Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19

Yay for Hair and Rock of Ages!!!

Oooof 9 to 5

Ouch for 9 to 5. Will be gone by January.

I honestly never in a million years would have thought that 9 TO 5 would be falling off the charts the way it is. I thought it was going to be a huge smash. Wow.

At any rate, I'm really happy for SHREK. I didn't particularly love the show, but I love the cast, and it looks like the summer months are giving it the push it's been waiting for. And go HAIR!

And, honestly, bravo to WICKED. Over five years later and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down any time soon.

Updated On: 7/20/09 at 03:06 PM

It's nice to see that 16 of the 23 current shows are at 90% or higher.

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"Ouch for 9 to 5. Will be gone by January."

As long as it makes it to August 21st I'll be ok. That's when I'm seeing it. lol.

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Thats sad, I really don't like Rock of Ages.

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I always thought 9 TO 5 was destined to be a smash hit.

The lack of Tony attention (and truly bad reviews) really seemed to have taken a toll on the show.

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That happens every year. One summer everyone predicted BROOKLYN would be the big Tony hit..... um....

"The lack of Tony attention (and truly bad reviews) really seemed to have taken a toll on the show."

Coupled with the fact that it really is not a good show.

Brooklyn has one good song...i think?

And I havn't seen 9 to 5 yet, but I'm sure the book could have been better. To be honest, I'm just seeing it for Megan Hilty. If it lasts that long

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Legally Blonde is by no means brilliant theater, but it's leaps and bounds better than 9 to 5, mainly because Legally Blonde was helmed by Jerry Mitchell, not Joe Mantello. The score to Legally Blonde, again, while nowhere near brilliant, is exponentially better than 9 to 5's.

I have to disagree. I thought 9 TO 5 was much better than LEGALLY BLONDE.

LEGALLY BLONDE was fun and mindless but its book was pretty bad, its score was enjoyable but cloying and irritating about 90% of the time, and LBB just didn't have the star power to carry the show. I enjoyed it much more when Bailey was in it, acutally.

9 TO 5 is mindless fun and has a pretty terrible book but the score is much better than LB's and the three lead female performers all exude "star" quality and carry the show effortlessly.

That said, I don't think anyone left BKLYN thinking it would be the next big thing. I left the first preview of 9 TO 5 thinking it would be a total tourist trap and that it would be a smash. I knew it would run into problems with the critics because it's by no means a great show but I thought it was really entertaining, tons of fun, and I had heard only great things from everyone I knew who saw it. BKLYN was just a mess on so many different levels.

The predictions of BKLYN being a huge Tony hit were blind predictions from people who hadn't seen the show yet, as were those who thought 9 TO 5 was a shoo-in to win Best Musical. You can't predict the artistic integrity of something (which one would hope has something to do with the Tony Awards) before you see it.

Updated On: 7/20/09 at 03:58 PM