Broadway Box Office Slumps But Bruce Willis' Upticking 'Misery' Loves Company
Broadway’s brief mini-boom went bust last week, as the pre-Thanksgiving blues saw 15 shows drop $100K or more — in several cases a lot more — from the previous week. One sliver of moonlight fell on Misery, the Bruce Willis vehicle that opened to desultory reviews but still had a $78K spike, to $900K at the Shubert Organization-owned Broadhurst Theatre. That was a bit over 71 percent of gross potenti…