On a bet that Hamilton will remain red hot after composer Lin-Manuel Miranda leaves the cast and a second company opens in Chicago, Broadway producers raised the top ticket price by $3…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:02PMEXCLUSIVE: Accepting the best musical Tony Award for The Book of Mormon in 2011, co-director and co-writer Trey Parker broke up the Beacon Theater audience by thanking “a co-writer who p…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:24PMUPDATE WITH DRAMA SALES DECLINE: The Broadway season ended on Sunday with record attendance and sales, thanks to Hamilton. But grosses for plays in 2015-16 retreated 27 percent as star…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:45PMBroadway’s poised to report its third consecutive season of record sales — by a nose. With the official 2015-16 season ending on Sunday, grosses are up 0.6 percent from a year earl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:55PMTony Award contenders often say it’s an honor to be nominated. For Bright Star, like any struggling nominee, it’s an expensive honor. Instead of potentially folding after ten sl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:06PMUPDATE to include Hamilton accord: As the cast of Hamilton looks forward to a portion of profits from the blockbuster, The Book of Mormon has paid its workshop actors about $3 millio…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:36PMA musical without musicians is an untested concept on Broadway. Janet B. Rosen, the freshman lead producer of In Transit, a long-gestating a cappella romantic comedy circling Broadway, says…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PMEXCLUSIVE: Hamilton, the Broadway blockbuster endorsed by the president and first lady, has repaid its investors. Two people with direct knowledge of the musical’s finances confir…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:23AMEXCLUSIVE: On September 15, 2008, hours after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the Roundabout Theatre Co. signed a lease to take over a third Broadway house. Given the expense of pr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:21AMEXCLUSIVE: The Last Ship, a failure on Broadway, was a hit for the Public Theater . In the fall of 2013, a year before the musical’s brief run at the Neil Simon Theatre, Sting pla…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:20AMThese days, type “Broadway tickets” in a web browser and it’s easy to get confused.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:40PMIn late August, a 32-year-old theater producer named Eva Price found herself in a lower-Manhattan Crate & Barrel talking on her mobile phone to Jerry Seinfeld.
SOURCE: noir.bloomberg.com at 05:58PMThere's something lovable about a woman who loves to play the horses -- unless she cares more for the horses than for you.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PMActors aren't the only ones having their ups and downs at “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PM`Compulsion' Review
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SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PMThe owners of 54 Below, a grotto nightclub that in a little more than a year has become a favorite of Broadway divas and night crawlers, have told potential investors they need $600,000 “i…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 06:35AMBroadway enters the final weekend of the 2012-2013 season with its worst attendance record in eight years, despite sold-out audiences for Tom Hanks, Bette Midler and a handful of hit musical…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 07:53AMEven after he leaves “Lucky Guy” on Broadway, Tom Hanks stands to earn as much as $20,000 a week. For his Broadway debut, Hanks, 56, will get 2 percent of ticket sales should producer…
SOURCE: Business Week at 01:50PMAs Sandy the hurricane swept up the East Coast, Sandy the canine star of “Annie” lay on a couch in upper Manhattan with a rope toy. “She’s been lounging all day,” said Dustin Hard…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 12:05PMEven with 8 million Twitter followers, pop star Ricky Martin couldn’t make “Evita” profitable. Undone by high weekly running costs, Broadway’s top-selling show to open in 2012 close…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 12:05PMTwo of Broadway’s biggest players in the growing market to sell tickets online have combined forces, two people with knowledge of the deal said today.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:17PMIf Sprecher doesn’t raise the minimum $12 million capitalization by year-end, he must return money “forthwith” to any investors who haven’t waived their right to a refund, according …
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:00PMProducers of the raucous Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" have gotten into a courtroom brawl with one of the industry’s most respected managers, disputing advice she gave them as a consulta…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 04:26PMBOOK OF MORMON books profits
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SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:41AMFeature about changing curtain times. Thanks, Philip
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:18AMWhen Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with a degree in English, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his musical-theat…
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