"Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery."
-- Walter Winchell
The grosses are out for the week ending 1/1/2012 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.
Up for the week was: SISTER ACT (39.4%), The Addams Family (36.4%), BONNIE AND CLYDE (34.1%), MAMMA MIA! (28.5%), MEMPHIS (27.0%), RELATIVELY SPEAKING (26.4%), CHICAGO (25.0%), PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (21.4%), ANYTHING GOES (20.1%), MARY POPPINS (19.7%), ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (19.7%), CHINGLISH (17.2%), STICK FLY (16.9%), LYSISTRATA JONES (14.4%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (14.2%), OTHER DESERT CITIES (13.1%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (12.6%), JERSEY BOYS (12.4%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (12.3%), ROCK OF AGES (10.8%), SEMINAR (10.4%), THE MOUNTAINTOP (9.2%), AN EVENING WITH Patti LuPone AND Mandy Patinkin (6.7%), FOLLIES (6.4%), GODSPELL (3.8%), How to Succeed IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (3.8%), THE ROAD TO MECCA (2.8%), WICKED (0.7%), THE LION KING (0.5%),
Down for the week was: PORGY AND BESS (-8.5%), Hugh Jackman, BACK ON BROADWAY (-0.2%),
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 After 20-odd years singing, dancing and acting in dinner theatres, summer stocks and the ever-popular audience participation murder mysteries (try improvising with audiences after they?ve had two hours of open bar), Michael Dale segued his theatrical ambitions into playwriting. The buildings which once housed the 5 Off-Off Broadway plays he penned have all been destroyed or turned into a Starbucks, but his name remains the answer to the trivia question, "Who wrote the official play of Babe Ruth's 100th Birthday?" He served as Artistic Director for The Play's The Thing Theatre Company, helping to bring free live theatre to underserved communities, and dabbled a bit in stage managing and in directing cabaret shows before answering the call (it was an email, actually) to become BroadwayWorld.com's first Chief Theatre Critic. While not attending shows Michael can be seen at Citi Field pleading for the Mets to stop imploding. Likes: Strong book musicals and ambitious new works. Dislikes: Unprepared celebrities making their stage acting debuts by starring on Broadway and weak bullpens. |
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