I for one, for instance, never realized that there is a play-only line (#6) at the TKTS booth and you don't have to line up with the rest of the Mamma Mia!-going crowds to get a ticket to a play! So I scooted in and picked up a tasty ticket to Glengarry Glen Ross at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Glengarry Glen Ross boasts a stellar cast: Liev Schreiber (who won the Tony for this role) Alan Alda, Frederick Weller, Tom Wopat, Gordon Clapp and Jeffrey Tambor!

Wow. Unbelievable! This is the only play in recent memory during which I didn't nod off, not even for a second. It was so well written and acted, and wonderfully economical -- I loved it. It was so much funnier than the movie! For a play that isn't a comedy I laughed a lot! Of course, I didn't have any problems with the swearing, a feeling not shared by everyone in the audience! They even sell boxes of fortune cookies at intermission that contain some of the dirtiest lines in the show! What a gas! The human drama was all still there, just in a very realistic, laughable, recognizable way.

I've always been a huge Liev Schreiber fan and he didn't disappoint. I could listen to him talk all night long. And Alan Alda was a total joy. God I love that guy! Everyone in the cast was superb. What a treat. And what a cool set. The first act is sent in a Chinese restaurant and the second act in the robbed office, complete with revolving door and fluorescent lights! Run to see it before it closes...

It was a full house last night, so I wasn't surprised when I read this article in Variety online:

The Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross," starring Alan Alda and Liev Schreiber, has gone into the black.

The Tony-winning production of David Mamet's play recouped its $2 million capitalization on Wednesday, the day of its 100th perf. Limited engagement is set to close Aug. 28.

Revival recoupment is an increasingly rare feat on Broadway these days. The Denzel Washington starrer "Julius Caesar" is the only other redux to open this season and go on to recoup. It played 81 performances.

Commercial Broadway revivals that opened and closed this year without returning their investment include "La Cage aux Folles," "The Glass Menagerie" and "On Golden Pond."

Still running but set to close in the following days are "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Steel Magnolias"; neither is expected to recoup.

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