YIPPEE BROADWAY FANS!!!! New York Broadway Tours are getting our festive spirits up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade just 15 DAYS AWAY!! 100 years of balloons, floats, marching bands, celebrities, Santa, and of course our favorite iconic Broadway performances!!! Our TOP 30 BROADWAY AT MACY’S COUNTDOWN continues with more musical showstopper that has happened live from New York’s MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET.
At # 15 on our countdown…. Wait!!! We just wanted to take a moment once again to see how incredible the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is being a family-friendly event for all ages. There’s so much that happens during the iconic march from Central Park all the way to Macy’s in Herald Square. Of course we got the floats, balloons, marching bands, celebrities but also some really fun characters from clowns, to explorers, and even some magical whimsical characters. Speaking of whimsical characters, we’ve even had an incredible share of them that have even taken center stage on the Great White Way. The greatest one was iconic characters that were created by the unique genius children’s book writer by the name of Dr. Seuss. This is Seussical – The Musical!! The show features a score and book by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty.
From the 2000 telecast, Tony nominee Kevin Chamberlin as “Horton The Elephant” and the incredible gang of crazy characters from your favorite Dr. Seuss stories take over Herald Square with a performance of the show-stopping BIGGEST BLAME FOOL.
SEUSSICAL was conceived by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty in the 90’s in creating a musical tribute to the works of Dr. Seuss. In went through early stages of readings and workshops in 1999. Reviews from the early reading were positive setting off a bidding battle to have the show fully produced and go directly onto the New York stage.
It had its world Premiere pre-Broadway tryout out in Boston, Massachusetts in the Fall of 2000 playing the Colonial Theatre. Early critics PANNED the entire show as a “disorganized mess” shoving many Dr. Seuss stories in one production. Following its Boston run, many parts of the show went through various changes with the storyline and songs.
SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL officially made its Broadway debut at the Richard Rodgers Theatre a few months into the Fall of 2000 where it ran for only for a complete total of 232 PERFORMANCES. The reviews were mixed to negative. The score was praised but the book was considered as a trouble over stuffed misfire.
Tickets sales were tanking despite it being a fun show for kids. Eventually. This led SEUSSICAL to have a full lineup of celebrity “Stunt Casting” which gave the show horrible backlash. Even with the frequent “Stunt Casting”, the show continued to flop at the Box Office and closing right away.
Following the final performance, the producers lost over $11 millions it failed to keep the ticket sales alive making it the worst financial flops in Broadway History.
Under the direction of Frank Galati and choreography by Kathleen Marshall, the cast was led by….
Kevin Chamberlin as “Horton The Elephant”,
David Shiner (later Rosie O’Donnell and Cathy Rigby) as “The Cat in the Hat”,
Janine LaManna as “Gertude McFuzz”,
Michelle Pawk as “Mayzie LaBird”,
Anthony Blair Hall (later Andrew Keenan-Bolger and the late Aaron Carter) as “Jojo”,
and more.
It only received 1 nominations at the Tony Awards in 2001 for BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL (for Kevin Chamberlin). However, the category was lost.
Following its short lived Broadway life, SEUSSICAL began a life touring all across North America and eventually a brief limited 90 minute abrieved version Off Broadway by Theatreworks USA at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2007. It later made its later arrival in London’s West End debut in 2012. Today, is a popular show performed in schools, community, and regional theaters around the world.
Who is feeling like a WHO or any of the notable SEUSS characters after that performance?
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WATCH SEUSSICAL’S PERFORMANCE HERE
https://youtu.be/zVxueCPmdVE?is=5IC59fBWS6S3GvfO
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