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By: Jul. 07, 2009
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/5 & Algonquin Round Table Quote of the Week
by Michael Dale - July 07, 2009

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
-- Robert Benchley

 

The grosses are out for the week ending 7/5/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (9.5%), IN THE HEIGHTS (4.4%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (4.4%), MAMMA MIA! (2.8%), WAITING FOR GODOT (1.0%), MARY STUART (0.1%),

Down for the week was: SOUTH PACIFIC (-8.8%), WEST SIDE STORY (-8.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-6.9%), CHICAGO (-6.7%), AVENUE Q (-6.5%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (-5.5%), THE LION KING (-4.1%), HAIR (-3.8%), 9 TO 5 (-2.0%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.8%), THE 39 STEPS (-1.7%), MARY POPPINS (-1.6%), GOD OF CARNAGE (-1.4%), NEXT TO NORMAL (-1.1%), BLITHE SPIRIT (-0.2%), WICKED (-0.2%), ROCK OF AGES (-0.1%),


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