WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEK!
May 30: Memorial Day on Broadway
May 31: YouTube on Broadway: 2011 Tony Nominees: Part III
June 1: Broadway Boys: Mr. Broadway June 2011: Seth Numrich
June 2: 2011 Broadway Chorus Boys and Girls: Report Card, Part I
June 3: NY PhotoScene: Taxi Tops
June 4: ASK JEFF...and Other Random Stuff
- Tuesday: The last review of the 2010 - 2011 season: The Normal Heart
- Wednesday: One final look at the ads for Tony nominees for Best Play/Play Revival
- Thursday/Friday: Who are the Special Tony Award recipients?
- Saturday: My Tony Award picks in the musical categories, plus a few thoughts on the play categories
- Sunday: The 1st Annual Awards That Tony Forgot Awards announced! (1 PM)
- TONY AWARDS RED CARPET WEBCAST HERE! (6PM)
- LIVE blogging HERE beginning at 7PM with the announcement of the first Tony Awards, and continuing through the end of the CBS broadcast! Continuous updates, commentary, etc.! (7PM - 11PM)
- Monday: My review of the 2011 Tony Awards show and reaction to the results
BE SURE TO MAKE JK'S THEATRESCENE YOUR TONY AWARDS DESTINATION IN THE BLOGOSPHERE!
TOPS AND BOTTOMS (May 23 - 29)
- Top Gross: Wicked ($1.73M)
- Top Attendance: The Book of Mormon (102.4%)
- Bottom Gross: Arcadia ($203K)
- Bottom Attendance: Million Dollar Quartet (39.5%)
- $1M Club: Jersey Boys, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- SRO Club: War Horse, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King, Anything Goes
PREVIEWING ON BROADWAY THIS WEEK:
- Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark - Previews from May 12; Opens June 14
BLIND QUESTION AND FOLLOW-UP:
- Again! Why is Million Dollar Quartet still running? Why?
- As mentioned weeks ago, Anything Goes will have a cast recording, after all!
THIS WEEK (AND NEXT WEEK'S) BROADWAY BIRTHDAYS:
- May 30: Actor Tanya Pinkins (The Wild Party, Caroline, or Change)
- May 31: Actor Brooke Shields (Grease!, Cabaret, The Addams Family)
- June 1: Actor Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
- June 2: Composer/Lyricist Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, Smile, They're Playing Our Song)
- June 3: Actor Barbara Walsh (Company, Big, Blood Brothers)
- June 4: Actor Mary Testa (Xanadu, 42nd Street, Guys and Dolls)
- June 5: Actor Colm Wilkinson (Les Miserables)
- June 6: Actor/Playwright Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Triliogy)
- June 7: Actor Liam Neeson (The Crucible, Anna Christie)
- June 8: Late Actor Alexis Smith (Follies)
- June 9: Playwright Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Farnsworth Invention)
- June 10: Actor Gina Gershon (Cabaret, Boeing Boeing, Bye Bye Birdie)
- June 11: Actor/Playwright Athol Fugard (MASTER HAROLD...and the Boys, Sizwe Banzi is Dead)
- June 12: Late Actor/Teacher Uta Hagen
MAJOR BROADWAY OPENINGS IN HISTORY (May 30 - June 12)
May 31:
- Move over, RAIN, Beatlemania never officially opened on this date in 1977. It ran 920 performances from this date forward, after 5 previews. It played three theatres - the only show in Broadway history to never open and play three theatres!
June 1:
- In 1971, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown opened at the John Golden Theatre, after playing a LONG time off-Broadway. On Broadway, it played 32 performances.
June 3:
- The original production of Chicago opened at the 46th Street Theatre in 1975, where is stayed for 936 performances.
June 10:
- Torch Song Trilogy opened at the Little Theatre in 1982, where it stayed for 1,222 performances. The original cast featured playwright Harvey Fierstein and Estelle Getty. It won the Tony Award for Best Play 1983.
June 11:
- Only 3 shows have ever opened on Broadway on this date: Twelfth Night (1804), The Postmaster's Daughter (1906) and the female version of The Odd Couple (1985).
Don't forget to stop back all this week for complete Tony Awards coverage!
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Jeff
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