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UPDATE, 11 PM with corrected figures and more information throughout: With 13 shows in pre-Tony-deadline previews, one opening (Skylight) and one closing (Honeymoon In Vegas), the Broadway box office rose significantly over the combo Easter and Passover weekend, with the week ending Sunday grossing $29.5 million for…

UPDATE, 5 PM: Adds more information below. The Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman musical transferred to Broadway in November on the wings of great reviews and a leading performance by<a title="Tony Danza Takes Puncher's Chance With 'Honeymoon In Vegas': The Long Road That Got Him To Broadway"…

You probably remember Castle Rock’s 1992 film Honeymoon In Vegas, if only for the squadron of parachuting Elvis impersonators floating down to the Las Vegas Strip to save the day at the end of writer-director Andrew Bergman’s comedy. Now, as I say in my video review above, Bergman and composer/lyricist Jason Robert…

You think they just don’t make ’em like they used to? To find out how wrong you are, head to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre for a couple of hours of finger-snapping, tap-dancing, hip-swiveling, Elvis-impersonating, night-club crooning fun. That’s what the musical adaptation of Honeymoon In Vegas promises and what it…

EXCLUSIVE: To get to Tony Danza's dressing room at the Nederlander Theatre, where he stars in the new Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas, you walk a corridor that circles the perimeter of the ancient house, where trash cans line one wall, and graffiti scrawled by Rent cast members dominates the other. Climb a set of…

Smarty-pants Matilda and her nasty crew had some good news and some bad news over the last few days. First the bad news: In a tough week for Broadway musicals, Matilda was off a bit over $526K, while still taking in a better-than-respectable $928K at the Shubert Theatre last week. On the bright side, the Royal…

Sunday marked the end of the highest-grossing and best-attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway ever. The total gross was $34.1 million, $2.6 million more than the same week in 2013. Attendance, per the trade group Broadway League, was 284,569, an increase of 23,513 from last year. Just how much of a run on the box…

Related: Tony Danza's 'Honeymoon In Vegas' Sets Broadway Dates, Another Shot For Jason Robert Brown

As we let you know earlier, Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman’s fizzy musical adaptation of Bergman’s 1992 comedy Honeymoon In Vegas is slated to fill the Broadway vacancy left by the shuttering After Midnight. The  new show, starring Tony Danza in the film role created by James Caan, has now set its dates: It…

Bring on the parachuting Elvis imitators: Honeymoon in Vegas, the Jason Robert Brown musical starring Tony Danza that should have come to Broadway this season, will open this fall at the Nederander Organization-owned Brooks Atkinson Theatre,  a source familiar with the negotiation confirmed Saturday. A shortage of…

The Broadway season will end next week with some good news: The total box office will be up about 11% and $100 million over last season, closing at around $1.27 billion. Attendance will be up, but not as much — about 5%, to 12.2 million customers. Those numbers won't mask some of the phenomenal losses, led, of course…