Not Broadway Bound

Neil Simon, Josh Grisetti and Noah Robbins.

The saddest news in New York is that the lovely new revival of BRIGHTEN BEACH MEMOIRS will close on November 1st after only 9 performances.  The reviews were mostly very good––good enough to make bright and exciting full page ads in The New York Times, but the advance is poor and people are not buying tickets.  This also means that BROADWAY BOUND will not open to play in repertory with the first play.  Moreover, the public will be robbed of what would have been an ideal performance from Josh Grisetti as older Jerome in the second play.  Grisetti burst forth on the New York theatre scene in the York Theatre production of ENTER LAUGHING and the announcement that he would be playing older Jerome was welcome indeed.  This news may be the first real example of the recession taking hold of Broadway, for up to now, things seemed to be going along swimmingly.