When MAMMA MIA fills more seats than AVENUE Q - something is wrong in this country.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:29pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91215.html

[Mythus]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:31pm

Uh...isn't Mamma Mia in a larger theatre?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:31pm

Well MAMMA MIA has twice the number of seats...

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:31pm

When Mammia keeps FILLING seats, there is something wrong...

[Phantom2]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:32pm

Mamma Mia! always heads the class in terms of weekly grosses and attendance.

Updated On: 2/14/05 at 09:32 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:33pm

Doesn't matter to me. I hate MAMMA MIA!. The music is great - show is lousy. Should have closed long ago, but its a great tourist attraction, so it has remained.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:34pm

OMG Wicked is slipping! What if it closes???!





Just kidding

[ashley0139]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:34pm

I am coming to NY again in March for a yearbook conference and my teacher wants to see a show. Her FIRST choice, out of all the shows on Broadway, is Mamma Mia. Are you kidding me? Now, I have never seen it because I don't really have any interest to, but the first choice? Uh oh.

[timote316]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:35pm

Mamma Mia filled 96%, Avenue Q was only 91. Hm, that is a shame.

On a related note, Chicago did pretty well last week.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:36pm

You're complaining about a mere 4% difference? Come on.

[Jwei123]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:37pm

this is february. everything slips usually!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:37pm

Of course the music to MM is ok....it wasn't COMPOSED to be in a musical...

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:37pm

Very true, Jwei

[BEKA531]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:37pm

wicked is at 99.5! i think the world is going to crash down and die RIGHT NOW.

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:40pm

Believe me, I am no fan of Mamma Mia, in fact I hated it, but Mamma Mia is tourist AND kid friendly. Avenue Q is not.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:42pm

True.

Q just cant and wont gather the audience and tourists that Mamma Mia! gets.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:48pm

Q may not have the wide appeal that "Mamma Mia" does, but if I was going to New York, you can bet I'd be trying desperately to get "Avenue Q" tickets (if I didn't already order them :)) Oh, why must I live so far from New York??

[Bal]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:18pm

BEKA531, I gotta say, I love your avatar...*grin* Seeing my comic there just made my day. You rule. :)

Ooookay. I adore Avenue Q, don't get me wrong...I think it deals with real situations, and a couple of the songs hold a deep meaning for me...

But for the general audience? I think they see Q as a novelty act, and Mamma Mia as lovable nostalgia.

Argh. Mamma Mia...just, argh.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:21pm

Kids, you cannot take your 6 year old to Avenue Q. The writers and producers know that. So there is a somewhat limited market,

[WhiteRabbit]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:11am

I'm not a fan of Mamma Mia, but it is still doing good on B-way. It isn't helping my argument that jukebox musicals aren't good. Well Good Vibrations is down at 53.4% so that is saying something.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:05am

In defense of Mamma Mia, which I have seen twice, it does what it sets out to do and it does it well. I wonder how many detractors are not big ABBA fans or dislike the music to start with. If you don't like ABBA, there's no way you'll like Mamma Mia. But if you can't stop wanting to sing along to all their hits (despite the silly not-really-English) lyrics, Mamma Mia is hardly a disaster. True, the book is flimsy, but I give credit to the writer for having figured out a way to tie the songs together (even if she borrowed from a number of old movies). The choreography is bouncy, the chorus boys always very hunky, and both times I've seen it, the lead voices have been top notch, far better than those on the dismal non-Broadway Original Cast recording. Plus the ABBA medley after curtain calls gets the audience up on its feet and singing along as they've been wanting to from the start. I love the GREAT shows (Caroline, or Change, The Last Five Years, Carousel, just to mention a few from various eras and genres), but Mamma Mia is still one I'll be glad to see again when it plays in Pasadena next year.

[mirramar]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:12am

It's so nice to see so many like-minded people that understand that Mama Mia is such a WEAK show.
I LOVE Abba, but that show was excruciatingly hard to sit through. I find it so hard to understand why that show stays open while other fantastic shows shut down.

[BWAYboi_yes]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:45am

i'm amazed to see all of these people complaining about Mamma Mia when it quite obviously is doing well. Tell me, all of you who hate Mamma Mia, when was the last time you purchased a full price theatre ticket? if producers left it up to 'theatre people' to attend their performances, Broadway would be over in no time. People who like the 'high art' of theatre don't have any money. People who have money like Mamma Mia. The fact that Mamma Mia is playing means that producers are still encouraged to produce shows, and that's a good enough reason for me to support it.

[Anastasia_Beaverhausen]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:49am

I LOVE Mamma Mia! and it sounds like a lot of other people do too. The fact that it's doing better than Avenue Q is just fine with me. There is nothing wrong with the world...get over it. :)

I like Avenue Q as well, but come on now.... Updated On: 2/15/05 at 11:49 AM

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:54am

The Golden is roughly half the size of the Winter Garden
It'll always sell less tickets
And yeah, it's Feb., the slowest month, so I wouldn't be worried