Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29- Page 2

[Robert Taylor]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#25

Posted: 3/30/09 at 10:43pm

I'm not trying to seem like a troll, but I'm honestly curious how August: Osage County keeps trucking along with all those low grosses and percentages. I would understand if it was one or two weeks...even a month, but this has been going on for so long. I know it has recouped, but it can't be hitting its weekly nut, can it?

I really adore the show and wish it was doing better...

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#26

Posted: 3/30/09 at 10:55pm

"I'm in the minority here about the artwork. I think it is cheesy, hideous, and unappealing. I was on N2N's website and my (non-theatre loving) dad peaked over my shoulder and asked me what I was looking at, and I told him it was N2N and briefly described the show. He thought the show looked corny (based on the artwork), he though the music was 3rd rate rock songs, and thought that ALL the singers sounded goofy in the songs displayed on the site, and he was very turned off by the fact that it was a musical about mental disease. This is exactly what half of middle-America must be thinking right now. Even though I don't agree with ALL my dad's opinions, it suddenly made me further my opinion of why this show has little chance at success."

As a theatre-loving teen, I had the same reaction as your dad. But, I don't wish any show fails, for the performers' sake.

2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5 May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot

[ACL2006]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#27

Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:48pm

i don't think Phantom will ever close.

Great numbers for WSS, Hair & Poppins again!!

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#28

Posted: 4/1/09 at 6:33pm

Wishing only wounds, I'm a theatre loving teen and mostly agree with my dad. Those 6 songs on the website sounded like crappy third rate rock songs. He hated "Mountains", but I like that song, just not the singer. My dad thinks all of the singers he heard were too broadway, but I think the three young ones could do a rock show (a REAL one, like Hedwig and Spring Awakening)

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#29

Posted: 4/1/09 at 7:06pm

Robert, I, too, wonder about AUGUST. I just don't get it. I want the show to run forever, so I'm not complaining. It's a brilliant show. But like you, I just don't understand how it can keep going like this.

"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)