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On Broadway, theres the trucker-hat-filledGutenberg!
May that bring us more comedy, sure, but also moreThe Musicals.
If you like sitting in a booth at Bar Centrale and eavesdropping on the next table over, enjoy.
That trick worked for Stritch every show, exceptMamma Mia!Damn those Swedes.
Jackson McHenry
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A Bad Harvest forShucked
This weeksgrossesare out.
Even a Reba ad couldnt save them.
Rebecca Alter:It just isnt right!
THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN.
CORN IS THIS NATIONS MOST POPULAR CROP.
Jason P. Frank:I am choosing to memorializeShuckedas a success story.
Who knew when this show was announced that it would gain this many fans?
And I think it plays well both on the road and in its already-announced West End production.
Average ticket sale of $180, too.
McHenry:An interesting comparison there to the HamburgHamiltonproduction closing.
Its got staying power in NYC but literally very hard to translate.
Bonanos:Prince Harry enjoyed it, at least.
McHenry:Yeah, theyre seemingly doing very well on the West End.
Alter:How does Melissa Etheridges box office compare to the weekly intake from, say, a tour?
At least it has an intermission so theres a merch and drink sales opportunity there.
Alter:Speaking of merch, I wish we had the numbers onthat.
Hearing a whole lot of chatter about theseGutenberghats.
Bonanos:TheGutenberghat is sold out, at least on the shows website.
I just got a call from 1981, and its confused.
McHenry:To be fair, its hard to feel entirely good about average $220 tickets.
McHenry:Its a mixed feeling.
Which Is Which?
Staff writer Devon Ivie noticed similarities between the dialogue of newly openedGutenberg!
The Musical!andOh, Hello.
(The two showsdoshare the same director.)
Here are four scenes can you identify the show from which they come?
I got a few big problems with that.
So dont do it again.
Scene 2Actor 1:We could only afford three of them.Actor 2:Yes.
But they are professional musicians.
[The band jams hard Billy Joels My Life.
Then one cuts them off with a conductors flourish.
]Actor 1:And … stop!
Here in this theater which is basically on Sixth Avenue.
So many great playwrights have staged their works.
Tennessee Williams and his sister Serena.
Answer:Scenes 1 and 4 are fromOh, Hello.
And then theres the beauty of Chopin the plain power of his music and his highly memorable melodies.
Woman on the subway explaining how the Broadway Flea Market gets its goods.
You know, theater is also this long, but they have an intermission.
Guy at a screening for Martin ScorsesesKillers of the Flower Moon.
Im curious about that postgraduate relationship.
Elsewhere …
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez took lie-detector tests forVanity Fair.
Among other topics, the co-stars address Groffs infamously spitty performances.Whats your secret to staying so hydrated?
Mendez asks.I get wet when I Groff begins.Mendez and Radcliffe shake their heads.
No, say something else, yo, say something else.
Joanna Merlin, the original Tzeitel inFiddler on the Roof, died at 92.
