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Today on Broadway: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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‘Real Women Have Curves’ announces closing date, Broadway Barks confirms 27th annual event, Woods and Criss duet on ‘Suddenly Seymour’ Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headlines every M...
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Matt Tammanini
Welcome to Today on Broadway for Wednesday, June 18, 2025 on Broadway Radio's Matt Tammanini. I'm coming to you on my own today as Grace is out meta ing. I guess there's some sort of big creator thing happening in New York City, so she is otherwise occupied. So I'm gonna run you through all of the news by myself. But I did want to let you know that coming up in the regular feed and the Patreon feed today, depending on when you listen to this, maybe you have already heard it, there will be a new episode of Jan Simpson's Stagecraft in which she speaks with Kalundra Smith, who is the playwright behind the historical drama the Wash, which is currently playing at the WP Theater through the end of the month. So make sure that you listen to that. Obviously, any episode that Jan Simpson puts together, whether it's in her stagecraft or all the drama series, is certainly a must listen for theater lovers of all ilks, unfortunately. Today though, as we start the news, we do have to bid a fond farewell to the latest Broadway show to announce closing post Tony Awards and that is Real Women have Curves, which has set its final performance date at the James Earl Jones theatre for Sunday, June 19, which is in about a week and a half. At the time of closing the show, we'll have played 104 performances on Broadway, including 73 regular performances. It was nominated for two Tony Awards, did not win either, but it did not receive the always important Best Musical nomination. However, it did get a performance on the Tony Awards. However, looking at the grosses and then presumably the advance as well, the producers have decided to wrap up the show. Now, there was no announcement about a national tour happening. However, I hope that that is something that does eventually get announced because I think this show will do very well in different places across the country and if it doesn't happen, I would imagine that it will be one that is done regionally quite a bit in the coming years. The score, which was Tony nominated by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, has a bunch of really catchy tunes and opportunities for a lot of different women to stand out. So sending our best to everybody over at the James Earl Jones Theater, and if you have not seen this one, I highly recommend that you do sometime between now and a week from Sunday. Speaking of those aforementioned grosses, last week, the first week post, Tony's Broadway lost two shows, down to 38 in total. That is because Othello and Goodnight and Good Luck closed on Tony Sunday and because those shows were massive Box office hits. In total, the gross dropped 14%, which is a massive, massive amount. It is over six and a half million dollars. However, on the average, Broadway did very well. The grosses came in at $39,204,872. Total attendance though, despite the 14% drop in grosses, only lost 5% in attendance, which is the same percentage in terms of the number of shows. So 313,343 people saw a Broadway show last week and the average ticket price dropped 10% down to $125.12. Without those big behemoth star studded plays leading the way, there were no shows north of 4 million, no shows north of 3 million, no shows even north of 2.5 million. But there were four shows that brought in more than $2 million last week. Those were led by Wicked at $2,341,054, followed by Glengarry Glen Ross at 2.27 million, the Lion King at 2.09 and then Hamilton at 2.06. The biggest mover of the week, perhaps unsurprisingly, was Sunset Boulevard which had its best week on Broadway, coming in at $1,665,762. Also having its best week on Broadway was the Picture of Dorian Gray which came in at $1.5 million. Next up on the grossest list was Aladdin. Then we had Omari at $1.35 million, which broke the Lyceum box office record. And then of course its own record for the 12th time. Then the rest of the shows north of seven figures were death Becomes Her Buena Vista Social Club Just in Time the Outsiders maybe Happy Ending MJ the Great Gatsby, Gypsy, Cursed Child and Stranger Things. The First Shadow Buena Vista Social Club Just in Time and maybe Happy Ending. All shows that had great nights at the Tonys, either in terms of awards or performances, also had their highest grosses of their runs on Broadway. As I said, the grosses for Rear Women have Curse did not get any bump from the Tonys. In fact it dropped over $49,000 from the previous week. So it is on the bottom of the grosses ladder and is obviously going to be wrapping up shop. The next show that also didn't see a Tony's bump at all was Dead Outlaw which saw a $54,000 decline to come in at under $450,000. I don't know how much longer that show has. It is probably not nearly as expensive as Real Women have Curves, but it played to less than 70% capacity last week, so I have to imagine that some of the conversations that real women have Curves has been having are also happening over at the Longacre as well. The other open ended show from this season that is kind of struggling is Boop. It dropped over $41,000 coming at 512,750 bucks, so keeping an eye on that one too. Operation Mincemeat didn't see a bump from the Tonys yet, but is still doing Fairly well at $763,000 in total despite losing those two big behemoth shows, Othello and Goodnight Good Luck, 22 of Broadway's 38 shows running played to 90% capacity or above. Omari and Wicked were perfect at 100%, Hamilton was at 100.44%. Then the picture of Dorian Gray and the outsiders were between 101 and 102%. And then John Proctor's the Villain maybe Happy Ending and Just In Time were all above 102%. Alright, let's take a break from the news real quick and talk about our sponsors for this week, starting first with the good folks over at surfshark. Whether you know it or not, every time you go online your data is being tracked. What you click, what you search, what you stream. It's all a bit scary. And in an Internet world in which your data means an opportunity to steal money for any variety of shady folks out there, everything is up for grabs unless you do something about it. And now you can. With Surfshark vpn. If you're tired of feeling like you're being followed around the web, Surfshark VPNs got you. It masks your real IP address, and by doing this it hides your online activity, encrypts your data, and blocks creepy trackers. I came of age with the Internet basically, and to have seen how far the technology to stop this shady stuff from happening has changed over the years has been remarkable. I have felt so much safer online since I started using Surfshark. Plus, when I travel, or at least pretend that I'm traveling in order to get better streaming options, all I have to do is change my virtual location via Surfshark and then boom. I'm watching the shows and especially sporting events, just like I'm watching from my couch, or if I am watching from my couch, like I'm somewhere else in the world. And if you're serious about digital security, you need to check out Surfshark Alert. It notifies you if your personal data has been leaked online. And because knowing is protecting. So it's time to take control of your online security. Try Surfshark risk free today and enjoy their 30 day money back guarantee. Go to surfshark.com tob for four extra months of Surfshark. That's code toburfshark.com the URL and the code can be found in our show notes. Next up, let's talk about one of our favorite apps, Cash App, as everyone prepares to start heading out on all of their summer vacations. Whether you are going on cruises like me, going to visit family, traveling internationally, or going to New York to see a bunch of Broadway shows, regardless of what you're doing, if you're doing it with other people, chances are there's going to be some sort of money exchanged. Now, in the digital world that we live in now, nobody carries cash. No one's handing over $300 bills, a 20, a 5, 2 singles and then 47 cents in instead. If you want to make sure that you are sending the money you owe or receiving the money you are owed as quickly and as painlessly as possible, you have to go with Cash App. Cash App is a safe, easy and fast way to send, receive and transfer money to family and friends. And it's incredibly easy to set up. You just enter your phone or email address, some basic information and you don't even have to put it in your bank account. Then when someone sends you money, you don't have to wait days for it to show up into your account. It's there right away. It's your money. You, you shouldn't have to wait. I love using Cash App because it's fast, it's safe and it makes life way less stressful. And now for a limited time only new Cash App users can use our exclusive code to earn some additional cash. For real. There's no catch. Just download Cash App and sign up. Use our exclusive referral code Broadway in your profile. Send $5 to a friend within 14 days and you'll get $10 dropped right into your account. Terms apply. That's money. That's Cash App. All right, got some news about some upcoming events of different types that I wanted to get out there to you. Coming up on Saturday, July 12th in Shubert Alley, we will have the 27th annual Broadway Barks. This year. It'll be hosted by the event's co founder Bernadette Peters along with Brian Beth Level. They are both obviously currently starring in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends on Broadway. The event is open to the public and it's free and it features adoptable dogs from New York City area adoption agencies and rescue groups. And there will be Broadway performers on hand as well. Just some of the names of the of the celebrity participants who will be involved are recent Tony winner Natalie Venetia, Bell Cohn, Eric Bergen, Jasmine, Amy Rogers, Erica Henningsen, Andrew Durand, Julia Knitel, Florencia Quince. Almost all of the cast including Jack Malone from Operation Mincemeat, Gavin Lee, Molly Griggs, Leslie Margarita, Andy Carl, Keisha Lewis, Amanda Reed, Jessica Vosk, Orville Peck, Steven Skybell, Ali Trim and Michelle Williams, Destiny's Child, Not Dawson's Creek. The event will start at 3pm with a meet and greet happening with some of these Broadway stars from 5 to 6:30. Next we've got two invitation only industry readings of new shows. The first is a play written by McAdoo Greer and Rebecca Reynolds called Uncle Vodka, which is not a retelling of Uncle Vanya, although it does share some similar themes. As you'll hear in just a second, the cast will feature Craig Bierko, Hannah Cruz, Carson Elrod, Richard Hollis, Kate McCluggage, Madeline Martin and Kelly Overbay. Karen Carpenter no, not that. Karen Carpenter will direct. The new play follows three sisters who must decide whether to sell their family cottage or buy out their scheming brother when he invokes the law of partition. The other reading is for a new musical called the Emily Dickinson Musical. It features a book and direction by Makena Reynolds with music by teigen Reynolds and J.T. kaufman. The cast includes Olivia Kaufman, Emma Pittman, Olivia Puckett, A.J. shively, Aubrey, Madeline and more. Both of these readings will be happening on June 23rd next Monday and finally, let's wrap up with a few recommendations. They both come from Little Shop of Horrors. The first is Off Broadway. Little Shop of Horrors alums Joy woods and Darren Criss sang the song Suddenly Seymour at An Evening with Darren criss at the 92nd Street. Why so that is awesome. And then we also have video of the current Audrey and in Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway Elizabeth Gillis singing Somewhere that's Green from the show. This is the actual production shot video of that as well. She has just extended her run so that she can co star opposite Graham Phillips, her co star from thirteen the Musical on Broadway. All right, that's all that I have for you today. Thanks for listening to Today on Broadway. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If you want more Broadway Radio, head over to patreon.com Broadway radio have a wonderful Wednesday and we'll be back to talk to you tomorrow.
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