The Lowest Gross in Broadway History!!!!!

[Bway@8]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:11pm

Prymate at the Longacre Theater -

Weekly Gross - $9,851
Total Atten. - 303
Total Capacity - 1,095
Avg. Ticket Price - $32.51
Atten. - 6.9%

6.9%!!!!!!! I never saw something like it!!!

[JakeB]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:19pm

Who's in it? What's it about?

I see The Producers is back into the 80s.

[Bway@8]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:21pm

I dont know, but i'm going to see it today (I got free tickets)

[bially082]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:22pm

Yeah, but they are still in the top 5 for gross. (The Prducers i mean)

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:22pm

Wasnt that for 4 performances? Not that even THAT is good...its really...FRIGHTFUL

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:50pm

ouch

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 4:56pm

Well i hate to hear that but the show is not a favorite of mine.
Updated On: 4/20/04 at 04:56 PM

[Amy Archer]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:04pm

Gee, Corine...for someone who wasn't going to comment about Prymate because it hadn't opened yet, you sure have come out swinging against it on multiple threads. Are your convictions made of custard?

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:09pm

Sorry Amy,
I am honest. If i like a show I say so. I felt terrible for the actors who are all strong in the show. The show made me sick.
Really though I am usually very positive. But the show offended me.
Updated On: 4/20/04 at 05:09 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:41pm

Name a few shows you have liked as I am curious Corine

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:43pm

Shows I liked:
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Beckett/Albee
Fuddy Meers- Which could offend some. I love Abaire!
King Lear
The Normal Heart
Avenue Q
Barbara Cook(show at Lincoln Center)
Wonderful Town
Caroline Or Change
Forbidden Broadway
Wicked
Big Bill
Hairspray
The Lion King
La Boheme
Millie
I Am My Own Wife
The Violet Hour
Wintertime
Fired
Golda's Balcony Updated On: 4/21/04 at 05:43 PM

[Jack42]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:44pm

Barbara Cook isn't a show, she's a person!

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 5:45pm

Jack her show at Lincoln Center.

[EVGIRL]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 6:52pm

I don't know if the low grosses have anything to do with the merits of the play. I follow Broadway pretty closely in the NY Times and the Internet and I had never heard of this play before it was mentioned in the weekly grosses. They had no publicity whatsoever.

[Qfan]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:22pm

well i don't even understand what the show is about. I've read stuff on it but didn't make sense. I doubt the show will still be around in 10 days when im in NYc

p.s. i heard someone gets naked. isnt that cast all old people could be disturbing.

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:53pm

what is the show about??? thanks :)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 11:37pm

"p.s. i heard someone gets naked. isnt that cast all old people could be disturbing."

Now let's count the ways that's offensive. (Cue the 40 lashes music from Jesus Christ, Superstar).

[izzard]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 1:34am

Yes, Qfan - please let us know what is the maximum age someone is allowed to be naked on stage before it is deemed disturbing. Maybe we can get Equity to put in a new by-law.

I haven't seen the show yet, but I have been led to believe the nude body in question belongs to 28-year-old Heather Tom. I hope her age falls within the guidelines of what you deem acceptable.

[Jon]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 9:29am

Here's what's potentially offensive about this play:

A man (Andre DeShields)potraying a gorilla, urinates (simulated) on a woman (Heather Tom), who later gives the gorilla a (simulated)hand job.

[krisjoseph]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 10:35am

I can't BELIEVE Edward Albee didn't write this!

[robbiej]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 10:44am

I don't see that as offensive.

It actually sounds like a couple of former boyfriends.

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 10:57am

LMAO, KrisJoseph

I LOVED THE GOAT, so I guess I have a CHANCE of liking this

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 11:00am

Ruffian,
I loved the Goat and it did not offend me.
I also loved Beckett Albee and it was witty not offensive.
Updated On: 4/21/04 at 11:00 AM

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 11:02am

Yes, I know you enjoyed THE GOAT. I am glad. Cause I sent a few friends to it & they were pissed off at me

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/21/04 at 12:09pm

There is a fine line between the offensive and the disturbing. If PRYMATE shakes up the bourgeois sensibilities of people who think that plays like TAKE ME OUT and THE GOAT (two plays I love, incidentally) are "edgy", then I'm all for it.

Mark Medoff is a fine playwright (Children of a Lesser God, his last hit) who has been, I think, written off as a has-been (perhaps with good reason). That he has a new play that is not going the regional or off-broadway route is very interesting to me because its not like he's resting on old laurels. What is it about this play that made people think that it would work on Broadway?

The only thing offensive to me in theater is how safe and predictable it has all become. Stunning lack of quality in just about everything. And how audiences have become so pansy wansy....I hate when people tell me they found a show "depressing". Awwwww...you felt something? How awful for you! Surprise is just flat-out not tolerated these days.

This SO sounds like a shill, I know. Haven't seen PRYMATE...it could be utter crap for all I know, but I have a feeling its current failure at the box office has more to do with a kind of "Ewwwww...black guy playing a gorilla? Peeing? Hand jobs? I don't wanna see that!" I'm willing to wager PRYMATE isn't any more about watersports than KING LEAR is about stomped on eyeballs.