Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackmans Broadway play breaks box-office records
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman’s star turn on Broadway is smashing box-office records.
The Hollywood actors’ play A Steady Rain has “broken box-office records and last week grossed more than $1m”, according to US reports.
The glitz of Hollywood celebrity has rubbed off on ticket sales and given Broadway one of its best autumn seasons in recent years.
Second to A Steady Rain is God Of Carnage, starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden.
And American celebrities are not the only stars boosting Broadway’s profits – Brit actor Jude Law’s appearance in Hamlet raked in $904,914 in ticket sales alone last week.
“These three current plays are doing absolutely sensational business, especially considering that the economy hasn’t fully recovered,” said the chairman of Broadway’s Shubert Organisation, Philip J Smith.
“They’ve been a huge factor in this unusually healthy [autumn] for recession-era Broadway. If only all shows were doing so well.”
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