Democracy...how's it doing?

I saw it for the third time a week and half ago. The performance was about 80% full. When the show opened to mostly great reviews in November, it was doing great business. For about a month, it was hardly ever on TKTS. Business has cooled a bit and it's on TKTS a lot now, but I don't think it is going anywhere any time soon. I think it will definitely last till the Tonys.

For a man who writes straight, usually serious plays, Michael Frayn does pretty well. "Copenhagen" had a nice, healthy run, and "Noises Off!" was a smash in the eighties. The revival played for a year, too.

Now that good plays are few and far between, serious theatregoers have to go where the good stuff's at.

I don't know, we're doing pretty well for straight plays these days. On Broadway, we have 12 Angry Men (which is doing very well), Democracy, Brooklyn Boy, Doubt is transferring and coming up is Pillowman, Passion Play, Glass Menagerie, Virginia Woolf, Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond (worth it for Jones), Julius Caesar and Glengarry Glen Ross. Off-Broadway is packed with Hurlyburly (which may be transferring), Mamet's Romance (Atlantic), Shinn's On The Mountain (Playwrights), After Ashley (Vineyard), Gurguis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (The Public), Thom Paine, LaBute's This Is How It Goes (The Public), Coriolanus (The Duke), Vogel's Hot 'n Throbbing (Signature), The Controversy (The Public) et al....

Not a bad slate.

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