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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
In the news:
‘Mormon’ tops box office
Variety – by GORDON COX
“The Book of Mormon” hit No. 1 on the Broadway top 10 last week — and it’s something of a miracle.
Sure, Tony-sweeper “Mormon” ($1,455,329) has been a sold out hit since last spring, and sky-high demand for tickets has pushed the average price paid per ducat into the stratosphere. But the show’s overall weekly tallies are limited by the size of its venue, the Eugene O’Neill Theater, which at less than 1,100 seats significantly hampers the gross potential when compared to, say, “Wicked,” the long-running hit in a theater of 1,800 seats.
But last week, “Mormon,” undampened by a slow winter week that kept sales below par at many productions on the boards, improved on the prior frame, broke another house record and came out ahead of “Wicked” ($1,349,433), “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” ($1,268,002) and “The Lion King” ($1,226,681).
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049797?refCatId=15
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London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky and Cleanly Staged Comedy
ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by BEN BRANTLEY
The habits of the nursery die hard in this country, so I suppose it’s too much to expect the British to stop playing with their food on stage. Anyway, you have to admit that directors here come up with some surprising and, on occasion, illuminating variations on what to do with comestibles. And I don’t mean just the pastry-in-the-face, drinks-down-the-shirt-front sort of antics practiced so joyously in the Broadway-bound farce “One Man, Two Guvnors” and the zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors.”
Consider, for example, the uses to which strawberry trifle, red gelatin, whipped cream and chocolate sauce are put in the Young Vic’s hot-and-sticky new interpretation of “The Changeling.” That’s right, I mean Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s Jacobean revenge tragedy about poisonous lust, in which lots of noble (in name only) people come to excruciating ends, after having sex that qualifies as dirty by even by the most tolerant standards.
What, you may well ask, has dessert got to do with it? Especially the kinds of dessert (or pudding, as the British call it) associated with infantile comfort and joy. But the up-and-coming director Joe Hill-Gibbins (who staged the Young Vic’s crackling revival of Martin McDonagh’s “Beauty Queen of Leenane”) isn’t just being perverse.
Or rather he is, but in ways that unexpectedly complement the perverse spirit of this grisly, twisty tragedy. Written in the early 1620s, “The Changeling” is so full of nasty devices you expect it to explode in performance. This adaptation pares the big, bulky script down to an intermissionless couple of hours, but it retains all the most, er, memorable elements.
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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/london-theater-journal-revenge-served-sticky-and-cleanly-staged-comedy/
Broadway Ad Breakdowns:
Sunday, February 5, 2012
(b/w unless otherwise indicated)
New York Times
ARTS & LEISURE
Newsies
4” x 15” – Color
Wicked
2” x 17” – Color
Anything Goes
2” x 7” – Color
Mary Poppins
2” x 7” – Color
War Horse
2” x 7” – Color
Evita
6” x 3” – Color
Bergen Record
Better Living
Newsies
Full Page – Color
Jersey Boys
6” x 3” – Color
Other Desert Cities
2” x 7”
Daily News
NY Local
Shatner’s World
3” x 5.75” – Color
Newsday
FanFare
Newsies
3” x 11” – Color
Star-Ledger
Arts & Escapes
Newsies
Full Page – Color
Phantom of the Opera
6” x 2.5” – Color
War Horse
2” x 7”
Star-Ledger
Arts & Museums
Stick Fly
6” x 2”
New York Post
No theatrical advertising
Friday, February 3, 2012
(b/w unless otherwise indicated)
New York Times
Weekend Arts
Anything Goes
2” x 7”
Mary Poppins
2” x 7”
Stick Fly
2” x 7”
War Horse
2” x 7”
Bergen Record
No theatrical advertising
Daily News
No theatrical advertising
Newsday
No theatrical advertising
New York Post
No theatrical advertising
Star-Ledger
No theatrical advertising