Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" isn't for everybody, but this serious/humorous/surreal look at Rev. Martin Luther King's last night, April 3 , 1968 has turned out to be "one of the highest grossing plays" in the 50-year history of Center Stage, the company reports.
As a postdoc in FitzGerald's lab, Tilo Grosser played a big role in the Cox-2 work.
By the Spring of 2008, the production had become the highest grossing play on Broadway, earning the duo, countless awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2010.
But the jauntiness of this Actors' Gang production makes it possible to endorse and extend Theseus' generous review: "This palpable-gross play hath well beguil'd/The heavy gait of night".
These grosses were accumulated with only six to seven performances a week; on his only full eight-performance week, Crystal set a then-new record weekly gross for plays of $1,061,089.
What it really was was a gross power play by Governor Brewer to ensure a more Republican-friendly map.
Roslyn Goldmacher, another honoree and executive director of the Long Island Development Corporation, said the approximately 35,000 female-owned businesses on Long Island, including some of the largest grossing companies, play a very significant role in the local economy.
The average gross for straight plays was $540,477, compared to $362,307 for the same week in fall 2010 and $439,329 for the comparable week in 2009.
Last week, at least, the average gross for straight plays on Broadway was far higher than comparable data in recent seasons, according to figures kept by the Broadway League, the trade association of theater owners and producers.
(Why are all these women white? In part, because playing "gross" is a riskier move for women of color a subject for a different essay).
