Posted: 10/10/17 at 1:15pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/COME-FROM-AWAY-Recoups-in-Less-Than-8-Months-on-Broadway-20171010
Shocked it took this long, but incredibly happy!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 1:24pm
This is awesome and I'm a little more excited to be there tonight than I already was. I really love this show.
Posted: 10/10/17 at 1:29pm
8 months is extremely fast to recoup any musical production on Broadway in this day and age! This show is the little engine that could, and I bet nobody is more surprised to see it become a weekly sell out than its own lead producers. Congratulations!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 1:46pm
I love how my boss (after seeing the show in DC), didn't think it would last on Broadway!! Now she pretends she never said such a thing.
Posted: 10/10/17 at 2:09pm
glad for them! Hope it's a long and fruitful run
Posted: 10/10/17 at 3:55pm
So happy for them! And it can only be a good thing that producers and investors of an original musical with an unknown writing team and no stars in the cast are getting this kind of financial reward! One can only hope it'll motive others to make brave choices and give little shows that don't much going for them on paper a chance!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 4:06pm
Amen, amen, I say to you...COME FROM AWAY recoups...CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY's advance dries up and sales drop like a newborn giraffe.
And all in spite of (because of?!) what Iris Tinkerbell said.
Sorry if this was a snarky post. I'm just really happy about this recoupment. And Sweeney's, too!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 4:22pm
Wow, what fabulous news for them (and Sweeney!). Today's one of those days that gives me hope for the future of theatre...seeing original musicals and off-Broadway shows do so well is so wonderful.
Posted: 10/10/17 at 4:44pm
Come From Away, Sweeney, and Ghost Quartet extending. I'm thrilled to be a theater fan today.
Posted: 10/10/17 at 6:49pm
SO happy for this show. Wishing it a very long, healthy run on Broadway & also on tour and in Toronto.
Posted: 10/10/17 at 6:58pm
The Toronto company also made $12 MILLION in advance ticket sales, during it's first week of being onsale (which is crazy for a Toronto production).
Posted: 10/10/17 at 7:02pm
SO proud of my fellow Canuckleheads and their Yankee cast ( wid the Newfies too)
Good on yah bhoy!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 7:17pm
Yay. Proof that amateurs can make it in the big scary world of Broadway!
Posted: 10/10/17 at 7:19pm
qolbinau said: "Yay. Proof that amateurs can make it in the big scary world of Broadway!"
You piss me off some times
Posted: 10/10/17 at 8:11pm
You and 99% of this board feel the same way I'm sure, don't worry. I’m half kidding though. For all its sappiness, indistinguishable songs and skeleton production values I still enjoyed it and don’t regret going.
Updated On: 10/10/17 at 08:11 PM
Posted: 10/11/17 at 1:19am
qolbinau, your reaction perfectly encapsulates the spell this shows seems to cast. I wasn't terribly interested in seeing the show when I was in New York last spring, my wife is even less interested after seeing the Tonys, and yet even the types of folks I would expect to hate Come From Away usually don't hate it. (There are exceptions, but not as many as I expected.)
At some point, I'll probably see in on tour (even if I have to go alone) just to see what I think.
But yes, I do think the success of another original show with no stars, or even borderline stars, is a very good thing for Broadway.
