Here’s How To Read Weekly Grosses….

                                                                                 September 14, 2011

Dear Mike,

I love your column.  No, really, I do.  I look for it first thing – bleary-eyed as I always am – each Wednesday and Friday morning.  You’ve been less provocative lately, but I have hopes you’ll turn back to your earlier salty self any day now.

But, Mike, when it comes to the finances of Broadway – you know, weekly grosses, recoupment, profits, all that boring stuff – your sources are playing you for a sucker, a patsy, a chump.

And I hate to see this, since a lot of your readers know how to read the numbers and realize how badly you’re being had.