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Broadway Blog - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/23 & Algonquin Round Table Quote of the Week

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's blogs from Monday, August 24, 2009. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from BroadwayWorld.com's bloggers!

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/23 & Algonquin Round Table Quote of the Week
by Michael Dale - August 24, 2009

"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about miNe You wouldn't sit in the same room with me."

-- Dorothy Parker

 

The grosses are out for the week ending 8/23/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: AVENUE Q (4.6%), MARY POPPINS (1.0%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (0.1%),

Down for the week was: BURN THE FLOOR (-22.6%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (-8.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-7.6%), 9 TO 5 (-7.0%), WEST SIDE STORY (-6.5%), ROCK OF AGES (-3.2%), CHICAGO (-3.2%), SOUTH PACIFIC (-2.9%), IN THE HEIGHTS (-2.5%), MAMMA MIA! (-2.4%), HAIR (-2.4%), NEXT TO NORMAL (-1.7%), THE LION KING (-0.5%), JERSEY BOYS (-0.2%), THE 39 STEPS (-0.1%),


Theater Fans' Choice Awards
2026 Theater Fans' Choice Awards - Live Stats
Best Orchestrations - Top 3
1. Ethan Popp, The Rescues - The Lost Boys
24.4% of votes
2. Anders Eljas, Brian Usifer - Chess
12.9% of votes
3. William David Brohn - Ragtime
12.9% of votes

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