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The Broadway box office took a short dive following the Thanksgiving holiday bonanza, shrinking $2.4 million or 12% from the week before. But Al Pacino proved that audiences will still pay top dollar to see certain stars regardless of the vehicle. In this case, it was the world premiere of David Mamet’s China Doll…

Mickey Ross, the graying mogul played by Al Pacino in David Mamet’s cockamamie new play China Doll, has a scheme to fly off into the sunset with his gorgeous young girlfriend. To that end, he’s just made the down payment on a $60-million Swiss jet, which is waiting on the tarmac in Toronto, where he’s stashed the GF…

UPDATE with more information: The producers of David Mamet’s new play China Doll, starring Al Pacino, have moved the opening back two weeks, to December 4th from November 19th. That’s two additional weeks, including the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday weekend when tourists buy out tickets to almost anything on <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/broadway/" id="auto-tag_broadway_2"…

Al Pacino is heading back to Broadway. He’s set to star in David Mamet’s China Doll, a play written specifically for him. Mamet describes China Doll as a “play about a wealthy man, his young fiancée, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into…