Broadway is now preparing for the new season coming up and they hope to make another crowd pleasing performance with all of their shows and plays. Wicked and Hairspray seem to be a favorite and another one is Jersey Boys. I've never really heard of Jersey Boys until I read this interesting article. Musicals and Plays are hanging on for the Holidays and it will probably be another busy time for them. But this Halloween was it hard for them to fill up all their seats? A handful of others have been struggling to fill seats. This past week — with Halloween falling on a Friday night and the New York City marathon on Sunday — had an unusually large dip in attendance. Jason Robert Brown’s musical about adolescent angst, “13,” and “A Tale of Two Cities,” which was ravaged by critics, filled fewer than half of their seats for the week that ended on Sunday.
“August: Osage County,” this year’s Tony winner for best play; the musical spoof “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps”; the British farce “Boeing-Boeing”; and the long-running musical “Avenue Q” did not rise much above the 50 percent mark, with the last two shows losing more than 17 percent of their audiences from the previous week.
Disney’s “Mary Poppins” and “The Little Mermaid,” meanwhile, hovered around 60 percent of their capacity, although such family musicals are expected to pick up during the holiday season, and Disney’s deep pockets mean that it has more of a cushion to keep shows afloat. (Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” has declined to make its numbers available for more than a year now.)
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