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Saturday, October 27, 2001 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The producers of "The Producers" defended their new ticket prices as an attack on scalpers, but the reviews of the plan were mixed. ![]() ![]() In yet another sign that Broadway seems bent on pricing itself beyond the reach of all but the richest theatergoers, the producers of "The Producers" yesterday said they were jacking up their top ticket price to $480. ![]() ![]() You can see a lot of theater for the price of a VIP ticket to "The Producers." A whole week's worth, in fact - both on and off Broadway. ![]() ![]() Jennifer Jason Leigh is the name-brand addition to the "Proof" cast, an inspired choice to follow Mary-Louise Parker in the central role of Catherine. ![]() ![]() posted at 10/27/2001 07:48:45 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Friday, October 26, 2001 Okay, lets step back an analyze what is happening here. At current ticket prices, The Producer max gross is just over $1 million a week. With the increase of the select ticket prices, here is the math: 50 tickets per show x $300 (the increase above the normal $100/per, not including $80 commission) x 8 (shows per week) = $120,000 in possible additional gross per week. $120K per week is Much Ado About Nothing. The revenue to "the people who created the show" works out to a SHARED $14,400/sold out week between the creators. (Writers generally get 6% gross, various other percentages are given out for directors, stars, designers, etc... usually not to exceed 12%) So, what happens to the other approximately $105,600? It goes to the investors. I think that investors deserve whatever they can make on a Broadway show. But to mask it in a statement that is suppose to protect creatives, is amusing. If the theatre owners/producers want to really address scalping, go to the source, don't raise prices. Where the hell are the scalpers getting the tickets? You better start looking inward first before you make such self righteous statements and policy changes. Scalpers get their tickets from the same source. They buy them from the producers. ![]() ![]() By MICHAEL RIEDEL LINCOLN Center Theater has pulled a promising new musical from its spring lineup because the writer's ex-wife has threatened legal action.Jason Robert Brown's "The Last Five Years," based loosely upon his short-lived marriage to Theresa O'Neill, is about an ambitious Jewish writer who weds a nice Irish-Catholic actress. Their marriage unravels when his career takes off and hers does not. I keep hearing that the delay has very little to do with JRB's ex. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Max Bialystock says, "Wow-WOW-wow-wow." ![]() ![]() posted at 10/26/2001 01:20:10 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two big talents, choreographer Susan Stroman and composer Harry Connick Jr., have produced a limp and lugubrious musical. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an effort to cut into the market of scalpers, the producers of "The Producers" will set aside seats every show and charge an unprecedented $480 a ticket. Is any show, even The Producers, worth $480 a ticket? Take it away, James. ![]() ![]() posted at 10/26/2001 05:44:52 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Thursday, October 25, 2001 ![]() ![]() posted at 10/25/2001 04:41:52 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link ![]() ![]() M'max rounding out cast of bigscreen version of B'Way play Queen Latifah will join the cast of "Chicago," the film version of the Broadway musical alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger. Latifah will play matron Mama Morton. ![]() ![]() 'Madness' set to close on Oct. 28 ![]() ![]() Susan Stroman directed the musical version of "Therese Raquin" with a score by Harry Connick Jr. ![]() ![]() A monthlong memorial event for the survivors and victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks takes place at C.U.A.N.D.O., a community arts building that is itself in danger of demolition. ![]() ![]() She'll play Nellie Forbush in the Royal National Theatre production, starting previews Dec. 3 ![]() ![]() Don Cheadle (Traffic) and Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat) will star in the Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog. ![]() ![]() Thumbs is the latest work from the author of the Tony-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. ![]() ![]() Ensemble member Martha Plimpton makes directorial debut ![]() ![]() Developed at the O'Neill Center this past summer, the musical is headed up the Connecticut River, possibly en route to Broadway ![]() ![]() Floating Box's score draws from jazz, blues, rock, samba, Chinese opera, Gregorian chants and showtunes ![]() ![]() A battle is brewing over what Boston venue will get the Cats tour. The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, which is scheduled to present Cats at the Shubert Theatre in January, filed ch...[Read More] ![]() ![]() Broadway producers are giving back some or all of the money they saved during these weeks of concessions. Accordin...[Read More] ![]() ![]() After weeks of speculation (which Ken Mandelbaum reported on October 8), Summer of '42 is set to open at off-...[Read More] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 10/25/2001 06:10:19 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, October 24, 2001 ![]() ![]()
posted at 10/24/2001 12:11:26 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() Reefer Madness, the campy off-Broadway musical based on the 1936 "scare film" of the same name, will play is final performance this Sunday, October 28, a box office representative confirmed to...[Read More] ![]() ![]() With 25 shows now on the boards, Broadway box offices are going strong. As usual, serious dramas are a harder sell than feel-good musicals. The season�s two new revivals, Hedda Gabler and Da...[Read More] ![]() ![]() Broadway favorite Sherie Rene Scott has just inked a development deal with NBC. �I basically want the opportunity to...[Read More] ![]() ![]() Developed at the O'Neill Center this past summer, the musical is headed up the Connecticut River, possibly en route to Broadway ![]() ![]() The show will be presented under the auspices of the producers of Rent, which is based on the opera ![]() ![]() She'll play the Merman role in the Cole Porter musical revival ![]() ![]() Post-attack climate puts kibosh on 3 dates "The Car Man" tour is about to run out of gas. Wrapping up a limited nine-week run at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theater, Matthew Bourne's retooling of Bizet's "Carmen" will play its final North American performance at UC Berkeley on Nov. 3. It opens there Tuesday. ![]() ![]() H'wood Aussies come home for shows ![]() ![]() B'way producers refund concession coin ![]() ![]() Key stagings highlight Irish scribe's diversity ![]() ![]() MICHAEL Frayn, the celebrated British playwright, recalls "with appalling clarity" the first and last time he acted in a play. ![]() ![]() THE two largest donors to the Public Theater have resigned from its board, raising questions about the tenure of artistic director George C. Wolfe. I had spoken about financial disasters at The Public under Wolfe and their ramifications back in January 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 10/24/2001 08:47:15 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, October 23, 2001 ![]() ![]() Resignations present the often turbulent Joseph Papp Public Theater with one of its most pointed crises in years. ![]() ![]() The executive, Marshall Rose, said he was stepping down because he had completed his work on a master plan. ![]() ![]() Great, just what Broadway needs now... (thanks to Tim and Catherine for the link) ![]() ![]() Event to be Monday at Gotham's Union Club 10/22/01 5:39pm Waterford, Conn.'s 37-year-old Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and its founding executive director George C. White, who retired at the beginning of this year, will be feted at a benefit gala in New York Monday. ![]() ![]() Musicals help Broadway B.O. bounce back ![]() ![]() Gilbert Gottfried will be a guest Narrator of The Rocky Horror Show from November 13 through November 18, a production spokes...[Read More] Guess that Up All Night gig did not work out so well... ![]() ![]() As Ken Mandelbaum mentioned on August 14, The Road to Hollywood will be presented by Goodspeed Musicals next...[Read More] ![]() ![]() She'll play the Merman role in the Cole Porter musical revival ![]() ![]() It's the source of a new music theater piece from the creators of Running Man that debuts in December. ![]() ![]() In which the master monologuist reworks and returns to the solo performance piece that made him famous. ![]() ![]() Atlantic Theatre Company member Kate Blumberg takes over for actress/playwright Pamela Gien who has since brought the play to London and her native South Africa. ![]() ![]() A film biography of the prolific Broadway composer includes a goldmine of archival footage ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Great to see the holiday CD will once again be made. I hope the producers see fit to donate all the proceeds rather than make a huge profit for themselves and donate part of the proceeds as they have done in year's past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THERE'S a humongous, 27-foot-wide pool in the center of the stage, around which - and, whenever possible, in which - characters cavort. It has no relation to the stories being told. It's big and it's there. ![]() ![]() IF ratings are any indication, we seem to be witnessing the death of reality TV. ![]() ![]() RADIO giant Premiere Networks is charging its listeners to listen to its biggest stars on the Internet - infuriating the likes of Art Bell and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. ![]() ![]() THOSE aren't commercial breaks you're seeing during the movies on American Movie Classics - they're INTERMISSIONS. posted at 10/23/2001 08:49:33 AM by James Marino | Item Link Monday, October 22, 2001 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 10/22/2001 11:27:42 AM by James Marino | Item Link Q: Have you heard what Osama bin Laden is going to be for Halloween? A: Dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() How was Fynsworth Alley able to issue a CD of the original cast recording of Subways Are For Sleeping? And what will happen to Fynsworth now that its two chief officers are departing? I was wondering if websites that have Fynsworth Alley advertising would run a story about the record label's demise... Bravo to Michael Portantiere for getting the story out there. As you may have noticed, I have removed the links to Fynsworth Alley on the music navbar on the right. Now that Bruce Kimmel and David Levy have been removed from the company, I see no reason to support Fynsworth Alley. I hope you feel the same. In support of what Bruce (and David) have done, and I am sure will continue to do for the the theatre community, please do not purchase anything from Fynsworth Alley. Thanks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Natascha Diaz plays the Debra Winger role of Sissy. ![]() ![]() She'll play the Merman role in the Cole Porter musical revival ![]() ![]() Click here for a list of stops. Actors' Equity Association urges boycott. ![]() ![]() Wallace is the subject of a major retrospective in Atlanta, where twelve theatres will produce her works as part of the Naomi Wallace Festival October through mid-November ![]() ![]() Musical Theatre Works presents Musical Theatre Month ![]() ![]() The Public Theater's new production of Othello begins Nov. 13 in the Anspacher Theater. Othello will mark Hughes' first major production since he left the Long Wharf Theater. ![]() ![]() Another sign of the Apocalypse: WWF doing "theatre" in Times Square... ![]() ![]() "Money makes the world go round..." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The classical recording industry seems to be collapsing, and aggrieved music lovers are looking for someone to blame. This is from yesterday's Times. Although it is speaking of classical, it is very much similar to the story of musical theatre recording. ![]() ![]() The performers got applause at "The Concert for New York City," but shouting and standing ovations greeted uniformed workers and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. ![]() ![]() "It's all a long, long time ago," writes Arthur Miller about "Focus." "Only now, after nearly 60 years, does some of the feel of that time begin to return." ![]() ![]() ABC's cancellation of "The Runner" suggests that such reality television programs may have run their course. Does this balance out the WWF thing? ![]() ![]() Madison Square Garden played host to a virtual "who's who of the entertainment industry" during a concert benefit to raise money for relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack. ![]() ![]() Amy Sedaris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marylouise Burke and Kristine Nielsen are the fearless actresses in the dark comedy, "Wonder of the World." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guy-Tip of the Day: Trying to iron a shirt while it is on you WILL NOT save you any time in the morning. posted at 10/22/2001 07:29:45 AM by James Marino | Item Link Sunday, October 21, 2001 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone else afraid of this play? ![]() ![]() Ringwald ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 10/21/2001 08:50:07 AM by the other James | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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