Connection migrating to larger venue?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 19th, 2008

The man behind Boston’s Comedy Connection is bugging out of his current location… maybe. There’s this, from an article in the Boston Globe’s Business section:

Comedy Connection owner Bill Blumenreich will lease the shuttered Wilbur Theatre in Boston’s Theater District for live theatrical shows– or possibly as new space for his club, now located at Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

The Female Half recalls performing there, in 1992 or so, when the Connection folks opened up a room in the basement of the Wilbur and called it Duck Soup. Back when the area had three clubs within sight of each other (The Connection in the bottom of the Charles Playhouse, Nicks just up Warrenton St. and Duck Soup across the way). Blumenreich seems less than happy with his lease at Faneuil Hall:

Blumenreich declined to talk about his situation in Faneuil Hall, but in 2006 he told the Globe: “Twenty-five years ago, people were dying to get into Faneuil Hall. Today, people are dying to get out.” His comedy club lease expires in a few months.

We will tell you this: It’s wicked expensive to pahk thea!

Good to see a club owner responding to the theater trend by… buying a theater!

H/T to alert reader Don Munro for hipping us to this article!

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