Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#1Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 6:23pm
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Grosses - March 26 - April 1
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#2re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 6:35pmSad to see Journey's End, Grey Gardens, and Company dwindling so much.
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#2re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 6:42pmC'mon Grey Gardens! I really want to see it this summer.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#3re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 6:56pm
Grey Gardens has run long enough that they're not going to cut and run a month before the Tony nominations. That being said, the producers better be willing to run a pretty ambitious campaign to win more than best actress and supporting actress.
Curtains having a good bump after an opening week that was stronger than assumed creates a wrinkle of its own. This is a case where a show with middling to postitive reviews could grow in admiration if the public responds.
This stuff is always a crapshoot, but fun to watch.
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 06:56 PM
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#4re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:24pmMary Louise Wilson isn't a sure thing, and wasn't Ebersole also out last week a lot?
#5re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:26pmI thought at this point both Ebersole and Wilson were both locks. I believe Ebersole was on vacation last week.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#6re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:28pmAnd GG is also gonna suffer a little now that the critics awards are starting, because Ebersole and Wilson and the show are ineligible for a lot, because of the nominations they recieved last season for the Playwright's run...
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#7re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:55pm
Christine is out this week, by the way.
Also-I mentioned somewhere else, but at the risk of threadjacking, I will do so here. Grey Gardens had better, as someone else said, drum up a campaign (in the style of Ave. Q!) to win some serious Tonys.
I do think and hope Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson will win their well-deserved Tonys in June. That said-it could get some other serious awards-score, book, director, musical (I happen to think it could get some of these. It does need them.)
I hate to see what Christine Ebersole's absence will do to this week's numbers.
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#8re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:59pmCan someone explain what Avenue Q did as campaigning? I've heard that phrase a lot but have no clue what they did. Thanks!
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:08pm
Avenue Q had a "vote your hearts" campaign. They sent out swag (which isn't allowed anymore) in the form of buttons, cds, etc. They decked out the place in red, white, and blue.
That said, good for Curtains!
#10re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:11pmWhich is why the Tony campaign for Avenue Q may ultimately be better respected than the show itself.
#11re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:17pmCURTAINS is certainly beating the odds! Terrific word of mouth and fantastic press/marketing. I'm so happy.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#12re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/2/07 at 11:40pmIf i was a DISNEY stockhloder. I would be calling for Schumacher's head, closing BEAUTY (look at those numbers and percentage).
#13re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/3/07 at 1:11amI also think that Disney is underestimating the amount of money that Anneliese van der Pol is going to pull in. Agewise, the group of kids whose parents will take them to see Beauty and the Beast are also the kids who watch That's So Raven on the Disney channel. The kids will know who she is, the parents will know who she is. I wouldn't be surprised if Beauty began selling to 100% capacity during the final months of the run.
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#14re: Broadway Grosses week ending 4/1
Posted: 4/3/07 at 1:19am
Oh god why doesn't Disney just cancel the closing date? I can't take it anymore...I'm going to chain myself to the Lunt-Fontanne theatre shouting " SAVE BEAUTY"
Updated On: 4/3/07 at 01:19 AM
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