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Only 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:40PMPRESS RELEASE: THE BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, whose alumni include Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen) and Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal), is acce…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:42PMIt was a tough seven days on Broadway — except for Dear Evan Hansen and a few perennial tourist draws. With July 4 falling on a Tuesday and many locals away, Hello, Dolly!, A Bronx …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:10PMThere’s nothing like a closing notice to get playgoers’ attention. Sustaining that isn’t easy. Indecent grosses soared 60 percent to $606,000 last week, according to data f…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:14PMThe Tony Awards delivered at the box office. Many winners at Radio City Music Hall on June 11 had their bestselling weeks to-date after being recognized for achievement and, in the case of m…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:46PMEric Falkenstein, who helped finance the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club revival of August Wilson’s Jitney, is trying to give it another life on Broadway in a commercial production. &…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:57PMANALYSIS: Kevin Spacey opened the 71st annual Tony Awards as Evan Hansen in a goofy polo shirt and cast around his left arm. It ended moments after an acceptance speech by Dear Evan Hanse…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:37AMEXCLUSIVE: The 71st annual Tony Awards may be the site of a Broadway rebellion. On Sunday, the Tonys — a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and Broadway League — is s…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:21AM“Like Christmas Day and sex with supermodels, Broadway seasons are often far more exciting during the anticipation stage.” So began Jess Cagle’s December 1997 review of Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:48PMEXCLUSIVE: The producers of Rebecca aren’t giving up on their four-and-a-half-year campaign to force their former press agent to pay for the musical’s collapse. Rebecca Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:40PMBroadway producers and investors made the brave decision to present several new plays without stars this past season. Audiences haven’t followed. Grosses for straight plays (non-mus…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:55PMEven if Broadway took this week off, 2016-17 would still surpass last season’s record grosses. After 51 weeks, Broadway has sold $1.415 billion of tickets, vs. $1.373 billion for all…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:13PMIn a court battle over money and reputations, the partnership that sought to bring Rebecca the Musical to Broadway won a token $90,000 damage award against its former press agent and failed …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PMRebecca Broadway LP vs. Marc Thibodeau went to the jury this afternoon after two weeks of testimony. The five women and one man had a range of information requests out of the gate in order t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:47PMAt 2:30 pm, Marc Thibodeau was a courageous truth teller. By 4 pm he was a destructive liar. Closing statements at the Rebecca civil trial this afternoon painted opposing pictures of its f…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:23PMEXCLUSIVE: The email was sent at 8:21 am Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Subject line: “Confidential.” “Have you ever Googled Mark Hotton Long Island?” wrote Marc Thibodeau…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:21PMEXCLUSIVE: On Sept. 27, 2012, four days before Rebecca the Musical was to begin rehearsals, it sold 27 tickets. The day’s “wrap,” or sales, was $2,952.50, according to…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PMThe Tony Award for best musical is commercially valuable, but what about nominations for plays? The next few weeks will test how much theatergoers care, with three of the four best play nom…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:47AMNatasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Hello, Dolly! and A Doll’s House, Part 2 got the most Tony Award nominations this morning in their respective categories. Natasha compete…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:06AMProducer Ben Sprecher broke down on the stand today at the Rebecca civil trial in lower Manhattan, while recounting being forced to shutter the $12 million musical on the eve of its first …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:02PMProducer Ben Sprecher’s 11-year quest to bring Rebecca the Musical to Broadway is over. Last year, he lost the license to produce the show and owes his investors about $5.5 million, h…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:29PMEaster week was flush for Broadway’s flashiest star vehicles and dismal for serious new plays, Pulitzer Prize notwithstanding. Two Scott Rudin productions in previews tell the story:…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:03PMBroadway plays struggle while musicals sell well ahead of Tony Award nominations
SOURCE: Crain's at 06:56PMOslo arrives with a rare asset for a play this season: strong pre-Broadway reviews from a working New York Times critic. Ben Brantley called J.T. Rogers’ drama about the 1993 accord …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:36PMOne of the season’s most anticipated musical revivals, the Scott Rudin-produced Hello, Dolly!, got off to a fast start in Broadway’s top-selling and best-attended week of the year…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:57PMStarry musicals got off to a strong start in what was the industry’s best seven days since the first week of the year. Sales were $27.7 million, up 16 percent from the week before a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:25PMSunday in the Park with George, which began a more experimental phase for Stephen Sondheim when the musical debuted off-Broadway in 1983, is doing big business in its latest go-round. Sa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:34PMAmid the commotion over the New York Times review of the Encores! revival of Big River revolving around context and criticism, the nonprofit Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Ameri…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:57AMIn an unusual reversal caused by the departure of its No. 2 theater critic, the New York Times relinquished its support of Significant Other once it arrived on Broadway. What Charles Isher…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:47AMEXCLUSIVE: With a search underway to fill one of the highest-profile jobs in theater criticism, influential playwrights are pressing for diversity. They’re among more than 800 i…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:54PMINTERVIEW: Is the moderately successful commercial Broadway production in danger of extinction? “There are still many shows doing exceptionally well, but it seems there are more show…
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