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Broadway showed signs of a spring blossoming last week, with box office receipts and ticket prices taking their traditional climb during the tourist-bumped week leading up to Easter. In all, the 33 productions grossed $38,594,054, a 12% increase over the previous week. Attendance for the week ending April 9 was 280,760, up 4%. The more
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View gallery Image Credit: Blitz Pictures/Shutterstock Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn began quietly dating in 2016 The pair reportedly ended their relationship in the Spring of 2023 Joe Alwyn has served as the inspiration to several albums of Taylor’s, including reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore and most recently Midnights Taylor Swift seemed to have met her match in Joe Alwyn, however, the
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by Trevor Kimball, April 5, 2023 (Photo by: Greg Endries/Showtime) Another late-night show has gone dark. Showtime has cancelled the Ziwe TV series after two seasons. Debuting in May 2021, the variety/sketch talk series was created by its star, comedian Ziwe Fumudoh. Episodes feature interviews, musical numbers, guest stars, sketches, and unscripted interactions with everyday
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View gallery Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Rumer Willis, 34, is preparing for the upcoming birth of her first child and she’s already decided to not be medicated during the big moment. The daughter of Bruce Willis, who was sadly diagnosed with dementia last year, took to Instagram to promote a massager that she’s a
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Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera had yet another smashing, down-to-the-wire week at the Majestic, grossing more than $3 million for the second consecutive week as the countdown to its April 16 closing continues. Meanwhile, another villainous character – the bloodthirsty killer of the ecstatically reviewed Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street –
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View gallery Image Credit: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most famous composers of Broadway musicals The musician’s works include ‘Phantom Of The Opera’, ‘Cats’, and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ The British icon lost one of his 5 children to stomach cancer in 2023 Andrew Lloyd Webber suffered a devastating loss in 2023
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Broadway’s old and new teamed up last week to boost total box office nearly 20%, with The Phantom of the Opera (the old) posting a best-ever $3 million weekly gross and The Jonas Brothers (the new, to Broadway anyway) taking in $1.6 million for their five-concert residency. In all, Broadway’s 29 productions grossed a total
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View gallery Image Credit: Paramount/Everett Collection It’s the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off reunion we didn’t know we needed. The stars of the classic 1986 film, Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick, who played Cameron Frye and Ferris Bueller, respectively, posed for some fun snapshots at Monday’s Season 4 premiere of Succession. In the photo booth pics,
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A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771. Sweeney Todd, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, contributed a whopping $1.8 million to the
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