Paul's Broadway Watch Nov04

No musicals opened or closed this month

Seventeen Musicals currently running:
Brooklyn
Original 2004 Broadway Production
Featuring Cleavant Derricks & Eden Espinoza
Broadway Cast Recording released early December.

Dracula
Original 2004 Broadway Production
Featuring Tom Hewitt & Melissa Errico
No Cast Recording

Bombay Dreams
2004 Broadway version of London Production
No Broadway Cast Recording – Original London Cast available

Fiddler on the Roof
2004 Revival
Featuring Alfred Molina, soon to be replaced by Harvey Fierstein!
Cast Recording available

Wonderful Town
2003 Revival
Currently featuring Brooke Shields
2004 Tony Award – Choreography
Cast Recording available – New Cast Recording with Brooke Shields, not Donna Murphy, due for release mid-Dec.

Wicked
Original 2003 Broadway Production
Featuring Idina Menzel
2004 Tony Awards – Actress (Idina Menzel); Scenic Design & Costume Design
Cast Recording available

Avenue Q
Transferred from Off-Broadway in 2003
Featuring John Tartaglia and Stephanie DÂ’Abruzzo
2004 Tony Awards – Musical; Original Score & Book of a Musical
Cast Recording Available

MovinÂ’ Out
Original 2002 Broadway Production
2003 Tony Awards – Choreography & Orchestrations
Cast Recording available

Hairspray
Original 2002 Broadway Production
2003 Tony Awards – Musical; Original Score; Book of a Musical; Actor (Harvey Fierstein); Actress (Marissa Janet Winokur); Featured Actor (Dick Latessa); Direction & Costume Design
Cast Recording available

Mamma Mia!
2001 Broadway version of London Production
Currently featuring Carolee Carmello
No Cast Recording – Original London Cast available

42nd Street
2001 Revival – Due to close in Jan 2005
Currently featuring Patrick Cassidy
2001 Tony Awards – Revival of a Musical; Actress (Christine Ebersole)
Cast Recording available

The Producers
Original 2001 Broadway Production
Currently featuring Hunter Foster
2001 Tony Awards – Musical; Original Score; Book of a Musical; Actor (Nathan Lane); Featured Actor (Gary Beach); Featured Actress (Cady Huffman); Direction; Orchestrations; Scenic Design; Costume Design; Lighting Design & Choreography
Cast Recording available

The Lion King
Original 1997 Broadway Production
1998 Tony Awards – Musical; Direction; Scenic Design; Costume Design; Lighting Design; Choreography
Cast Recording available

Chicago
1996 Revival
Currently featuring Wayne Brady
1997 Tony Awards – Revival of a Musical; Actor (James Naughton); Actress (Bebe Neuwirth); Direction; Lighting Design & Choreography
Cast Recording available

Rent
Transferred from Off-Broadway in 1996
Currently featuring Drew Lachey
1996 Tony Awards – Musical; Original Score; Book of a Musical & Featured Actor (Wilson Jermaine Heredia)
Cast Recording available

Beauty and the Beast
Original 1994 Broadway Production
1994 Tony Award – Costume Design
Cast Recording available

The Phantom of the Opera
1988 Broadway version of London Production
1988 Tony Awards – Musical; Actor (Michael Crawford); Featured Actress (Judy Kuhn); Direction; Scenic Design; Costume Design & Lighting Design
No Cast Recording – Original London Cast available



Attendance figures for last four weeks

Top Three Shows by Attendance
Wicked – 57888
The Lion King – 55709
The Producers – 48538

Top Three Shows by Capacity
Mamma Mia! – 100.3%
Wicked – 100%
Avenue Q – 99.3%

Bottom Three Shows by Attendance
Dracula – 18451
Avenue Q – 25288
Rent – 26120

Bottom Three Shows by Capacity
Bombay Dreams – 56%
Dracula – 56%
Fiddler on the Roof – 62.6%


Currently in Previews
Pacific Overtures - Revival / Broadway version of Japanese Production
La Cage Aux Folles - Revival

Coming Soon
Little Women - New Musical
Good Vibrations - New Beach Boys Catalogue Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - New Musical
Monty PythonÂ’s Spamalot - New Musical
All Shook Up - New Elvis Catalogue Musical
The Wiz - Revival
The Light in the Piazza - New Musical
Sweet Charity - Revival
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Broadway version of London Production