iSondheim out, Jacques Brel in at Alliance
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Citing the current economic climate, the Alliance Theatre has announced the cancellation of the world premiere musical iSOndheim. The new multimedia musical revue of musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim would have closed out the theater’s 40th season. I’ll let the press release explain what went wrong:
The production was cancelled because of difficulties encountered by the commercial producers attached to the project, the Frankel/Viertel/Baruch/Routh group, in raising the necessary funds for the multi-media musical revue of Sondheim’s life and career.
A representative of the group said, “The show’s extensive technical requirements for film and multi-media projection required raising, what proved to be, an extraordinarily large amount of additional money; millions, actually, which was simply unavailable for a non-commercial production in the current economic climate. We regret the situation as the Alliance Theatre was ready, willing and able to fulfill their commitments for financing and infrastructure to stage this production. We intend to produce the show at another date.”
