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Disney’s Broadway Trio Combines For $4 Million Week
Disney’s three Broadway blockbusters, including its latest entry Aladdin, took in more than $4 million at the box office last week, which proved to be a slow one for much of the competition. Aladdin,...
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Scott Rudin’s Digital `Raisin’; Disney’s Underdog `Aladdin’; Jane Fonda’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Times Square is teeming this week with out-of-town producers who descend each year in the weeks before the Tony Awards to see shows and sit through seminars run by people who think they know...
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Disney’s Team ‘Aladdin’ Talks Tony Awards, Howard Ashman
I spoke separately with Tom Schumacher, head of Disney Theatricals, and composer Alan Menken about Tony best-musical nominee Aladdin, which has taken over the company's Times Square flagship, the New...
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Disney Unleashing Robin Williams’ Genie Across Its Cable Networks
Disney announced it will pay tribute to Robin Williams with special presentations of its animated film Aladdin this weekend on Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior. Williams voiced the 1992...
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Global Showbiz Briefs: Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Musical Headed To Japan; Steve...
Disney Theatrical Productions and Shiki Theatre Company are bringing Aladdin to Tokyo. This is the first international production of the Broadway musical comedy and is hitting a market where Disney's...
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‘Aladdin’&‘Beautiful’ Set House Records As Broadway B.O. Takes A 16% Holiday...
Seven Broadway shows registered $200K-plus increases during the holiday week over the previous stand, leadng to an overall rebound of 16% as a couple of house records fell and newer entries began...
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‘Aladdin’ Alights In Hamburg; Looks Like Disney’s New Global Blockbuster
Disney Theatrical Productions’ Thomas Schumacher says the second stand-alone export of Aladdin will open in fall 2015 at the Stage Theatre Neue Flora in Hamburg, Germany. That will follow the May...
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‘Book Of Mormon’ Ducats Average $214.28 As Broadway’s Holiday Box Office Booms
Sunday marked the end of the highest-grossing and best-attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway ever. The total gross was $34.1 million, $2.6 million more than the same week in 2013. Attendance, per the...
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Broadway Shows Return But Jasmine, Simba Get Extra Snow Day
2nd UPDATE, 11:15 A.M.: The nearly sold-out Jake Gyllenhaal/Ruth Wilson 70-minute two-hander Constellations also has jumped on the inclement-weather discount bandwagon. At Tuesday’s 7 P.M. and...
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Mouse Takes ‘Aladdin’ Hit Global From Times Square To Tokyo, Hamburg And Now...
UPDATE, 12:30 PM with Sydney info: The last of Alan Menken’s Disney collaborations with the late Howard Ashman (and with additional work from Tim Rice), the Genie tuner Aladdin has been a sell-out at...
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Broadway Box Office Plummets With The Mercury And Post-Holiday Blues
They’re called trends for a reason — the darned things repeat themselves with startling regularity. Attendance and ticket sales at Broadway shows fell off sharply in the wake of the...
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Chilly Broadway Box Office Stays Even; ‘The Color Purple’ Gains $102K As...
Despite a negligible dip in the overall Broadway box office last week, several shows had reason to cheer through the January blahs. Three musicals showed significant (i.e. >$100K) gains over the...
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Broadway Box Office Flat; ‘Hamilton’, ‘Waitress’, ‘Aladdin’ Among SROs
Broadway’s Week 6 didn’t exactly end with fireworks, as total box office for 29 shows was $26,033,649, down from last week’s $29 million take for 32 shows. Gone were The King & I, Bright Star and...
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‘Cats’ Stares Down Summer Dog Days, ‘Motown’ Wilts: Broadway Box Office
Cats notwithstanding, Broadway headed into the summer dog days with a dip in box office, as ticket sales for Week 10 (ending July 31) slipped about 4% from the previous week to $25M. The total gross...
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Broadway Box Office Dips; ‘Hamilton’&‘Aladdin’ Among Trend-Buckers
Broadway box office for Week 11 ending August 7 was down 5.6% from the previous week to $24.1M, a drop in keeping with a trimmer roster (two productions — Fully Committed and Motown the Musical — had...
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Guy Ritchie To Direct Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ For Disney
Guy Ritchie is in talks with Disney to direct Aladdin, the latest in the studio’s efforts to re-imagine classic properties for contemporary audiences. Big Fish scribe John August has written the...
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Will Smith In Talks For Genie Role In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Aladdin’
EXCLUSIVE: Will Smith is in talks to take on the genie role made famous by the late Robin Williams in Disney’s live-action Aladdin from Guy Ritchie, we hear. The adaptation of the animated feature...
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Will Smith, Mena Massoud Set For ‘Aladdin’, Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Gets Release...
There is a long list of news coming out of the live-action presentations at the D23 Expo. At the top of the list is the announcement of Tim Burton’s Dumbo. The live-action adaptation of the 1941...
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Numan Acar Cast In Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Remake
Numan Acar has been cast in Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake, which is being directed by Guy Ritchie. He’s joining Will Smith as Genie as well as Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott, in the roles of...
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