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Broadway demos-female, white, 41 years old, a U.S. resident whose household rakes in $276,465 a year!!
 Dec 11 2025, 06:12:25 AM

SteveSanders said: "Does the actual study, instead of this article's highlights, reveal mean data instead of just average figures? That would be particularly useful for several of the figures."

Mean or median?


Into the Woods - The Bridge, London
 Dec 11 2025, 04:31:02 AM

Play Esq. said: "Looking to book a second performance. For those who have seen, can you let me know what the sight lines are like on stage right or left at row B. It's designated as restricted."

I haven't sat there, but from what I saw and what I can read from comments (I was interested because they seem like excellent value), you will still see a lot/most of the show when it happens downstage but the stage is VERY deep so I'm guessing a lot of the upstag


Into the Woods - The Bridge, London
 Dec 10 2025, 01:20:53 PM

I don't remember seeing a Snow White or Sleeping Beauty

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/7/25
 Dec 10 2025, 08:35:45 AM

Thanks that is good you paid attention to it so we can be sure I agree then from what you described it does look like there is a little bit of an impact which is cool for Nicholas C. 


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/7/25
 Dec 10 2025, 05:18:27 AM

Ok so just so I understand were all of his absences actually pre scheduled? 


& JULIET Replacement Casting
 Dec 10 2025, 03:03:19 AM

EDSOSLO858 said: "Miriam-Teak Lee is in New York and finally got to see the show last night!

(It's really a shame what happened to her voice after the 2019 Manchester run.)
"

Can you talk to me more about Miriam-Teak's voice? 

My journey with the show is I saw it first in London with an understudy and to be honest I thought it was cringe and ridiculous. Then, I saw Miriam and suddenly the whole world changed for me - she had so m


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/7/25
 Dec 10 2025, 02:59:25 AM

"hat's not a go at Nik who's fantastic hes just not as big a star ( yet)  but even him being out made a difference last week."

Can we be sure of that? An earlier suggestion was that grosses are always a little depressed this time of year. Did anyone see a sizeable return line at Chess last week? Even though the numbers are only slightly depressed at that size over only a few performances you would definitely see a line of people getting a refund it


What revivals were flops but then later revivals become hits?
 Dec 10 2025, 02:54:02 AM

EricMontreal22 said: "And I admit, I'm not even sure how to gauge if the past two Sunday in the Park revivals were successful or not... The 2008 was a limited engagement,so does that count? (Another Sondheim show, Company's first revival was also a Roundabout limited engagement that almost transferred but... didn't) And the 2017 Gylenhaal revival was also a limited run that obviously sold well during that limited time but...

(I guess this is where answers to the original question get complicated.)
"

The 2017 Sunday in the Park with George revival recouped after just 56 performances or 7 weeks. WOW. And that was only in 2017.......I'm guessing today it would take months. 

I do remember at the time it had the highest grossing weeks of any Sondheim musical ever on Broadway (the Bernadette Follies actually previously had the record for highest week, but that was a much larger theatre and the success was short lived). 

https://playbill.com/article/sunday-in-the-park-with-george-starring-jake-gyllenhaal-will-be-preserved-on-a-cast-recording

Scanning the Sunday (2008) grosses, we can be certain the 2017 revival was more financially successful so it KIND of counts in a roundabout way, even though it probably isn't fair to compare a not-for-profit to a A-list star commercial broadway. 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/SUNDAY-IN-THE-PARK-WITH-GEORGE


THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES To Close January 4, 2026
 Dec 9 2025, 05:01:11 PM

Sunset still earned more than half of its investment back, won multiple Tonys, had some brief cultural impact and had many, many weeks of good business all of which QoV could only dream of. So I guess it depends on what you mean by decent but let’s not pretend it was a catastrophic failure. This is also in an environment where now almost no musicals make a profit on Broadway. 


What revivals were flops but then later revivals become hits?
 Dec 9 2025, 09:57:06 AM

fashionguru_23 said: "There is the age-old question of defining a flop and a hit. I would strongly disagree that Ragtime was a flop, but to each their own.

Merrily We Roll Along, to a certain point Follies (the 2012 revival was the first Sondheim show to gross over a million dollars in one week), the 1990's revival of She Loves Me ran longer that the original production by 52 performances.
"

I mean if a revival is a flop (so 2009/2010 Ragtime vs now, al


What revivals were flops but then later revivals become hits?
 Dec 9 2025, 02:24:04 AM

There must be some other examples of this but it's striking how successful RAGTIME is now compared to the previous revival. This can only be a good thing because it means that even if there are revival flops people can always point to Ragtime as an example of why they could try again (so for example maybe someone will finally do the Audra Follies). The same way people can always point to Maybe Happy Ending to say that the 'little show that could' can turn things around. 


Paddington Bway Transfer Possible?
 Dec 9 2025, 02:20:54 AM

" There was no buzz about Paddington until the first performance and Paddington as the character with a reporter on the news, then it went mental."

It's wild to think - and you're so right. There was barely any buzz. It was easy to get a ticket before performances started, no one was really sure if this was something to be excited about or not. I wonder if the producers were actually a bit nervous about it. Then suddenly 1 performance and it's a


Into the Woods - The Bridge, London
 Dec 9 2025, 02:16:56 AM

This almost looks like a capture from a film not a stage production. Truly stunning. 


Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
 Dec 8 2025, 02:20:44 PM

I don't think you can pretend that there was ever an option for her 'coming back to Broadway'. I suspect she is just taking what opportunities are available to her. 


RAGTIME 2025 Reviews
 Dec 8 2025, 01:19:19 PM

Does anyone know why in Feb and March there are a few dates without a Saturday matinee?


NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs
 Dec 7 2025, 02:12:00 AM

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NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs
 Dec 7 2025, 02:11:33 AM

Thank you, I wasn't sure if Sutton was just being Sutton and making things up again Arnold based on this event (appears so) or if there was anything truthful to what they are saying. I mean, it could still be true but I don't think you can infer anything about that from this event. 


NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs
 Dec 6 2025, 03:47:17 PM

Does he have a substance use disorder? Is this public knowledge? 

 


NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs
 Dec 5 2025, 12:03:29 PM

ColorTheHours048 said: "Dude’sa dummy, but he’sultimately going to be just fine (and write a terrible “play” about it)."

WE END UP BEING THE TRUE VICTIMS OF THIS CRIME!!!


LMM:
 Dec 5 2025, 05:25:06 AM

I also found it a little cringe but to be honest if there was an equivalent today surely it would be him? Though he doesn’t quite have the same volume of shows and is clearly over indexed on Hamilton. 

Love the commentary around Liza here. 

As for the comment on am I over reading or taking something a lot more serious than it intends to be? Yes obviously I am there is a reason I posted that GIF. I have no problem focussing my time on things that don’t reall


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