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Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Star Sutton Foster Tests Covid-Positive For Second Time
Sutton Foster, who stars opposite Hugh Jackman in the Broadway hit revival The Music Man, has tested positive for Covid for a second time since December and will miss performances until Wednesday, July 6.
Jackman returned to the show June 22 following his own second bout with the illness, which he announced the day…
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By Greg Evans
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Hugh Jackman Tests Positive For Covid Just Hours After Tonys Performance; Standby To Temporarily Step Into ‘Music Man’ Role
Hugh Jackman tested positive today for Covid, according to The Music Man producer Kate Horton. As a result, standby Max Clayton will play Professor Harold Hill on Broadway alongside Sutton Foster beginning Tuesday and continuing through June 21.
The news comes just hours after Jackman, who also had Covid late last year…
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By Tom Tapp
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‘Spring Awakening’ Reunion Planned For Tony Awards; Nominees ‘MJ’, ‘Strange Loop’, ‘Music Man’, ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ Also Among Performers
Original cast members of the 2006 Broadway production of Spring Awakening will reunite for a special performance during this Sunday’s Tony Awards events, producers said today.
Also performing Sunday will be the casts of A Strange Loop, Company, Girl From the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Music Man, Paradise…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway’s First Post-Shutdown “Red Bucket” Spring Charity Drive Raises $4.2M, With ‘Music Man’ Setting Record Of $2M
The red bucket brigades so long-familiar to Broadway spring audiences were back this year after a two-year pandemic absence, and the results were heartening: donations across Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS totaled $4,288,994.
One musical in particular outdid itself…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway Box Office Blossoms As Spring Arrives; ‘Plaza Suite’, ‘Funny Girl’, ‘Macbeth’ Among Full Houses
Broadway’s spring season kicked into higher gear last week, with the arrival of seven previewing productions (with more to come over the next few weeks). Business overall remained robust, with the 31 shows grossing a total of $28,818,836. The figure marks a 7% increase over the previous week, a jump due in no small…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway Box Office Climbs To $26.8M; ‘Funny Girl’, ‘American Buffalo’ Begin Previews; ‘Music Man’ Takes $3.3M
Funny Girl arrived on Broadway to a full house last week, selling out its first preview at the August Wilson Theatre.
The musical revival, starring Beanie Feldstein in the title role, hit town as Broadway continues posting big rebound box office numbers. For the week ending March 27, the 24 Broadway productions took…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway Box Office Climbs 12% To $18.9 Million As ‘The Music Man’ Officially Opens
Broadway box office continued its climb back from the early-winter Omicron surge, with 19 productions grossing a total $18,939,840 for the week ending Feb. 13, a 12% jump over the previous week’s take.
Total attendance for the shows was up 9% to 165,971, a decent 87% of total seating capacity. Average ticket price was…
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By Greg Evans
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‘The Music Man’ Broadway Review: Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster Step Lively To Old Familiar Tunes
When people who dislike musicals talk about the musicals they dislike, there’s a decent chance they’re talking about musicals like The Music Man – whether they’ve ever actually ever seen The Music Man or not. Meredith Willson’s nostalgic slice of Americana was already proudly old-fashioned when it debuted in 1957…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway Box Office Makes Modest Rebound With $17 Million
Broadway box office showed some improvement last week, with business for the 19 productions rising 12% from the previous week to a total $16,909,848. Paid attendance was up a commensurate 9% to 152,557, indicating that about 81% of available seats were filled during the week ending Feb. 6.
That’s a noticeable…
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By Greg Evans
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Broadway’s ‘The Music Man’ Starring Hugh Jackman Won’t Invite Critics Before Opening Night
In a break with Broadway custom of recent decades, producers of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are not inviting critics to pre-opening night previews.
Instead, critics are being invited to the revival’s Feb. 10 opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, with reviews embargoed until thereafter…
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By Greg Evans
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Hugh Jackman Tests Positive For Covid; Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Goes Dark Through January 1
We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It’s trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway’s revival of The Music Man has canceled performances through at least January 1 after star Hugh Jackman tested positive for the coronavirus.
The musical’s co-lead, Sutton…
Broadway’s ‘The Music Man’ Replaces Scott Rudin With British Producer Kate Horton
Kate Horton, who previously ran the Royal Court Theatre in London and has held executive roles also at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, will take over for Scott Rudin as executive producer of The Music Man, the upcoming Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.
With the hire, The Musi…
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By Greg Evans
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