Twenty-One on Broadway
Broadway Ticket Sales Report Week ending August 26, 2007 By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com What a difference a week makes! There are now just twenty-one productions on Broadway, with the last…
Broadway
Broadway consists of the 40 professional theaters scattered across New York City’s Theatre District, including the Ambassador, Imperial, Majestic, and Shubert Theatres, among others. Collectively, the theaters are quoted to bring in over $900 million dollars a year. Theatre in New York got its foot-hold during the mid-to-late 1700s, at which time The Park, The Bowery, and The Astor Place Theatres were established. Originally focusing on the works of Shakespeare, Broadway moved in the musical direction during the mid-1800s with productions of “The Black Crook,” and the Gilbert and Sullivan “H.M.S. Pinafore,” among others. Actors on Broadway make a big distinction between their profession on what they call the “legitimate stage,” and other more variety oriented acts like vaudeville and burlesque.
Current masterpieces to hit Broadway for the 2009-2010 season include “Chicago,” “South Pacific,” “Wicked,” “Hair,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “The Lion King,” and “Jersey Boys,” to name a few.
Hannah Montana and Van Halen Melt Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ Show
A “Wicked” Defeat: Hannah Montana and Van Halen’s Tours Trump Top Broadway Musical By Stacey Willets TicketNews.com Wicked’s dominance in the TicketNews exclusive weekly Top Tens is melting as a…
Broadway Wheels, Live Nation Deals and Hannah Punches Out Mayweather
By Alfred Branch, Jr. The stock market might be in a tizzy, but Broadway continues to be a pretty safe bet, as evidenced this week by the news that gross…
Broadway: Doing Something Right
Broadway Ticket Sales Up 10% Compared to This Time Last Season Broadway Ticket Sales Report Week ending August 12, 2007 By Carol-Ann Rudy – TicketNews.com Broadway ticket sales this week…
Rent Increases on Broadway
Broadway Continues to Play it Hot Broadway Ticket Sales Report Week ending August 5, 2007 By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com Is the rent increasing on Broadway? Yes, according to the production…
A Legally Blonde Wicked Beast Invades Broadway?
Another Plum of a Week for Patrons of Broadway Theatre to Pick Weekly Broadway Ticket Sales Report By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com Legally Blonde joined the ranks of No. six on…
Grease Lightning Strikes Broadway
GREASE: BETTER THAN THE 50’S EVER WERE (and quite possibly more fun!) By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com FANS—screaming, shrieking, and heard all over midtown Broadway! The Beatles? The Rolling Stones? The…
Hairspray, Wicked, Poppins and The Lion King: Summer Broadway Sizzles
Weekly Broadway Ticket Sales Report By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com A good week! The five highest grossing productions on Broadway were: Wicked $1,468,400 at 100% capacity; The Lion King $1,291,898 at…
Claire Danes to Make Broadway Debut
Claire Danes will make her Broadway debut as Eliza Doolittle in a revial of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play Pygmalion. Pygmalion spawned the classic musical ‘My Fair Lady’ and was…
Does Broadway Have the Summer Blues?
Variety is reporting that Broadway is suffering from a bout of the summer doldrums. Sales slumped $1.5 million last week, with the total sagging to $18,547,188. More than half of…