Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/22/15 — Page 2

"According to Stew, only regular visitors on this site are allowed to have opinions."

And by Stew's logic, he must be a shill himself, since he has fewer posts than the person he accused, despite being here for a longer time.

^But your reasoning is irrelevant, since your original post was merely a general question (even if rhetorical): "How many new musicals, even those based off of movies, start their first full week of previews with million-dollar grosses?"

The answer is not many. But it's happened.

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Nothing. Just math.

"I don't think that is the case is that for FN, which has 3 above the title leads but none being anywhere near as big of a draw as Idina."

I'm not so sure. While at the If/Then Stage Door on Saturday I could look across the street to Finding Neverland and the crowd there rivaled the crowd at If/Then.

There will be Glee effect. A Harvey effect. A Peter Pan effect. A successful family film effect. A Gary Barlow effect. And so on.

While I get that a lot of people here just won't like the show, and it might not do well, I don't know why anyone would be surprised if it does well.

We can't have every show aimed at a cognoscenti audience - the rest of us wouldn't go and see them often enough...

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Is this show squarely aimed at "family friendly" ? Because I recall the movie with Depp/Winslet was a bit dark.

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