Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8 & Theatre Quote of the Week

"I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals."

The grosses are out for the week ending 1/8/2012 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: PORGY AND BESS (18.2%), AN EVENING WITH Patti LuPone AND Mandy Patinkin (15.6%), SEMINAR (11.9%), FOLLIES (9.0%), LYSISTRATA JONES (6.6%), ROCK OF AGES (1.0%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (0.1%),

Down for the week was: CHINGLISH (-22.4%), RELATIVELY SPEAKING (-21.9%), MAMMA MIA! (-21.6%), SISTER ACT (-19.0%), CHICAGO (-14.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-14.6%), MEMPHIS (-12.6%), MARY POPPINS (-10.2%), GODSPELL (-9.6%), STICK FLY (-9.5%), ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (-7.9%), JERSEY BOYS (-4.3%), THE MOUNTAINTOP (-3.6%), ANYTHING GOES (-3.2%), THE ROAD TO MECCA (-2.7%), THE LION KING (-2.7%), OTHER DESERT CITIES (-2.4%), PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (-2.0%), WICKED (-1.9%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-1.5%), HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (-0.8%),

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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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