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TONY AWARDS BOOST ‘STRANGE LOOP,’ ‘MJ’ SALES

June 22, 2022 by Philip Boroff

Nearly 20 years in the making, A Strange Loop is having a moment.

In the seven days ending on Sunday, Michael R. Jackson’s newly minted Tony Award-winning best musical had its highest-grossing week since it opened in late April, at $845,000. That was up 23 percent from two weeks earlier, according to Broadway League data. (The week before the Tonys is a difficult comparison because Strange Loop, which also won for book of a musical, had seven performances instead of the customary eight.)Continue Reading

BROADWAY CINDERELLA STORY: ‘A STRANGE LOOP’ FOLLOWS ITS PULITZER WITH BEST MUSICAL

June 13, 2022 by Philip Boroff

Maybe Usher can finally quit his day job.

A Strange Loop — Michael R. Jackson’s deconstructionist portrait of a musical theater artist as a young, Black, insecure gay man — was named best musical at the 75th Tony Awards tonight. A former Lion King usher, Jackson spent nearly two decades working on his sacred-cow-slaughtering show about a “Disney ushering, broke-ass middle-class politically homeless normie leftist Black American” aspiring composer-lyricist.Continue Reading

‘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

‘MUSIC MAN,’ ‘PLAZA SUITE’ SHINE IN BROADWAY GROSSES REVIVAL

March 22, 2022 by Philip Boroff

For the first time in two years, the Broadway League publicly reported grosses for each show. Although the industry and the world have changed in the interim, one thing hasn’t: stars sell tickets.Continue Reading

DANCING IN THE DARK: BROADWAY LEAGUE WON’T REPORT SPRINGSTEEN GROSSES

June 25, 2021 by Philip Boroff

Bruce Springsteen’s summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records — but we may never know for sure.Continue Reading

WITH EARLY CURTAIN, BROADWAY HAS LOWEST BOX OFFICE TALLY IN FOUR YEARS

April 8, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Is the Broadway season over? If so, statistically, 2019-20 was both disastrous and illustrative of the industry’s resilience.

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‘AIN’T TOO PROUD,’ ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ SUFFER THEIR WORST WEEK AS VIRUS SPOOKS TOURISM & MARKETS

March 9, 2020 by Philip Boroff

The musicals Ain’t Too Proud,  Moulin Rouge, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill and The Tina Turner Musical  posted their worst sales since opening as tourists increasingly stay home in response to the coronavirus threat.Continue Reading

THE AGE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER MUSICAL (GRAPHIC)

February 5, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Hit musicals are running longer and making more money than ever — which is illustrated by two fascinating interactive charts.

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DAVID BYRNE PROFITS AS ‘UTOPIA’ TICKETS TOP $649

January 31, 2020 by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: Turns out the road to nowhere is paved with gold.

Investors in David Byrne’s Broadway concert American Utopia  have been repaid and profit checks are imminent, according to a person familiar with the production.Continue Reading

GROSS POTENTIAL IS KEY FOR INVESTORS: LETTER TO THE EDITOR

December 4, 2019 by Jonathan Reinis

To the Editor:

Re: ‘THE CURSED BOX OFFICE YARDSTICK‘

There are important reasons to have a specific gross potential when a show begins performances.

Investors are solicited based on a theoretical model created by the producers and general managers.  A key component of the offering (or operating agreement) is a budget and a recoupment schedule.  This schedule is the best guide for a potential investor as to the economic viability of the project, both in the pre-production phase and while the show is running.Continue Reading

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