December 30, 2004
Broadway money totals for 2004: good; end of 2004: eh
While the 2004 totals for Broadway are looking pretty good, due in part to a surge in foreign tourist spending, things aren't exactly coming up roses if you use the more typical Tony-to-Tony Awards calendar, (or June to June), the New York Times notes.
Earlier this week, the League of American Theaters and Producers said $748.9 million in Broadway tickets were sold in 2004, a 3.2 percent increase over 2003. That translates into 11.3 million tickets sold in 2004, up from 11.1 million a year earlier. But since June, sales and attendance is just slightly below the same period a year earlier. The Times takes a stab at the cause: Part of the flat sales during 2004 could be attributed to a fall season that saw only one new musical open - the struggling pop rocker "Brooklyn" - and only two new plays ("Democracy" and "Gem of the Ocean"). Filling the void were a number of one-person shows and play and musical revivals, of which only one, "Twelve Angry Men," was a bona fide hit. The Crain's report is more upbeat, noting that Billy Crystal's one-man show "700 Sundays" set a one-day ticket selling record for a Broadway play, with $600,000 in single ticket sales on Dec. 5., the day after its Broadway debut. It also points to the upcoming openings of the musicals "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," the Beach-Boys inspired "Good Vibrations" and an Elvis thingy called "All Shook Up."
December 30, 2004 09:24 AM in Broadway
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