Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would quiz myself on how many numbers I knew by heart. The last time I counted, it was 450." She gestures to the push-buttons on her console. "I know a lot of them just by the pattern of the numbers. Like I'll know a number is a box in the top corner--something like that." She stops and thinks for a moment, and then breaks out laughing. "I guess I'd be totally shot on a dial phone...
...about how George Allen was creating a winning team out of the well-known "Over the Hill Gang," or how poorly he and Cooke were getting along. (Allen, as almost every football fan in the country knows, will not coach a team unless he has total control over the box office, the front office, and the playing field...
...response of theater parties has been notably nil. Says Ronald Lee, president of Group Sales Box Office: "We listed the show in our Broadway gram, which reaches the leaders of 20,000 theater groups, and didn't get one bite." McCann thinks it's not the price that keeps people away, but the show's length. "They need to be convinced that they can sit for 8% hours and still enjoy themselves." The question should not be whether you can sit still, but whether, as Nickleby unfolds, you will ever want to leave. If the show plays to empty seats...
...theater folk welcome Nicholas Nickleby to help launch the new season, they can look back on the 1980-81 year and pat their pocketbooks with pride. Attendance was 11 million, up 15% from the record-breaking year before, and box-office receipts tallied $196.9 million, almost quadruple those of the 1969-70 doldrums. A new generation of out-of-town and foreign visitors who love New York also love the New York theater; one-fourth of Broadway ticket buyers are from outside the metropolitan area. A new generation of entertainment consumers, attracted by television commercials, half-price tickets made available...
Producer-Director Hal Prince attributes Broadway's boffo box office to "a very few very big hit musicals. The moneymen tend to become cautious when they see how huge the profit is with those shows ?and how big a gamble trying anything else is." Producer Alexander H. Cohen puts it another way: "Broadway is too successful. Hit shows are running longer, and there are fewer theaters available than in the past. That makes for a major booking squeeze. With space at a premium, the theater owners may soon be closing shows that are making a profit in order...