Why did the original Show Boat close?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Everyone says that it revolutionized musical theatre but if that's so why isn't it still running?

[Dollypop]

They had a very poor rush policy.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Don't you mean SB?

Actually letting people know what you're talking about is so 2003.

[trentsketch]

I heard the ushers were really rude so the fanboys only saw the show 5 times instead of 17.

[Dollypop]

Having seen the show, I can tell you that it didn't have a show curtain. Definitely reason for a short run in my book.

[PalJoey]

I heard Edna Mae Oliver was a total bitch at the stage door.

[tazber]

Basically the score sucked.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

The producers got into a big tussle with Jerome Kern over tweet seats, and they just couldn't work it out.

[Dollypop]

They didn't have color Playbills.

[tazber]

And Sutton Foster was all wrong for Queenie.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

I thought it would win 27 Tonys, but alas the Tonys wouldn't be invented for another quarter of a century. Like Chicago, it was ahead of its time.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Also, it didn't help that A Chorus Line opened 48 years later.

[pinoyidol2006]

I think that's a false causality. I wouldn't call a falling chandelier revolutionary, but Phantom of the Opera is still running...

[SNAFU]

Truth be told, their show curtain sucked and their SB coffee mugs and tee shirts looked cheap.

[Bettyboy72]

Someone done frew up on me from the balcuny.

[SNAFU]

Isn't dat where the darkies sit?

[Jon]

SNAFU for the win.

[aasjb4ever]

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Yeah.

[Huss417]

This is why I hate abbreviations. As it still says SB on the main board I first thought Sunset Boulevard and then Sugar Babies.

[howardbf]

I thought it was Son of a Bitch, just misspelled.

[twinbelters]

Is there going to be a soundtrack?

[followspot]

@morganajames HOW can you f#*k up Show Boat?? I fear musicianship is dead in musical theatre. And acting, for that matter. #horrified

It was pretty much downhill after that.