Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/4/12 & Theatre Quote of the Week

“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?”
-- Will Rogers

The grosses are out for the week ending 11/4/2012 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: ANNIE (4.0%), EVITA(3.2%),

Down for the week was: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (-37.1%), GRACE (-27.7%), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (-24.9%), War Horse (-22.3%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (-19.3%), WICKED (-17.8%), THE HEIRESS (-15.5%), CHICAGO (-15.1%), NEWSIES (-14.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-14.0%), CHAPLIN (-14.0%), SCANDALOUS (-12.4%), ONCE (-11.2%), AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (-10.3%), THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (-10.3%), BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL (-8.7%), THE LION KING (-8.4%), MARY POPPINS (-8.3%), JERSEY BOYS (-7.8%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-7.5%), ROCK OF AGES (-6.4%), THE PERFORMERS (-4.7%), MAMMA MIA! (-4.3%), WHO'S AFRAID OF Virginia Woolf? (-2.8%), GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (-2.6%),

New Yorkers, remember to vote "yes" on the referendum requiring replacement stars in Chicago to meet minimum singing, acting and Fosse-dancing standards as dictated by a panel consisting of Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen and Chita Rivera.

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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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