Producer Hunter Arnold says the production found itself in “the worst-case scenario” mere weeks before previews were set to begin.
s marquee signage was just days away from going up at the James Earl Jones.“The first thing that I said to the company in the room that day, very honestly, was that this was the most terrible thing I’ve ever had to do in my professional career,” the producer Hunter Arnold says. On March 16, he called in the cast and crew of the upcoming Broadway playto convey the worst news possible. The show, slated to begin previews on April 3 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, would not go on.
“They did provide us a list,” Arnold says. “Of course we wanted their list.” But from his perspective, it was not nearly enough. “I’ve been doing this for a long time and know all of the players in the space. Just looking at the list, it was obvious that it was insufficient in scale, but more importantly, it was not a viable list to help our situation.”
Meanwhile, Arnold, Yeoburn, and Julyan were in a mad dash to find new money. “We started the process of immediately looking for new, large, additional investors pretty much the moment that they indicated they wouldn’t fulfill their obligations,” Arnold says. “But it wasn’t until maybe a day and a half or two days later that we understood that they had virtually nothing coming in.
The producers who were left, meanwhile, set themselves a deadline of 7:00 p.m. on March 15. By that Wednesday, Arnold says, they would face “accumulating expenditures on the payroll side but also the preparation to start moving into the theater.” The next day, Thursday, they would have to commit to starting the tech process. “Once you do that, that’s another huge chunk of money. So we just knew that if we couldn’t comfortably say to the SchubertsWe had to raise the white flag.
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