"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie and I just try to be content wherever I am."
-- James Earl Jones
The grosses are out for the week ending 1/15/2012 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.
Up for the week was: THE ROAD TO MECCA (23.8%), FOLLIES (15.0%), PORGY AND BESS (7.4%), CHINGLISH (6.8%), THE MOUNTAINTOP (5.8%), ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (4.7%), MAMMA MIA! (4.3%), WIT (3.7%), THE LION KING (2.7%), WICKED (1.9%), OTHER DESERT CITIES (1.7%), STICK FLY (0.1%),
Down for the week was: MARY POPPINS (-17.8%), CHICAGO (-12.0%), SEMINAR (-10.1%), JERSEY BOYS (-7.5%), GODSPELL (-7.4%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-5.6%), SISTER ACT (-5.1%), PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (-4.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-4.9%), ROCK OF AGES (-4.5%), AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN (-4.5%), ANYTHING GOES (-3.6%), HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (-2.3%), RELATIVELY SPEAKING (-0.4%), MEMPHIS (-0.3%),
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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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