Posted: 1/15/17 at 8:22pm
All this talk on here of the great Arthur Miller reminds me of Salesman with the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfiels that was a very hot ticket.
Updated On: 1/15/17 at 08:22 PM
Posted: 1/15/17 at 8:47pm
I remember it being rather difficult to obtain tickets to Emma Stone's run of Cabaret, and believed it did rather well grosses-wise. I don't remember if it was a "sold out for months" kind of hit but the show did very well with her at the helm.
Posted: 1/15/17 at 8:50pm
With La La Land, the next time Emma comes to Broadway, I'd buy tickets quickly because she'll be selling even better than before.
Posted: 1/16/17 at 12:53pm
Someone mentioned Katharine Hepburn and back in the day she was in the most horrific musical ever "Coco", who thought she was anything remotely like the French fashion designer is beyond me but she sold out tickets on BW. Her replacement, the French actress, Danielle Darrieux was so much more believable in the role but the show limped along and closed quickly. Not a dig on Hepburn who I love but it was sheer box office power that made that show a success.
Posted: 1/16/17 at 12:58pm
Someone in a Tree2 said: "Scarlett Johansen in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF of a couple years ago was a very easy ticket to get; it was constantly on TKTS.
Exactly, I think that play sold better because the play is very well known and also had Liev Schrieber in it, her on her own, even in a Tennessee Williams play is not a sold out hit.
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Posted: 1/16/17 at 1:35pm
muscle23ftl said: "Someone in a Tree2 said: "Scarlett Johansen in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF of a couple years ago was a very easy ticket to get; it was constantly on TKTS.
Exactly, I think that play sold better because the play is very well known and also had Liev Schrieber in it, her on her own, even in a Tennessee Williams play is not a sold out hit.
I think it was a little more complicated than that. There was a lot of criticism of the choices made by the director, Rob Ashford and in general, the production got mediocre reviews though not because.of her acting. She also wasn't alone. Her co-stars were Benjamin Walker, Ciaran Hinds and Debra Monk, not a lightweight cast and certainly combined if not on their own, a comparable draw to Liev Schreiber who hadn't yet done Ray Donovan. Also, it was just 4 1/2 years since the last CAT revival with James Earl Jones and that probably didn't help matters. A lot of things working against it. And Liev Scheiber was just in Les Liaisons which did so-so business and was constantly at TKTS as well. So hard to argue it was due Liev's star power that A View sold out.
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Updated On: 1/16/17 at 01:35 PM
Posted: 1/16/17 at 1:37pm
I thought this was going to be a play about celebs who have insulted Broadway lol
Posted: 1/16/17 at 2:54pm
Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain
Posted: 1/16/17 at 11:27pm
UncleCharlie said: "muscle23ftl said: "Someone in a Tree2 said: "Scarlett Johansen in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF of a couple years ago was a very easy ticket to get; it was constantly on TKTS.
Exactly, I think that play sold better because the play is very well known and also had Liev Schrieber in it, her on her own, even in a Tennessee Williams play is not a sold out hit.
I think it was a little more complicated than that. There was a lot of criticism of the choices made by the director, Rob Ashford and in general, the production got mediocre reviews though not because.of her acting. She also wasn't alone. Her co-stars were Benjamin Walker, Ciaran Hinds and Debra Monk, not a lightweight cast and certainly combined if not on their own, a comparable draw to Liev Schreiber who hadn't yet done Ray Donovan. Also, it was just 4 1/2 years since the last CAT revival with James Earl Jones and that probably didn't help matters. A lot of things working against it. And Liev Scheiber was just in Les Liaisons which did so-so business and was constantly at TKTS as well. So hard to argue it was due Liev's star power that A View "
If you read well what I wrote, I said that Scarlett (plus I will add it was Broadway debut) plus Liev, plus the famous play by Arthur Miller were responsible to the success of the play, plus it was a smaller house.
The cast of "Cat" was a few Broadway stars, Liev is a Broadway star, but he is also a minor celebrity and Hollywood star (and at the time he was married to another pretty big movie star, more mainstream than just a Broadway star)
Updated On: 1/16/17 at 11:27 PM
