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Broadway lost six productions on January 15 – including the top-grossing The Music Man – to the usual January roster-thinning, and each show went out on a happy note with strong attendance. With 29 productions on the boards, Broadway grossed $33,859,988 for the week ending January 15, down about 9%…

  The news wasn't all grim for Broadway during 2022. Some shows actually defied the lingering effects of Covid and the drop in New York tourism and became no-doubt-about-it hits, with ticket-buyers filling seats at Funny Girl and The Music Man and The Phantom of the Opera (!), with even riskier fare like Leopoldstadt…

They were passing the hat on Broadway, but Nicole Kidman wasn’t passing on the opportunity to do some good. At a charity fundraiser held on Saturday for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS event at the Winter Garden Theatre, Kidman made an astonishing bid for the hat fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman wore…

Broadway’s hit revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster is extending its run by two weeks, with a closing date now set for Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. "The hunger of audiences for our show continues unabated,” said producer Kate Horton in a statement. “We are grateful to Hugh and…

The producers of Broadway’s hit musical revival The Music Man will end the show’s successful run on Jan. 1, 2023, when star Hugh Jackman exits after a year a Professor Harold Hill. “I am thrilled that Hugh and Sutton [Foster] will continue to create their unique magic to the stage right through to the end of 2022 so…

Most of the 21 Broadway productions on the boards last week showed some signs of summer doldrums, with 17 shows reporting drops in box office over the previous week. Still, with The Music Man back on the roster after a week’s hiatus, the overall total box office take of $23,513,592 was up about 6%. Total attendance…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…