Two productions – Hamilton and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – were sell outs. They were & Juliet, A Doll’s House, Aladdin, Fat Ham, Hadestown, Kimberly Akimbo, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Parade, Prima Facie, Shucked, Six, Summer, 1976, The Book of Mormon, The Lion King and Wicked. More than half of the productions – 18 of the 34, to be exact – played to houses with at least 90% of seats filled. Average ticket price for last week – the week ending May 28 – was $119.82. Attendance was 276,158, a tiny 0.2% slip from the previous week. Overall, the 34 Broadway productions grossed $33,088,397 for the first week of the 2023-24 season, up less that a percentage point from the previous week and about the same as the same week last season. With the much-discussed Tony Awards set for June 11, winning productions will be better poised to see some trophy-related box office mojo throughout the summer months. “I think it’s Broadway, simply because I think everything can be Broadway,” she said.David Byrne-Fatboy Slim Broadway Musical Reaches Union Agreement Over Pre-Recorded Track Flap Taymor also revealed details about the two film projects she’s developing, along with a stage production she’s hoping to get off the ground. Originality is what the audiences are hungry for.”
… People think that if you’re doing artistic work, it’s not commercial. “Don’t think because you’re doing something that’s going to have a 4-year-old in the audience that you have to dumb it down. The biggest takeaway for her? “Don’t underestimate your audience,” she said. So there was a sub-sociological bent in that production.”Īlso on the new episode of Stagecraft, Taymor looked back at the production’s early days to recall the challenges of staging the show and the lessons she learned along the way. “Which means they lived in the jungle and had missed Apartheid. “That became part of the story, because they were best friends and they were outcasts,” Taymor said. She singled out a production in South Africa in which Timon was played by a Black South African actor from a township in Capetown, and Pumbaa was played by a white Afrikaner. Speaking on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast, Taymor also explained how other elements of the show can play differently based on the international context.
She added, “In Tokyo, I remember the comedians for the rough and tumble parts, they were from Osaka.
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