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- <text id=90TT1582>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 67
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- The Great Green Way
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> May we have the envelope, please. And the winner for biggest
- Broadway success of the year is...the box office. During
- the 1989-90 season, which ended last week, receipts at
- Broadway's 36 stages reached a record $283 million, up 8% from
- last year and 48% from the depth of the slump in the mid-'80s.
- The past season featured the Tony Award-winning musicals City
- of Angels and Grand Hotel, along with many major stars,
- including Dustin Hoffman, Kathleen Turner and Tyne Daly.
- </p>
- <p> All told, 35 new productions reached Broadway, the most in
- three years. Higher ticket prices played a major role in the
- winning performance. Prices averaged $35.25, compared with
- $32.90 the previous year. Top prices reached $60 a head. Even
- so, attendance increased as the season wore on, boding well for
- next year's box-office returns. Observes George Wachtel, head
- researcher for the League of American Theaters and Producers:
- "Rather than having one megahit, you had a number of shows that
- have, as they say in the business, `legs.'"
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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