Mike Birbiglia’s ‘The Outdated Man & the Pool’ Will get Broadway Extension – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian monologist Mike Birbiglia has made an early Broadway splash together with his new present The Outdated Man & the Pool, promoting out his first 4 previews final week – the one different manufacturing with all seats crammed was The Phantom of the Opera – and, Deadline can report solely, getting a two-week extension of his run at Lincoln Heart’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Mike Birbiglia: The Outdated Man & the Pool – the title references the Hemingway traditional The Outdated Man & the Sea – will now run by January 15. The official opening night time is Sunday, Nov. 13.

For the week ending Oct. 30, the present grossed $219,058 on the subscription-heavy nonprofit Vivian Beaumont, the place the typical ticket value was a modest $51.30. Serving to fill all of the venue’s seats had been a few of Birbiglia’s well-known mates and followers Questlove, Padma Lakshmi, Nathan Lane, Frank Oz, Lucas Hedges, Michael Cerveris, Jessie Mueller, Conrad Ricamora, Elizabeth Stanley and Drew Gehling.

Total, although, Broadway was off a bit final week, with solely Phantom, ever-nearer its Feb. 18 Broadway closing, at attendance of 100% capability. The musical grossed $1,602,986 for the week.

In all, Broadway’s 31 reveals took in $27,346,822, a 4% slip from the earlier week when there have been three fewer productions on the boards. Attendance was about even, however common ticket value dropped from the earlier week’s $125.87 to $119.63.

Coming near sell-out standing had been new musical & Juliet, filling 98.89% of seats in its first two previews on the Sondheim and grossing $316,211; Humorous Lady, with Lea Michele & Co. filling 98% of seats on the August Wilson for an enormous $1,635,860 gross; and MJ, at 99.6% of capability, breaking one more in a string of home data on the Neil Simon with a take of $1,810,272.

Take Me Out, final summer season’s hit baseball drama, returned to Broadway for its second inning, getting off to a warming-up begin of $341,984 for 5 performances on the Brooks Atkinson, filling about 64% seats.

The Piano Lesson, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks, continued to steer the pack of the lately arrived play revivals, filling 85% of seats on the Barrymore for a formidable $918,748 gross.

Virtually Well-known, the musical adaptation of the 2000 hit movie, opens this Thursday, and final week was at 77% of capability on the Jacobs, grossing $575,345 with a $91.18 common ticket value.

The Kite Runner noticed a field workplace bump in its ultimate week of performances, taking $431,556 on the Helen Hayes, a soar of $50,201. Newcomer Strolling With Ghosts, the one-man-show starring Gabriel Byrne, had its opening night time final week, so press and different comps took their toll on receipts; nonetheless the play took in simply $176,996 on the Music Field, filling about 62% of seats with a $42.03 common ticket value.

And nonetheless on the egregiously undeserved decrease finish of the monetary roster was Topdog/Underdog, an excellent manufacturing of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, that includes Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II giving two of the best performances on any present Broadway stage. The present needs to be a success. Final week it crammed simply 68% of seats on the Golden, grossing $277,846 with a mean ticket value of $63.23, far and away Broadway’s finest discount.

Season up to now, Broadway has grossed $639,970,601, with whole attendance of 5,030,438 at about 87% of capability.

The 31 productions reporting figures on Broadway final week had been & Juliet, 1776, Aladdin, Virtually Well-known, Beetlejuice, The E-book of Mormon, Chicago, Price of Dwelling, Demise of a Salesman, Humorous Lady, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one, Into the Woods, Kimberly Akimbo, The Kite Runner, KPOP, Leopoldstadt, The Lion King, Mike Birbiglia: The Outdated Man & the Pool; The Music Man, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, The Piano Lesson, Six, A Unusual Loop, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog, Strolling With Ghosts and Depraved.

All figures courtesy of The Broadway League.