The ridiculous LION KING gross is inflated by a 9-show week, but still damn that's a hell of a number.
Nice bump for FOREVER TANGO after opening, even with lower attendance, though some of that surely is an artifact of comps opening night.
Hadn't really seen it before looking at the graph, but there's a stark drop from the long-running and clear hits and the newbies and not-for-profits. Great to see VANYA AND SONIA... so clearly in the former category, but BOUNTIFUL is surprising me with its extensions. It must be hitting its nut...
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.