Broadway News and Reviews from REAL Theatergoers, Where every seat in the house gets heard
With the recent success of Les Miserables, the movie musical is alive and well. The Academy Awards recently celebrated the last decade of great movie musicals, however, not all endeavors are so fruitful. Let’s hope the upcoming adaptation of The Last Five Years, starring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick will do a little [...]
Spring is in the air and Broadway loves the breeze. Grosses are up for the week ending March 17, 2013. While long-running standards like Wicked, Lion King and The Book of Mormon continue to dominated the Broadway box office, audiences came in droves to see the new musical Motown. Only in its first [...]
Grosses are up a bit for the week ending March 10, 2013 in part due to the new play by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy, which took more than $1 million for its first full week of previews. Matilda got off to a decent start, as well, for its first [...]
After 334 week on Broadway and a total gross of $294,558,629, Disney’s Mary Poppins has officially closed. In its final week, the beloved show danced (or flew a magical umbrella) into the top five, grossing more than $1 million and played to a capacity of 97%. Barry Manilow completed his Broadway run, grossing [...]
The Lion King claimed the top spot for the week ending February 24, 2013. Unfortunately, overall Broadway grosses dropped and there are only 6 productions in the millionaire club this week, down from 7. Picnic played its final performance, closing out its run with $331, 975 for the week ending and $2,409,844 total [...]
Broadway Bounces Back After Snow Storm After last week’s low grosses due to Winter Storm Nemo, Broadway recovered with high numbers for the week ending February 17. Wicked came out on top after several weeks of trailing Book of Mormon. And seven shows entered the millionaire club, up from last week’s four. Amongst those [...]
New York City was covered in a blanket of white over the weekend and unfortunately, Broadway suffered. Soft sales were reported across the board for the week ending February 10, 2013. Only four shows were able to make their way into the millionaire club; Spider-man just barely made the cut with $1,002,910. The [...]
The Book of Mormon nabs the top spot for the week ending January 27, 2013. The production played to its normal standing room only crowds, with an average ticket price of $186.92 (by far the most expensive ticket of the Broadway bunch), adding up to a whopping $1.6 million total gross. Joining the [...]
Wicked took the top spot for the week ending January 20, 2013. And Broadway said goodbye to both Glengarry Glen Ross and Peter and the Starcatcher. In its final week, Glengarry, starring Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale, took in more than $1 million. Starcatcher played a more modest final week, grossing just more [...]
The Book of Mormon is back in the top spot at the box office for the week ending January 13. Longtime favorites The Lion King and Wicked follow with Spider-man and Once rounding out the top five. Once, last year’s Tony Award winning Best Musical, played to a full house, a w hopping [...]
