From the Niagara Falls Review:
It was another bitter pill for local theatre buffs to swallow this week with the closure of ‘100 Years of Broadway.’
The lavish musical, which gathered several high-profile Broadway stars to sing their signature songs, closed at the Scotiabank Convention Centre Niagara last Sunday after just 12 performances. It was booked through Sept. 4.
Despite rave reviews from theatregoers, the show was drawing miniscule crowds – often 30 to 50 people in the 1,000-seat convention centre theatre.
I’ll bet if they (and the producers of Rent also) would have done one shred of advertising, someone might have shown up at their shows. That’s all I hear – “if we’d known these shows were on, we would have gone to see them”. Instead, they’ve given the city a black eye with all the free, bad publicity they’re getting now.
i was going to look in to coming to see RENT. too bad now.