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‘MOULIN ROUGE!’ & ‘STRANGE LOOP’ TEST TONY TRADITION OF GOOSING GROSSES

June 11, 2022 by Philip Boroff

Eight months after winning the Tony Award for best musical, Hamilton’s weekly grosses were up 45 percent. Dear Evan Hansen‘s were higher by a comparable margin after its win.

Grosses for Moulin Rouge! at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre were down 25 percent last week compared with early fall, when the adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie reopened as Broadway’s newly minted best musical. At $1.2 million, its box office is off by nearly half since the end of 2019, when Moulin Rouge! was the top grossing new production of 2019-20, with an average ticket price second only to Hamilton.Continue Reading

‘JAGGED LITTLE PILL’ RECEIVES 15 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS

October 15, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Jagged Little Pill,  a musical about teenage and parental angst based on Alanis Morissette’s bestselling 1995 album, was nominated for 15 Tony awards, the most of any show last season.  Moulin Rouge!,  a lavish musical about a star-crossed romance undone by fatal illness, received 14 nominations.Continue Reading

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