Okay....no offense to Jay Johnson and his many puppets, and to that show's producers, creative time, publicists and all, but I can't begin to understand how they all imaged JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY, a warm-hearted, easily likable, pocket-sized show about a man and his puppets, could have survived on Broadway more than a few weeks. This is the kind of show that would probably have trouble selling out even a small Off-Broadway space like the DR2 Theater. I mean, if the Helen Hayes has a bit less than 600 seats, and the show sold an average of 15-20% of its seats, it probably sold a bit more than 100 tickets per performance. That's roughly equal to Off-Off-Broadway.
Still, it didn't take too long for news to spread that the show will now tour the US, now with the credit that it's "Straight from Broadway!" if that should help attract midwest audiences.
But otherwise, I received about a dozen different press releases today proudly announcing that musicals that TARZAN, JERSEY BOYS, WICKED and GRINCH broke all-time sales records. WICKED, in fact, at a weekly gross of $1.7 million, broke the all-time weekly gross record for a Broadway show. Not bad for a somewhat bad musical.
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wicked is FAR from bad!