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Sutton Ross said: "Just like with Heart of Rock and Roll(RIP), I received an email offering free tickets to QoV. They state "Do not request these tickets if you aren't going to show up" and blah blah blah. But it's still making a million a week so I don't getit, but it will be sticking around for the holidays definitely.

A lot of people want to see her in person, regardless of the material, so I get it."

Probably making $1MM

Diana Greenhouse said: "Wow good for The Queen of Versailles. Million dollar club for the second week in a row!! The positive word of mouth is starting to spread"

You are deluded, Flash.  That average ticket price, coupled with the vast spaces of unsold tickets in the near-term, do not lead me to believe that it is long for this world.  Given ticket inflation, the 'million dollar' club has become a meaningless term.

A thousand years ago, I re

In a million years, I would not have expected Tom Felton joining HP to have more than a minor positive impact on the box office.  Clearly, wrong.  I wonder what ticket purchasers think as they exit the theatre, given how tiny his role is.

Can't wait to see if Chess will be impacted by the critics reviews or will prve to be impervious.  Everyone I know who has seen it has loved it (that is admittedly only 8 other people) and have already purchased tix to see it again

I hope you are right because I think this is one of the three most 'thrilling' productions I have seen in the last decade, the others being Oklahoma (which I hated until the Daniel Fish production) and SB.  Since neither of the others returned their investment, I would like to see at least one do so.  Further, I won't be back in NYC until late May and want this to be around when I return.

I have to say that I expected more reviews like Sara Holdren's (it

I wonder if BroadwayWorld is getting kickbacks for their assessments of reviews.  The said that Vulture and NY Post are mixed, when they are clearly pans.

I am shocked about The NY Times review and the fact that the Chicago Tribune/Daily News reviews were positive.

It is terrible that I actively want this show to be a total disaster, but I think it is just so vile and can’t understand how anyone could give it a decent review, let alone a ‘critic’s pick&rsq

Clearly, people right now want to see Chess and don't want to see Queen very much.  Queen's average ticket price was less than Hadestown and Mormon.  Hopefully, Chess will still be playing to healthy audiences after the 'obsessed' (which include me) have largely seen it for the first time.

Even if it does not extend in January, it would be nice to see Ragtime have never played to an empty seat.  Hopefully, it will extend.

Having finally seen 'J

There is still time for a decent number of non-musicals to be announced for the reminder of the season.  How much more time can really pass before it is too late for a new musical to announce?

Based on what we are seeing so far, this is going to be one awful season for new musicals.  Versailles sucks; 2 Strangers is a very enjoyable musical with a little more depth that the title would suggest, but it is still not the stuff of best musicals.  Looking ahead, if they ever

Saw this this afternoon and wished I had seen Punch instead.  I will assume that I missed something because I am a male, but i also didn't see anything new.

I thought it was well acted...there was not a weak link in the cast.  My favorite performance, ironically, was by the woman who played the mother of four sons, probably the smallest role in the show.  

I was never bored, which is usually the case when I don't like or are indifferent to a straight

Saw this tonight.  I thought the overall performance was excellent although I do not remember the beginning of the first act (after the opening number) taking so long to get going.  The first 30 minutes seemed pretty slow to me.  Once past that, the show flew by.  A lot of positives, a couple f negatives (besides the slowish 30 minutes).

Couple of Observations:

The three leads deserve all the praise they have received.

Caissie Levy was

carlisle14 said: "KrupYou said: "How big a bump will Wicked get when part 2 movie released?"

Not a bunch of room for a bump. This is a show that is at 98%-100% weekly. Solid ticket prices already."

Unless I missed a week, Wicked has not had an empty seat since a few weeks before the movie opened.  The movie gave it a shot in the arm that I can only remember seeing once before, with Chicago.  Different case, however; Chicago was

kdogg36 said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "and yet the Hamiltons and Wickeds of the world are making obscene amounts of money"

Would Broadway theater even be a going concern at this pointwithout long-running moneymakers like those two (andLion King)?"I think there are people who still invest in hopes that the show will be the next big thing.  If you think about it, in addition to those, we have Chicago, BOM, Harry Potter, maybe MJ, Hadesto

That average ticket price for QofV is deadly.  I thought that KC fans would have frontloaded ticket sales for awhile..  Clearly that is not the case.  So, is QofV already an albatross or is KC (whose voice is still great and who still has a lot of presence) no longer capable of selling tickets in sufficient volume to justify leading a big, expensive musical?.  (Or is the real issue that, although well-named and liked, she has never really sold tickets.  (Clearly, Wick