DEATH BECOMES HER Reviews Jul 10
2025, 01:44:19 PM
There's so many threads I don't check regularly and when I do check back in, I'm shocked at how weird they have gotten...
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Disney will launch North American tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2025 Jul 10
2025, 10:07:38 AM
I've always liked No Matter What as a song but its placement in the show doesn't work very well. Having a slow ballad like that as the second song dulls early momentum. But it is nice for developing why Belle would go through all that to save her father.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6/25 Jul 8
2025, 03:07:22 PM
BorisTomashevsky said: "Mr. Wormwood said: "BorisTomashevsky said: "Kad said: "Gypsy's average weekly gross was lower than all but one of Tammy Faye's full weekly grosses..."
Based on how farthe gross dropped, I suppose Gypsy isbasing that 57.81% capacity on the available-for-purchase seats, with the rear mezz and rear orchestra being closed. Which means the average audience size across the week must have been around 27% of a th
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6/25 Jul 8
2025, 02:54:12 PM
BorisTomashevsky said: "Kad said: "Gypsy's average weekly gross was lower than all but one of Tammy Faye's full weekly grosses..."
Based on how farthe gross dropped, I suppose Gypsy isbasing that 57.81% capacity on the available-for-purchase seats, with the rear mezz and rear orchestra being closed. Which means the average audience size across the week must have been around 27% of a that very big room."
I don't think that
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6/25 Jul 8
2025, 01:55:02 PM
Despite the narrative on here that NYC is a ghost town at 4th of July, these grosses are fine for the most part.
But yikes what a disaster for Gypsy. Obviously this show will not last past Audra and will probably be gone around Labor Day anyway.
Gonna be a tough time at Call Me Izzy while Jean Smart is out.
I feel like Hell's Kitchen is gonna be gone by the end of the year and I'm still keeping my eye on Mincemeat.
I'll be very curious to see how John P
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Popular revival musicals that will fall into obscurity Jul 8
2025, 11:28:01 AM
R&H is by no means obscure but they already aren't performed nearly as often in regional/community/high school theaters as they were 20 years ago.
I still think many of them will still get a Broadway revival every 20-30 years but shows like Oklahoma and South Pacific already aren't the staples they once were. Same with shows like The Pajama Game, Brigadoon, Lil Abner, Annie Get Your Gun - all once staples that are not done nearly as much anymore.
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Why Has Gypsy Never Been a Big Hit? Jul 6
2025, 07:41:57 PM
I think the simplest answer is it's the best example of a divide between people who are into theater and people who may attend theater but aren't "theater people." The first group of people attend a lot of theater, probably are involved in it themselves (whether professionally or in schools/community theaters), post on message boards and read books, etc. The latter group might attend in their own community or see a few Broadway shows but aren't theater needs, so to
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Reviews Jul 4
2025, 10:15:01 AM
I didn't see Dorian Gray but Snook is a class act through and through. Hope she comes back to Broadway in between what I'm sure will continue to be many TV and movie opportunities.
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Jonathan Groff in Just In Time Jul 4
2025, 09:38:07 AM
TarHeelAlan said: "For those that have seen the show: I'm looking to purchase a couple of the leastexpensive seats, which would be last row or next-to-last row. Would you advise the sides (200 series seats) or the end (100 series seats)?"
I was in the back row of the 100 seats towards the center and it was a great view. The actors have their backs to you occasionally on the small stage but I think that happens anywhere at points during the show. It's well wor
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Jonathan Groff in Just In Time Jul 2
2025, 06:00:21 PM
It's very, very hard to imagine the show continuing when Groff decides to leave. But I would guess it will run for as long as Groff wants to do the role.
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operIncident at Operation Mincemeat Jul 2
2025, 03:33:24 PM
Obviously there are people who feel this way in our country but I have a hard time believing they would be buying tickets to Operation Mincemeat on Broadway. I think the most likely explanation is a tone deaf person who was trying to be (and failing at) being funny.
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Jesse Green: The Best Theater Moments of 2025, So Far Jul 2
2025, 09:45:30 AM
I was coming here to joke that he forgot about his favorite musicals, Redwood and Smash.
And then I read the article and saw that he didn't. Sigh.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/29/25 Jul 1
2025, 06:00:53 PM
gibsons2 said: "Mr. Wormwood said: "With a lot of the unsurprising closings mostly done now or announced, the next ones to keep an eye on IMO are Gypsy and Mincemeat"
What makes you think that Mincemeat is the one to keep an eye on. It has one of the steadiest grosses from the beginning of its run. No highs, but no lows either, except tinyfluctuations. Why do you think it's in danger of closing?"
That's fair. I'm just specula
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/29/25 Jul 1
2025, 03:15:42 PM
OhHiii said: "
I still have my eye on Moulin Rouge. It's wild that that brand doesn't do better in the Summer months, but it needs to be grossing north of $1m to break even. I've been banging this drum (and admittedly have been wrong about Hadestown managing to stick it out), but I don't know how Moulin Rouge survives into 2026."
Despite seeming like a tourist show, Moulin Rouge always seems to sag a bit in the summer and do better off peak
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AUDRA GYPSY Reviews Jun 30
2025, 03:21:11 PM
Call_me_jorge said: "“ It’s already broadways worst week of the year."
That statement is not even a little bit true. Maybe it's a down week of the summer but certainly not the worst week of the year... have you seen January and September weeks?
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Curtain call video from 6/21? Jun 25
2025, 03:03:56 PM
witchoftheeast2 said: "abcd12 said: "Wayman_Wong said: "''PLEASE refit your headline and state JUST IN TIME.''
In this instance, Iagree with BrodyFosse123. Putting the name of the show in the headline would be more helpful and specific. Before I clicked onto this thread, I thought it might be referring to Cole Escola's final curtain call at ''Oh, Mary!''"
WHO (and I can not stress this enough) CARES
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Disney’s HERCULES will transfer to the West End in 2025 Jun 25
2025, 01:35:09 PM
TheatreFan4 said: "Kad said: "I thought Aladdin was a pretty uninspired and mediocre adaptation, lesser in every way to the movie, and yet here we are, over a decade later and it's still printing money. Should it transfer, I imagine Hercules would be the same."
I REALLY don't think anybody has an attachment to Hercules like that. Like yeah the movie made money, but it was on the otherside of the Disney Renaissance that people cared about.&qu
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Disney’s HERCULES will transfer to the West End in 2025 Jun 25
2025, 08:05:04 AM
I still think it will transfer to Broadway. The reception to the West End version is serviceable enough. Either way, it'll be a huge licensing player in a few years.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/22/25 Jun 24
2025, 06:25:10 PM
I see we need to have a lesson on anecdotes vs statistics...
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/22/25 Jun 24
2025, 02:07:41 PM
It's certainly not enough yet to be safe but Boop having its best week since April may have contributed to no closing announcement yet.
New high for Buena Vista and Just in Time
Cabaret seemed to benefit from the closing announcement.
Death Becomes Her not suffering at all from Hilty's leave of absence.
Harry Potter has recovered big time as the summer months kick in. Stranger Things has been looking better too.
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