broadway musicals

When it comes to big-ticket musicals, it looks like theatergoers want Broadway to play it again, Sam -- and again, and again, and again. Gawker reports that New York City tourists spent a record amount on shows this Thanksgiving weekend -- but that most of the cash was pooled around longtime...

Broadway has finally figured out how to best Hollywood at the grosses game. During Thanksgiving week, the Wizard of Oz-themed musical Wicked grossed $2,086,135, a new weekly record for a musical. To put that into perspective, the movie adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection The Road only...

When most people hear that someone is planning a Broadway musical version of the Spider-Man franchise, the reaction is usually the same: "They're what?" Well, that's what we thought about The Lion King, too, and sure enough, that stage version turned into one of the biggest smashes of our...

Dolly's pouring herself a new cup of ambition: Broadway. One of the only bright spots in the Great White Way's season is the incoming musical 9 to 5, based on the now-classic 1980 workplace madcap comedy. For the past decade, Broadway (like Hollywood) has generally abandoned originality in favor of...