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02.11.2022 - 01:05 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Comic monologist Mike Birbiglia has made an early Broadway splash with his new show The Old Man & the Pool, selling out his first four previews last week – the only other production with all seats filled was The Phantom of the Opera – and, Deadline can report exclusively, getting a two-week extension of his run at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool – the title references the Hemingway classic The Old Man & the Sea – will now run through January 15. The official opening night is Sunday, Nov. 13.
For the week ending Oct. 30, the show grossed $219,058 at the subscription-heavy nonprofit Vivian Beaumont, where the average ticket price was a modest $51.30. Helping fill all the venue’s seats were some of Birbiglia’s famous friends and fans Questlove, Padma Lakshmi, Nathan Lane, Frank Oz, Lucas Hedges, Michael Cerveris, Jessie Mueller, Conrad Ricamora, Elizabeth Stanley and Drew Gehling.
Overall, though, Broadway was off a bit last week, with only Phantom, ever-nearer its Feb. 18 Broadway closing, at attendance of 100% capacity. The musical grossed $1,602,986 for the week.
In all, Broadway’s 31 shows took in $27,346,822, a 4% slip from the previous week when there were three fewer productions on the boards. Attendance was about even, but average ticket price dropped from the previous week’s $125.87 to $119.63.
Coming close to sell-out status were new musical & Juliet, filling 98.89% of seats in its first two previews at the Sondheim and grossing $316,211; Funny Girl, with Lea Michele & Co. filling 98% of seats at the August Wilson for a big $1,635,860 gross; and MJ, at 99.6% of capacity, breaking yet another in a string of house records at the Neil Simon with a take of
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