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UPDATED with MJ totals: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending Sunday. It was one of several high marks achieved for Main Stem shows in 2023’s final box office frame. The Harry P…

UPDATE, with revised figures Big holiday ticket prices, bonus performances and large audiences spurred a hefty surge of nearly 50% in Broadway box office last week (ending Jan. 1) over the previous week, with productions including Funny Girl, MJ, Six, Beetlejuice and & Juliet among the shows smashing…

Six had its best week ever, Mrs. Doubtfire was back and several new shows joined the Broadway roster last week as box office climbed a total of 23% to $34,729,295. Compared to the previous week, Broadway total attendance was up about 16% to 261,835 for the 34 productions. The attendance figure indicates that about 87%…

The sextet of queens of Six and each of the three Lehman Brothers – or rather the performers in the Broadway roles – may compete in the Tony Awards’ lead acting categories this year, Tony administrators announced today. The decision to consider the individual members of those ensemble casts was among the first set of …

Gallows humor – and after the last 18 months, can there be any other kind? – is in exuberant form at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where the terrific new musical Six just had its long-in-coming opening night. Originally set to open on March 12, 2020 – Covid had other plans – Six and its sextet of singing…

The original principal cast of Broadway musical Six will return to the production this Fall, producers announced today. The musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss begins performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Sept. 17, with its long-delayed opening night set for Oct. 3. Six was in previews when the Covid-19…

Count Six as Number 2 – the second Broadway musical in as many days to announce a reopening date: The crowd-pleasing contemporary-pop take on the wives of Henry VIII will begin performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Friday, Sept. 17, with an official opening night of Sunday, Oct. 3. Tickets to Six will go on…

The Inheritance, Sea Wall/A Life, Slave Play and Girl From The North Country are among the Broadway nominees of this year’s Drama League Awards, along with a significant shows of Off Broadway productions. Honoring productions that opened during the COVID-shortened 2019-2020 season, the nominations were announced by Bee…

A part-time Broadway usher who recently worked at two theaters has tested positive for coronavirus, the theater owners have confirmed, as both shows – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Booth Theatre and Six at the Brooks Atkinson – continued performances Wednesday night. According to a joint statement from the…

Broadway’s upcoming musical Six will star the actresses who created their roles in Chicago for the North American premiere, producers announced today. Playing the six wives of Henry VIII in a modern musical retelling will be Adrianna Hicks as Catherine of Aragon, Andrea Macasaet as Anne Boleyn, Abby Mueller as Jane…

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ Olivier-nominated musical phenom Six will open on Broadway March 12 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, producers Kenny Wax, Wendy and Andy Barnes, George Stiles and Kevin McCollum said today. Performances begin on February 13. The synopsis: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded…

EXCLUSIVE: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, creators of the Olivier Award-nominated musical Six, have signed with CAA for representation. Marlow and Moss wrote the book, music, and lyrics for Six, a pop concert-style modern retelling of the lives of Henry VIII's six wives. Moss co-directed the West End production (along…