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New musical Paradise Square will close on July 17, after garnering a Tony win for its leading actress, but struggling at the box office.
The musical, which tells the story of Irish immigrants and Black Americans living together in New York City during the Civil War, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3. Since starting performances, the production has encountered a number of challenges, including performance cancellations due to Covid-19 cases in the cast, as well as low box office receipts throughout the run.
In the most recent week of grosses, ended July 7, the production brought in just 300,000 and played to a capacity of 55 percent. The show brought in its highest gross on record, 387,669, in the week following the Tony Awards, where Joaquina Kalukango took home the award for best leading actress in a musical and delivered a stand-out performance of “Let It Burn,...
New musical Paradise Square will close on July 17, after garnering a Tony win for its leading actress, but struggling at the box office.
The musical, which tells the story of Irish immigrants and Black Americans living together in New York City during the Civil War, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3. Since starting performances, the production has encountered a number of challenges, including performance cancellations due to Covid-19 cases in the cast, as well as low box office receipts throughout the run.
In the most recent week of grosses, ended July 7, the production brought in just 300,000 and played to a capacity of 55 percent. The show brought in its highest gross on record, 387,669, in the week following the Tony Awards, where Joaquina Kalukango took home the award for best leading actress in a musical and delivered a stand-out performance of “Let It Burn,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paradise Square, the musical that marked producer Garth H. Drabinsky’s Broadway return and won its lead actress a Tony but failed to catch on at the box office, will conclude its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with the July 17 Sunday matinee.
The closing notice was announced today, with the caveat “barring a dramatic upturn in business.”
Such an upturn is unlikely: Even after star Joaquina Kalukango’s Tony win and her show-stealing performance of the song “Let It Burn” at the June 12 awards ceremony, the musical failed to ignite at the box office. For the week ending July 3, the Barrymore was filling little more than half of its seats, even at a modest average ticket price of 70.
“We wanted to give Paradise Square every chance to succeed,” Drabinsky said in a lengthy statement (read the entire message below) “but various challenges proved insurmountable. We endured two Covid shutdowns,...
The closing notice was announced today, with the caveat “barring a dramatic upturn in business.”
Such an upturn is unlikely: Even after star Joaquina Kalukango’s Tony win and her show-stealing performance of the song “Let It Burn” at the June 12 awards ceremony, the musical failed to ignite at the box office. For the week ending July 3, the Barrymore was filling little more than half of its seats, even at a modest average ticket price of 70.
“We wanted to give Paradise Square every chance to succeed,” Drabinsky said in a lengthy statement (read the entire message below) “but various challenges proved insurmountable. We endured two Covid shutdowns,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paradise Square, the new Broadway-bound musical from producer Garth H. Drabinsky set during the history-making New York Draft Riots of the 1860s, will arrive at the Barrymore Theatre in February with several news songs added since its 2019 West Coast incarnation, including an anthemic new musical number that can’t help but summon thoughts of the galvanizing response to recent racial discord: The new number is called “Breathe Easy.”
In this new music video, debuting on Deadline, listeners can hear what Broadway audiences have in store.
The musical features a book by Christina Anderson, Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan, and a score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, with additional material provided by Masi Asare and Kirwan. The new song was written by Howland (music) and Tysen & Asare (lyrics).
In the video, recorded at New York City’s Seer Sound, the number – which includes lines like “In your...
In this new music video, debuting on Deadline, listeners can hear what Broadway audiences have in store.
The musical features a book by Christina Anderson, Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan, and a score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, with additional material provided by Masi Asare and Kirwan. The new song was written by Howland (music) and Tysen & Asare (lyrics).
In the video, recorded at New York City’s Seer Sound, the number – which includes lines like “In your...
- 9/17/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Paradise Square, the original musical from a creative team that includes Moisés Kaufman, Bill T. Jones, Craig Lucas and Black 47 singer Larry Kirwan, will begin a limited, month-long pre-Broadway engagement in Chicago on Nov. 2.
Casting and details about a Broadway engagement will be announced shortly.
The musical, set in the notorious Civil War-era Lower Manhattan Five Points slum, is produced by Garth H. Drabinsky, marking a return of the once ubiquitous Canadian theater executive following years of legal and financial woes around his former company Livent. Drabinsky, whose previous Broadway productions included Kiss of the Spider Woman, Show Boat, Ragtime and Fosse, is teamed on Paradise Square with longtime colleague Peter LeDonne, who co-produces.
Paradise Square will be the first major pre-Broadway show to open in Chicago after the pandemic shutdown. The musical will play from Nov. 2 – Dec. 5 at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre.
As described by the production,...
Casting and details about a Broadway engagement will be announced shortly.
The musical, set in the notorious Civil War-era Lower Manhattan Five Points slum, is produced by Garth H. Drabinsky, marking a return of the once ubiquitous Canadian theater executive following years of legal and financial woes around his former company Livent. Drabinsky, whose previous Broadway productions included Kiss of the Spider Woman, Show Boat, Ragtime and Fosse, is teamed on Paradise Square with longtime colleague Peter LeDonne, who co-produces.
Paradise Square will be the first major pre-Broadway show to open in Chicago after the pandemic shutdown. The musical will play from Nov. 2 – Dec. 5 at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre.
As described by the production,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced the full cast and creative team for Paradise Square An American Musical. The world premiere is helmed by acclaimed director Moises Kaufman, with choreography by the legendary Bill T. Jones and a book by Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan. Music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan, with lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and based on the songs of Stephen Foster. Paradise Square is produced by special arrangement with Garth H. Drabinsky in association with Peter LeDonne and Teatro Proscenium Limited Partnership.
- 11/7/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bronx Bombers has just announced a closing date of March 2, proving yet again that sports fans and Broadway do not make good bedfellows. There’s already a whisper in the air that the soon-to-be-vacant Circle in the Square might see Audra McDonald in a production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill a staple of regional theaters about Billie Holiday (not to be confused with last fall’s Off Broadway show Lady Day). That would complicate the Tony race for Best Actress in a Musical, which is already shaping up as a showdown between Sutton Foster (Violet), Idina Menzel...
- 2/22/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere production of the new musical Transport. With a book by world-renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally Schindler's List, the acclaimed book on which the Oscar-winning film is based and music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47, Transport follows the uneasy ocean voyage of Irish women who were sentenced and then exiled to the relatively uninhabited south coast of Australia in the mid-19th Century. Transport has direction and set design by three-time Tony Award-winning director and designer Tony Walton, and choreography by Barry McNabb Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow, Streets Of New York. Transport will be performed February 7ththrough April 6th, 2014 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage of the Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street. The Press Opening is scheduled forFebruary 16th.The cast met the press yesterday and you can check out a...
- 1/8/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre just announced the world premiere production of the new musical Transport. With book and lyrics by world-renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally Schindler's List, the acclaimed book on which the Oscar-winning film is based and music by Larry Kirwan founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47, Transport follows the uneasy ocean voyage of Irish women who were sentenced and then exiled to the relatively uninhabited south coast of Australia in the mid-19th Century. Transport has direction and set design by three-time Tony Award-winning director and designer Tony Walton, and choreography by Barry McNabb Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow, Streets Of New York. Transport will be performed February 7ththrough April 6th, 2014 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage of the Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street. The Press Opening is scheduled forFebruary 16th.
- 12/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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From an Irish Breakfast to Irish music, there are plenty of ways to spend St. Patrick’s Day. Speakeasy has put together an exhaustive, absolutely-definitive list of the Top Five. Here they are:
1. Eat an Irish Breakfast.
There’s “starch before you march” at Ulysses Folk House , 95 Pearl Street, or you can get Irish breakfast at Tir Na Nog on 5 Penn Plaza, bet. 33rd and 34th, or the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. Fitzpatrick’s Hotel on 687 Lexington (where...
From an Irish Breakfast to Irish music, there are plenty of ways to spend St. Patrick’s Day. Speakeasy has put together an exhaustive, absolutely-definitive list of the Top Five. Here they are:
1. Eat an Irish Breakfast.
There’s “starch before you march” at Ulysses Folk House , 95 Pearl Street, or you can get Irish breakfast at Tir Na Nog on 5 Penn Plaza, bet. 33rd and 34th, or the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. Fitzpatrick’s Hotel on 687 Lexington (where...
- 3/17/2012
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection James Joyce in 1904
At 8 am, there will be top hats in Bryant park, as people in Edwardian dress gather to hear some of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” Downtown at Ulysses’ pub, there will be readings, complimentary drinks, and music. And from noon to 1 am, 85 performers will read from in 135 slots from Joyce’s novel at Symphony Space for Bloomsday on Broadway’s 30th anniversary.
And that’s just New York. People will be...
At 8 am, there will be top hats in Bryant park, as people in Edwardian dress gather to hear some of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” Downtown at Ulysses’ pub, there will be readings, complimentary drinks, and music. And from noon to 1 am, 85 performers will read from in 135 slots from Joyce’s novel at Symphony Space for Bloomsday on Broadway’s 30th anniversary.
And that’s just New York. People will be...
- 6/16/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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