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INTERVIEW: The last five weeks have been busy for Jason Robert Brown, the 48-year-old composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator and performer. There was an acclaimed Encores! run of his 199…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:33PMSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO — The main event here: 502 Ford Mustangs, both late-model show cars and immaculately restored classics. The 30th-annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup compe…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:17PMThere’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikva and Petah Tikva. The Band’s Visit, a drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and ennui of everyday life, won 10 T…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:46AMThere’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikvva and Petah Tikvah. The Band’s Visit, a quietly political drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and banality of e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:23PMEXCLUSIVE: On Broadway, selling out isn’t a prerequisite for cleaning up. The Band’s Visit, which is considered a lock for best new musical at the Tony Awards tomorrow, has repai…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Conventional wisdom dictates that a new play needs an off-Broadway or out-of-town tryout before it’s Broadway-ready — unless it’s by David Mamet or stars Bette M…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:51PMEXCLUSIVE: Jed Bernstein, a Broadway producer and former leader of the industry’s trade association, earned $3.3 million in pay and benefits during the 27 months he ran Lincoln Center…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:09PMThe Broadway season that ended on Sunday was strong but not stellar. Overall attendance: up 4 percent to 13.8 million, according to the Broadway League. Grosses rose 17 percent, to $1.7 bill…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:06PMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle voted not to give a prize for best musical this season, implicitly endorsing The Band’s Visit‘s Tony Award ambitions and rejecting Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:41PMBEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:07PMEXCLUSIVE: Maybe Frozen isn’t critic-proof after all. Following mixed reviews and turmoil in the secondary market, Disney has been slashing prices for the musical — one of the mo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:44PMLAST OF A SERIES: When the cast of Hamilton visited the White House on March 14, 2016, President Obama joked that the musical was the only thing he and Dick Cheney agreed on. The excursion…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:18PMSECOND IN A SERIES: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop juggernaut is the first single-author show to win a Tony Award for best new musical since Jonathan Larson’s Rent, in 1996. With …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:25PMPART ONE OF A SERIES: Nearly three years after storming Broadway, Hamilton remains unrivaled in its moneymaking. The original production, which began previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:44AMEvery year there’s New Year’s week, when the city is packed with tourists and some shows present nine performances, and every other week. Last week was a record for the latter. B…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:37PMEXCLUSIVE: This season, every night is kids’ night on Broadway. While theatergoers still pay up for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historical hip-hop, Broadway’s fastest-growing onst…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:00PMEXCLUSIVE: The Frozen fractals appear to be falling into place for Disney. Reviews aren’t out until the March 22 opening of Disney Theatrical Productions’ adaptation of the 2013…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:49PMDisney’s Frozen and Scott Rudin’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel performed promisingly in an otherwise wet and dismal week. Frozen was a near sellout, grossi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:29PMJeremy Gerard has left Deadline.com, the theater critic and reporter said in an email. Gerard said his contract was not renewed and he was told that Deadline, officially called Deadline Holl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:11PMEXCLUSIVE: A promising Broadway courtroom drama may be closing out of town. Scott Rudin and the University of the South have agreed in principle to settle the University’s lawsuit alle…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:16PMU.S. stocks aren’t the only market under pressure. Yesterday’s Super Bowl and the mid-Winter funk contributed to Broadway lowest grosses in four months. Sales last week dipped 10…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:47PMCasting directors could finance their own big-budget play or musical for what they may spend defending themselves against the Broadway League’s antitrust lawsuit. Merely complying wit…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:52PMCall it the Hamilton effect or just supply and demand. Producers of Waitress have raised the top ticket to $600 with pop stars Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz in the leading roles. That’…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:38PMThanks to ever-rising prices, 2017 ended on a frosty high note. It was Broadway’s best-selling year, at $1.64 billion; its top-grossing week — $50.4 million; and the best week fo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:51PMEXCLUSIVE: The year isn’t over, but it’s already demolishing records. As of Dec. 24, Broadway grosses for 2017 totaled $1.59 billion, vs. $1.37 billion for all of 2016, which had…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:15PMEXCLUSIVE: Don’t be shocked if Hamilton reports extra-huge holiday numbers. Tickets this week are going for a record $1,150. With the increase, Hamilton is the first on Broadway to se…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:48AMBroadway can be thankful for big-spending tourists, as grosses soared 11 percent from a year earlier in its bestselling Thanksgiving week ever. Among the musicals posting weekly records were…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PMThe girl with the lower back tattoo can put butts in seats. In its first full week of previews, Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower, starring Amy Schumer, grossed a cool $1 million, according…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:35PMEXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater could earn upwards of $10 million a year for helping to develop Hamilton: An American Musical. But don’t expect it to do anything flashy with the cash.…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:16PMThe $8 million-plus to bring The Band’s Visit to Broadway looks like money well spent, based on its first full week of previews. The David Yazbek and Itamar Moses musical set in a sle…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:43PMOnly Bruce Springsteen can overshadow Hamilton and Hello, Dolly! After just five performances, Springsteen’s mostly solo show at the Walter Kerr Theatre grossed $2.3 million, with an a…
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