Broadway Report Says Glass Is Half Full
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Despite a dearth of new musicals and plays this fall, Broadway ended the year with an increase in sales and audience, according to a new year-end report.
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Variety - (Variety) NEW YORK Road grosses jumped a huge 36.6% to &#36;14,978,801 during Week 31 (Dec. 27-Jan. 2) as six shows returned to the boards after a Christmas hiatus: "Peter Pan" (&#36;894,418), "The Graduate" (&#36;671,345), Movin' Out" (&#36;880,108), "The King and I" (&#36;465,897), "Hairspray" (&#36;884,103) and one company of "The Producers" (&#36;910,350). "Spamalot" (&#36;893,388) and "All Shook Up" (&#36;721,445 in nine perfs) continued their pre-Broadway runs in Chicago.
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Arts & entertainment: At a time when West End theatre is at its lowest artistic ebb in years, an attempt is being made to restore quality drama to the commercial sector.
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The Broadway show will stage its last performance on January 1.
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Reported incidents were likely a small percentage of actual problems, group says.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; After a huge drop over Halloween week, Broadway grosses recovered 6.8% to &#36;11,861,299 during Week 23 (Nov. 1-7), with attendance up 3.4% to 182,759.
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The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
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NEW YORK -- The NHL suffered less than half the losses it has claimed the past two years, according to a report in Forbes Magazine.
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Playbill - A little-known, unfinished late-career play by Tennessee Williams is being developed for Broadway, the New York Daily News reported.
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The Broadway musical that broke a batch of records will play its final performance on April 22.
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The final Broadway opening  of the month takes place Thursday.
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Broadway inspires a morbid fascination. Ever since vaudeville went respectable, a century or so ago, everyone from social critics and city planners to choreographers and doormen has predicted the imminent
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Musical Bombay Dreams is to close on Broadway, New York, eight months after opening.
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The New York City Opera will likely produce four pared-down operas while its Lincoln Center theater is renovated next season, down from the company's typical 12 productions, officials said.
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Up to Â£125m in public money may be needed to bring London's theatres up to standard.
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Good, bad or indifferent, one-act plays have been flooding the city's stages.
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Is the glass full to brimming, or just half full?