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Broadway Grosses: Kinky Boots Enjoys a Killer Week at the Box Office

Broadway Grosses: Kinky Boots Enjoys a Killer Week at the Box Office

Broadway enjoyed a bump at the box office this week with grosses and capacities rising across the board. The Audience Choice Award, Outer Critics and Drama League-winning musical Kinky Boots was the fiercest new musical in town this week, landing in the top five for both gross and capacity. Meanwhile, the Drama Desk-winning revival of Pippin broke another house record ...

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Broadway Grosses: Pippin Breaks Box Office Record

Broadway Grosses: Pippin Breaks Box Office Record

The Tony-nominated revival of Pippin is definitely doing magic on Broadway. The musical broke the house record at the Music Box Theatre this week earning $861,233. Bette Midler's solo show I'll Eat You Last also broke the house record at the Booth for the third time. Meanwhile Constantine Maroulis' dueling identities said farewell to Broadway as Jekyll ...

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Broadway Grosses: Bette Midler Breaks Box Office Record with I'll Eat You Last

Broadway Grosses: Bette Midler Breaks Box Office Record with I'll Eat You Last

Audiences are having a grand time as Bette Midler dishes Hollywood gossip from her couch at the Booth Theater where John Logan's new comedy I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers is packing in crowds. The show broke the theater's house record earning $753,217 for a seven performance week. Another solo show however said ...

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Lucky Indeed: Lucky Guy, Starring Tom Hanks, Recoups on Broadway

Lucky Indeed: Lucky Guy, Starring Tom Hanks, Recoups on Broadway

Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, which marks the Broadway debut of Tom Hanks, has recouped its $3.6 million investment just two months after beginning preview performances at the Broadhurst Theatre, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Lucky Guy follows the rise and fall (and rise again) of famed tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the corrupt police ...

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Broadway Grosses: The Rascals Reunion Rocks Broadway

Broadway Grosses: The Rascals Reunion Rocks Broadway

The 2012-13 Broadway season is officially over, and several new shows are proving to be box office hits as Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Matilda and Motown continue to gross over $1 million. Audiences eager to relive rock history headed to the Rodgers Theatre where The Rascals reunion show Once Upon a Dream played to a healthy 91.77% capacity and ...

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Broadway Grosses: Matilda Hits the $1 Million Mark

Broadway Grosses: Matilda Hits the $1 Million Mark

Sorry Miss Trunchbull, looks like audiences don't find those Matilda children revolting at all. After opening to glowing reviews, the new musical took in over $1 million for the first time during its run. Bette Midler broke the house record over at the Booth Theatre where I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers earned $686,031 ...

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Broadway Grosses: Kinky Boots Hits the $1 Million Mark

Broadway Grosses: Kinky Boots Hits the $1 Million Mark

Everybody say yeah! Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's new musical Kinky Boots strutted into the Millionaires' Club this week as the glamorous show took in $1,026,793 during its first full week of regular performances. Meanwhile the musical Hands on a Hardbody drove away from the Brooks Atkinson Theatre as it played its final performance. 

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Broadway Grosses: Bette Midler Pulls in Crowds for Her Broadway Return in I'll Eat You Last

Broadway Grosses: Bette Midler Pulls in Crowds for Her Broadway Return in I'll Eat You Last

The spring Broadway season is in full swing as the last remaining new shows are now all in previews (with the exception of the upcoming Rascals concert engagement Once Upon a Dream). Bette Midler and Alan Cumming join fellow solo-show stars Holland Taylor and Fiona Shaw as their respective plays I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers ...

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Smash Ratings Watch: Bernadette Peters Returns, Viewers Do Not

Smash Ratings Watch: Bernadette Peters Returns, Viewers Do Not

The latest news over in Smash land is, well, exactly the same as it always is. NBC’s troubled Broadway soap fell in the ratings yet again after the April 2 episode “The Parents.”

TVLine reports the numbers from last night’s episode, which found Ivy squaring off with her wicked stage mother (played by Bernadette Peters) and Karen holding ...

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Broadway Grosses: Wicked Takes In Over $2.5 Million During Holiday Week

Broadway Grosses: Wicked Takes In Over $2.5 Million During Holiday Week

Broadway definitely had a happy Easter as 19 shows played to houses of 90% capacity and more. Long-running, family-friendly hits Wicked and The Lion King both passed the $2 million mark. And while Broadway said farewell to Scarlett Johansson as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played its final performance, plenty of new stars are now calling Broadway home: The ...

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