LB's grosses are down slightly from last week. I don't know when the big surge in ticket sales due to the MTV airing is going to happen but it hasn't yet.
just to point this out again - it's not how much money a show is making that determines it's success. If that was true, Spelling Bee would have closed during previews. The amount of money is all relative to the size of the house.
"Why would someone pay 111.00 for something they've already seen in its full glory on TV?"
Because they would want to see it live and have as much fun watching it as all the pink people did. Either mend your disdain or choke on something please.
Seriously. Not everything on Broadway has to be Sondheim. I enjoyed LB more than I thought I would though I've heard Xanadu is more fun in terms of the "fluffy, commercial stuff."
If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman
Nobody said everything on Broadway has to be Sondheim. Maybe there are some out there that just didn't enjoy Legally Blonde. I found the quality of Legally Blonde to be very lackluster and not what I expected from Broadway professionals.
"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'"
-Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot
Is that like when a judge does it in his chambers?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
It's more fun and in many other ways better than a great deal of the crap that some people here have worshiped. I enjoyed almost all of it and certainly laughed a great deal. LBB has talent to spare and Orfeh is a hoot and a great singer and damn it, Nikki Snelson (right?) is wonderful and Kate Shindel is hilarious when she starts to dance AND WHAT A VOICE.
As for audience numbers, look at the size of the house. Most shows would have trouble filling that number every week, week-in-week-out.
I hope it runs for a while longer as I want to get back and see it again...
We are not going to see an immediate jump in Box Office for the show.People were not going to watch it on MTV and go "oh lets book to see that show next week", this was done so the name Legally Blonde the Musical was out there so when people do go to NY to watch a show they will be more likely to book a show they have heard about or watched months ago on TV
This was a way of keeping grosses steady, and it is
The show is still making a lot of money each week and thats what keeps shows open
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Unemployment: Its what actors come from and what, inevitably, they return to.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
A lot of shows are papering Wed, Halloween is a typical slow day. I was offered free tkts to WICKED that day. It's a good day to stand in front of a theatre and maybe get as freebee.