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What really took the advance out of advance ticket sales?

By Ken Davenport On August 30, 2011 · 13 Comments

One of the most common complaints amongst anyone hawking tickets to anything these days is that people rarely buy in advance anymore.  If you're a vacation resort, a football team, or a Broadway show, you're white-knuckling it a lot of the time, because so many customers take so long to click [...]

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    Broadway’s Quarter 1 Results

    By Ken Davenport On August 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

    Summer is just about gone, and so are the first 13 weeks of the season.  So let's see how we're shaping up so far.

    The first quarter of the 2011-12 Broadway season gave us the stastical equivalent of a picture of Lindsay Lohan at church.  It just doesn't make sense.

    The tally of the grosses [...]

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      This blog cancelled on account of a hurricane?

      By Ken Davenport On August 29, 2011 · 5 Comments

      This week I'll celebrate the 20th anniversary of my arrival in NYC.

      In those twenty years, Broadway has only failed to get its curtains up twice before:  the first on 9/11, and the second during the Blackout of '03.  

      But this weekend, in walked a little trollop named Irene who [...]

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        Broadway Grosses* w/e 8/28/2011

        By Ken Davenport On August 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

        The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending August 28, 2011:

        Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $313,522 3,607 70.31% $86.92 BABY IT'S YOU! $199,278 3,992 69.97% $49.92 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL $358,485 4,421 77.78% $81.09 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN $334,136 5,088 71.56% $65.67 CHICAGO $306,025 4,027 74.57% $75.99 FOLLIES [...]

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          Open Call for Performers- Cassandra’s Angel

          By Ken Davenport On August 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

          WHO: Cassandra's Angel and Clemmons/Dewing Casting

          SEEKING: iTheatrics is casting a national educational tour of the musical Cassandra’s Angel based on the children’s book Cassandra’s Angel by Gina Otto. Female and Male performers 18 and older. 

          WHEN: Auditions: 9/14 Job Start Date: 9/24

          PAY: $650/week

          HOW TO APPLY: Audition sign up begins 9:00 AM 9/14 at Ripley [...]

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