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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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‘Follies’ Is Coming To Broadway This Summer
ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by Patrick Healy
Those unhappily married couples of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical “Follies,” who long for their younger, happier days revolving around New York theater, will have another shot at Broadway this summer. The Washington revival of “Follies” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will transfer north to the Marquis Theater for a limited run that is expected to begin performances in August, the president of the Kennedy Center said in an interview on Wednesday.
Casting is not set, but it’s fair to assume that the two stars of this “Follies” — Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer and Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone — will be sought to continue in the Broadway run, said Michael M. Kaiser, the Kennedy Center president.
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Adele Reclaims No. 1 on Billboard 200, ‘Book of Mormon’ Makes History
Billboard.com – by Keith Caulfield
While Adele’s “21″ returns, as expected, to the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a tenth non-consecutive week (114,000; down 5%) and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” falls to No. 2 (100,000; down 42%), the real news is the stunning re-entry at No. 3.
The original Broadway cast recording of “The Book of Mormon” comes roaring back in at No. 3 with 61,000 sold (up 2,116%) following the show’s nine Tony Award wins on Sunday, June 12. It is the highest charting Broadway cast album — and first top 10 — since 1969, when “Hair” spent 13 straight weeks at No. 1.
And, with a whopping 61,000, “Mormon” owns the largest sales week for any cast album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The previous best sales week for a cast set belonged to the original London cast recording of “Phantom of the Opera” (Highlights), which sold 54,000 over the Christmas week of 1992.
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Tony Awards help give Broadway ticket sales a bump
TicketNews.com – by Carol-Ann Rudy
The 2011 Tony Awards and long-anticipated opening of “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” helped fuel a slight increase in Broadway ticket sales to $21,540,623 for the week ending Sunday June 12, up from the previous week’s tally of $20,598,779. The total for the new season to date is $42,139,402, down 2.1 percent from the same period last year of $43,061,754.
The American Theatre Wing’s 65th annual Tony Awards took place over the weekend at Beacon Theatre in New York City with the musical “The Book of Mormon” leaving as the big winner of the night. The show took home nine awards including Best Musical and Best Direction, which went to Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker.
While “The Book of Mormon” and many productions celebrated their award-winning accomplishments, the producers of “Spider-Man” celebrated finally having their show hold its opening night after having more previews than any show in Broadway history. The show officially opened its doors last night, June 14, and was one of only six productions with sales of more than $1 million last week, finishing at $1,210,619.
Along with “Spider-Man,” the other five productions to reach seven figures were “Wicked” at the Gershwin leading at $1,752,076, “The Lion King” at the Minskoff, $1,690,120, “The Book of Mormon” at the Eugene O’Neill, $1,184,507, “Jersey Boys” at the August Wilson, $1,056,720 and “How to Succeed in Business” at the Al Hirschfeld, $1,001,672.
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