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Julie Taymor & Niece Danya Taymor Direct Nearly 10% Of Broadway’s Total Box Office; ‘The Lion King’ And ‘The Outsiders’ Gross A Combined $3.2M
Nearly 10% of Broadway's total $37 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Julie Taymor and her niece Danya Taymor.
Grossing more than $1 million for the week were Aladdin($1.4M), An Enemy of the People($1.3M), Back to the Future($1.1M), Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club($1.9M), Hamilton($1.9M), Hell’s Kitchen($1.7M), Merrily We Roll Along($1.8M), MJ($1.3M), The Great Gatsby($1.2M), The Outsiders($1M), The Wiz($1.4M), Uncle Vanya($1M), Water For Elephants($1M) and Wicked($2M). In the final weeks of their limited runs, Best Play nominee Mother Play, starring Tony nominees Jessica Lange, Jim Parson and Celia Keenan-Bolger, grossed$718,388, up by $32,738 over the previous week, and Uncle Vanya, starring Steve Carrel in his Broadway debut, jumping $77,670 to$1,088,875. The Heart of Rock and Roll, the Huey Lewis jukebox musical that has announced an early closing of June 23, continued its struggle at the box office, filling just 51% of seats at the James Earl Jones Theatre last week and grossing$272,487.
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