Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14 — Page 2

While Aladdin is doing very well, it won't do any worse than 100% for a few months due to mammoth pre-sales

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When you guys say Bridges is going to get a lot of nominations what are you thinking?
Best Musical
Best Score
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Orchestrations
Anything else in a season thick with musicals would be a stretch

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Bridges will also get nominated for book and stands a chance at a supporting nomination or two

I can confirm with 100% absolute certainty that JRB is not putting money into his own show.

Even if the book of Bridges is the weakest aspect if the show, it's likely to get in by default- plus I don't think they will snub Marsha Norman . I think Hunter Foster stands a strong chance at a nomination.

'Unless "Once" gets a name in the show for the Fall, it looks like it'll be gone by Labor Day. Maybe Kazee & Milioti could return to the show?'

Milioti could bring in audiences since she's now known to a wider audience due to her appearance on How I Met Your Mother and The Wolf of Wolf Street. Not sure if she'd do it though, I'd love to see Zrinka Cvitesic come over and do the role of Girl on Broadway.

I imagine the NUT for ONCe is low, but the actors are probably making a mint since they can probably get orchestra pay plus their actor's salary. But I still can't imagine it cost that much to run, and they've already paid back their investors. I could see this show running for awhile at low grosses.

Once recouped in just 21 weeks(August 2012). It's been doing well since then and has just started to see it's grosses dip low.

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Re: Sutton Foster.

I saw her in Millie and Anything Goes and liked her fine. But then I made the mistake of watching "Bunheads", and man - she was SUCH a beating. She's not a draw for me as a twice-a-year or so NYC visitor.

She "was a beating" in it was hard to watch her act and attempt to be funny.

Again, just one lady's opinion. I know people around these parts love Sutton.

I know it has no chance of winning the big prize, but it's still a gem of a show.

While I certainly wouldn’t put money on it, I wouldn’t count it out, either. There doesn’t seem to be a clear-cut musical in the lead and, if it gets a large amount of nominations (which I think it stands a good chance at), I could see it building momentum toward earning the big prize.

My guess is this is what the producers are thinking (and hoping) my happen, too. If this were last year, where it was clear that it would be “Kinky” and “Matilda” vying for Best Musical (and nearly all other nominations in between), I bet they would have closed up shop by now. Luckily, this year, it does have a shot at doing quite well at the Tony’s. (And, if it is among the most nominated shows of the season, it could be one of the few examples of nominations giving a boost to sales.)

However, this sentiment is true, for me, of nearly all of the new musicals this year. Nearly every show has been received so vastly different by both audience members and critics (except “Gentlemen’s,” but I think, it being a small show of a very specific style that opened earlier in the season, it might have a tougher time fighting against the “big” shows), that I don’t feel confident counting out any show. I actually think there may be no clear front-runners when the nominations arrive. Because of the widely differing opinions on nearly all of the shows, I could see the nominations being very spread out as opposed to a couple of shows earning nominations in nearly all categories.