Loading summary
Transcript17 lines
- [00:00]
A
Awkward time to ask this, but. Hey, did you download the trail map?
- [00:04]
B
Yeah, no, I don't need to.
- [00:06]
A
I don't understand. You're trusting your signal out here.
- [00:08]
B
I'm trusting T Mobile. They have the best network. And if we end up in bumtots nowhere, well, we've got T Satellite for backup. Whoa.
- [00:15]
A
I don't trust my carrier that much.
- [00:17]
B
We'll just use your phone as a flashlight.
- [00:21]
C
With America's best network and T Satellite, we're keeping you connected in places you never thought possible. And if you switch today, you get free phones for zero down and only 25 bucks a month per line for four. Find out more@t mobile.com or visit your local store.
- [00:37]
D
Best Mobile Network Based on analysis by Ooklev Speed Test Intelligence data to age 2025 with 24 monthly bill credits and 4 eligible port ins on essentials for well qualified customers with autopay plus taxes, fees and $35 connection charge per line credits and imbalance 2 if you pay off earlier, cancel contact US Finance Agreement example $299.99 Moto Edge 5G required T satellite available with compatible device in most outdoor areas in the US where you can see the sky included with experience beyond or $10 a month. However, news monthly cancel anytime visit t mobile.com
- [01:02]
E
welcome to Broadway Radio. My name is Matt Tamnetti and I'm here with your midweek grosses and news update. We have some pretty exciting and surprising news and a number of different things that has been announced since our last episode. But let's start with the grosses and for the week ending on Saturday, July 12, there were 32 shows playing on Broadway and they brought in $32,901,607 which was up 12% from from the previous week and up about $88 over the previous year. Which is good because so much at the end of the season. We were talking about how much further down this year was than last year because of all the star studded shows that were part of the 20242025 season at the end. But since a lot of those shows had closed by this time last year, we are starting to level out a bit. Attendance is up significantly over last week, up about 5%. It's coming at 272,464 people, so that is up about 14 last week and up about 12,000 people over last year. The average ticket price came in at $120.76 $7.26 over last week. Hamilton was the top of two shows that were grossing more than $2 million last week, coming at $2,152,267. It was followed very close behind by Death of a Salesman that came in at $2,086,007. But the caveat there is that Death of a Salesman only played seven shows, so obviously a much higher box office per performance. The rest of the shows in the top five are the Lion King at 1.94 million, MJ at 1.73 and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at 1.58. The other shows north of seven figures in descending order are Ragtime, the Lost Boys, Wicked, Aladdin, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Schmigadoon, the Rocky Horror show and oh Mary. In fact, mostly I imagine because the previous weekend, not part of this week, but the previous weekend and some of the bleed over was the 4th of July holiday weekend. But every show except for two saw box office increases last week. The two that did not were oh Mary. It still was over $1 million, but in the transition from Maya Rudolph to Meg Statler it actually went down over $492,000. We knew there was going to be a drop. Meg Statler, as much as I think she is brilliant and I'm sure a great Mary Todd Lincoln is not nearly the star of Maya Rudolph stature. So that is not a surprise. The other one was a little bit of a surprise to me in terms of the size of the drop. Every brilliant thing fell almost $636,000. It was actually the lowest grossing show on Broadway last week. I was out of town, so I don't know if Tracee Ellis Ross, who took over from Mariska Hargitay was out for any of those shows. And maybe that had something to do with the substantial decline at the box office. But it was pretty noteworthy that those are the only two shows on Broadway last week that did see week to week declines. Now on the Last Week on Broadway episode I talked about the fact that Cat's the Jellicoe Ball has announced a closing date of just three weeks away. It did $766,808, up $76,000 from the previous week. Obviously that is not enough to keep it going despite the fact that it is a rather healthy number. I mean it's not great, but it's not awful either. But lots of people rallying around this show. Hopefully the final three weeks can be significant ones for it at the box office. And who knows, maybe something can light a fire under somebody to figure out a way to keep this incredible show running. Of Broadway's 32 shows playing last week, 17 played to 90% capacity or more, just a handful of 100% or more. We had ragtime at exactly 100% proof at just under 101%, Hamilton just over 101% and then death of a Salesman led the way at 101.6. All right, let's get into the news. And this one seemed a little bit inevitable to me that it would happen sometime. I wish that it was happening on Broadway rather than in London. But on Wednesday we did find out that oh Mary will be filmed at the West End's Trafalgar Theater on July 28 for a future release. We don't know when where movie theater, streaming, no idea. What's great about this is is that Cole Escola was will be taking over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln for that and they will be joined by original Broadway cast members. Bianca Lee as Mary's chaperone and Tony Macht as Mary's husband's assistant, while West End great Giles Torreira will play Mary's husband and the wonderful Michael Urie will play Mary's teacher. Sam Pinkleton, who obviously directed the show on stage, will also be directing the filmed performance. Escola is going to be doing the show from July 20th through the 15th while Yuri Lee and Macht will be in there from the 20th through August 1st. A little bit closer to home, this one was honestly a little bit shocking, not in terms of who was doing it or what the show was, but where this star studded revival will be happening this fall. Oscar winner and Tony nominee Sam Rockwell will lead a new production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. He'll be joined by Tony Award nominee and honestly one of the best actors in the world, Morin Ireland, as well as Alfred Molina. Neil Pepe is going to direct and it will happen at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La Mama. Previews will begin on November 27th for a 13 week engagement. There's a lot of these shows between this and Dolly that are having these late fall preview and opening periods that hopefully will bleed into January and start to get some more people excited about the opportunity to see theater when it's cold in New York. It looks like I'm going to have to schedule some sort of trip to be up there for this time of year so I can make sure that I'm seeing all of these great productions. Speaking of great productions, yesterday the Atlantic Theatre company announced its 2026, 2027 season and it features four world premiere works at its Linda Gross Theater in addition to an Atlantic 4 Kids New York Premiere Musical. The season will begin in October with the world premiere of Monoperno's I Became Me. It features music by Jack D. Cohen with lyrics by Pernod and Cohen. The show is a first person monologue performed by a 16 person choir, which is quite fascinating. The show is going to run from October 16th through November 15th. What's great about the children's offering that I mentioned earlier is that it is the new musical Finn, which you might remember was supposed to play the Kennedy center as part of a tour and then the fascist regime that took over that institution did not like a show that might have to do with some sort of gender identity. Put a stop to that. It is going to run in New York off Broadway from December 15th through January 31st. Then back over on the main stage. The new world premiere of the new world premiere from Claire Barron called Too Bad for Her will run from January 9th through February 14th. It'll be directed by Ann Kaufman. The piece is described as a compassionate and perversive exploration of a 30 year affair and its consequences. Then in March, Lucas Hanaith's new play Old Actress will run from March 18 through April 25 and it will be led by Deirdre O' Connell who will be collaborating with Hanai for the first time since their Tony winning production of Dana H. The show will be directed by Les Waters and it is described as a meta theatrical experience about the act of learning lines for a play. And then the final mainstage production of the season will be a world premiere by Jackie Sibless Drury that'll be directed by Justin Peck and choreographed by Patricia Delgado and Peck. The show is called PUSH and it will run from May 27 through July 3. It takes place in 1976 New York as a young choreographer strives to land her first big break, the opportunity to create a dance for the American debut of the best dancer in the world fresh off his defection from the ussr. The Atlantic always does incredible work, but these are four shows in addition to the children's theater offering by some of the greatest playwrights working today. So that is incredibly exciting. Now if you listened to last week on Broadway, I supposed with the announcement that Abigail Barlow would be departing six in August, that maybe Samantha Pauly, who has announced her departure from from the Great Gatsby, could be coming back to six as we have seen a number of the original Broadway cast members return. That apparently is not the case. Because instead, while we do have original cast members joining six on Broadway, they are not original Broadway cast members. Instead, they are original UK cast members Natalie Paris and Amy Atkinson. They will take over the roles of Jane Seymour and Katherine Howard, respectively on August 17th. And this is incredibly exciting. These are the people who, for a lot of six fans, are the originals that they came in contact with. They are the ones who they kind of first heard about when the show was starting to get a lot of steam and was picking up. And then of course, these two appear on the studio cast album. So this is very, very exciting. I'll be interested to see how they do in that show. Now this is an absolutely mind boggling announcement that came across the wires on Wednesday because they announced the cast of the upcoming Death becomes her national tour. And some of it is filled with Broadway favorites, which is great. But there was one Hollywood name that popped in there that blew my mind for a lot of reasons, which I will get into here in a minute. But leading the company as Madeline Ashton will be Jackie Burns, who I think will be fantastic. Playing Helen Sharp will be Kristen Beth Williams. And as Viola Van Horne will be Naysia Thomas, who I have talked about for years about how fantastic she is. But joining them as Ernest Menville will be the star of screens large and small, Ken Marino. Now if you don't know Ken Marino, he's been in so many incredible comedies over the years. You might know him from the old MTV sketch comedy show the State, which I still quote in my head regularly because it's not appropriate to quote out loud. He was also one of the cast members for White Hot American Summer. I first came to know him from the TV show Veronica Mars. He was a recurring guest star on Dawson's Creek and Reno911 party down. He had a great show that only ran one season that I loved called Marry Me. He also was one of the stars of the other two. But what's wild about this is the fact that last night I went and saw a new movie called Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. I only knew the very basis of this movie. I knew it was a comedy, it got great reviews, so I wanted to go see it. And then little did I know that Ken Marino not only is one of the stars of it, but also co wrote it and produced it. So the timing of this announcement coming on the heels of me seeing that movie, which honestly was one of my two favorite movies of the year, if not my favorite movie that I've seen so far this year, was really, really wild. So I love Ken Marino and I don't necessarily love Death Becomes Her. I thought it was fine, but the fact that he is going to be on tour makes me incredibly, incredibly excited to see this show when it hits Orlando in December. Now moving back to New York, we've got some real quick show and casting news. Yesterday, the Deaf West Theater Company announced the casting for a developmental run of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle down the Wind. It'll run for just three performance performances at the Perelman Performing Arts center from July 31 through Aug. 2. It'll be directed by Bill Rauch of Cathedralica Ball of Fame and it will feature such familiar names as Mark Kudish, Elena Shadow, Noah Buchholz, John McGinty, Jared R. Dixon, Anthony Norman, Marina Janssen and more. This show does not get done very often, so I'm fascinated to hear what comes of this when we have seen so much reinterpretation of of Andrew Lloyd Webber shows over the years. Doing it with a cast that features deaf children of deaf adults, siblings of deaf adults and hearing actors is incredibly exciting. Over at Lincoln center, it was announced that Jurnee Smollet, who I have loved since the days of Friday Night Lights, will join the company of the Whoopee monologues on Tuesday, August 4, after Kerry Washington plays her final performance on August 2. In other casting news, Eddie Cooper will be joining the Broadway production of Chicago playing Amos Hart. The Broadway stalwart will take over the role on Monday, July 20th. And finally, if you are my age or older, this is probably incredibly exciting, but 80s pop icon Tiffany will make her New York theatrical debut in a new aerobics themed musical called Spandex. It'll be a limited engagement playing Asylum NYC for just a week and a half September 17th through September 27th. The musical features a book, music and lyrics by Daniel F. Levin and is being directed and choreographed by Liz Piccoli. Alright everybody, that's all that I've got for you. Thank you so much for your support of Broadway radio. If you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio I appreciate you giving us some of your time and listening. This has been Matt Tammanini and I'll talk to you soon.
- [14:31]
A
Awkward time to ask this, but. Hey, did you download the trail map?
- [14:34]
B
Yeah, no, I don't need to.
- [14:36]
A
I. I don't understand. You're trusting your signal out here.
- [14:38]
B
I'm trusting T Mobile. They have the best network and if we end up in bumtots nowhere, well we've got T Satellite for backup. Whoa.
- [14:45]
A
I don't trust my carrier that much.
- [14:47]
B
We'll just use your phone as a flashlight.
- [14:51]
C
With America's Best Network and T Satellite, we're keeping you connected in places you never thought possible. And if you switch today, you get free phones for zero down and only 25 bucks a month per line for four lines. Find out more@t mobile.com or visit your local store.
- [15:07]
D
Best Mobile Network Based on analysis by Ooklib speed test intelligence data 2H 2025 with 24 monthly bill credits and 4 eligible port ins on essentials for well qualified customers with autopay plus taxes, fees and 35 connection charge per line credits and imbalance due if you pay off earlier. Cancel Contract Contact Us Finance Agreement example $299.99 MotoEdge 5G required T Satellite available with compatible device in most outdoor areas in the US where you can see the sky included with experience beyond your $10 a month however news monthly cancel anytime visit t mobile dot com.