![]() ![]() Fine-tuning a show outside of Gotham’s glare has become more important in days where musicals are progressively more expensive.īloggers and the Internet don’t allow for a completely insulated experience. Trying out a Broadway musical “out of town” is an old Broadway tradition and used to take place in cities like New Haven and Philadelphia. “And now everybody wants to be on the map.” “I think we were ahead of the curve in knowing that these would be things that would put us on the map,” said Fred Krohn, president of Historic Theatre Group, which manages the State, Orpheum and Pantages theaters in downtown Minneapolis and the guy who helped broker the “Lion King” residency. ![]() And Walt Disney Theatricals – the folks who brought “Lion King” to Minneapolis a decade ago – opted to road-test its newest musical, “The Little Mermaid,” in Denver this summer. “Young Frankenstein” wound up in Seattle. ![]() The producers of “Shrek” haven’t announced where they’ll take up residence in summer 2008, but it won’t be in St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts was on the short list to host the pre-Broadway version of a new musical based on the hit animated film “Shrek.” In Minneapolis, the Orpheum was one of the finalists to house this summer’s tryout of Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein.” It’s not that local theater folks aren’t trying. Paul have fallen to the second tier of American cities that can host pre-Broadway tryouts. But a decade later – with the long-lived and lucrative musical again taking up residence at the Orpheum Theatre – Minneapolis and St. Ten years ago, Twin Cities audiences were the first to see “The Lion King” before it moved to New York. ![]()
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