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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Caitlin Hornik

How Hollywood took over Broadway and obliterated box office records

There’s no business like show business. Broadway proved that once and for all this year with its record-breaking box office take of $1.89 billion, fueled by a superstar-heavy run of shows.

Treading the boards this year were Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal taking on Shakespeare’s Othello, newly minted Oscar winner Kieran Culkin in Glengarry Glen Ross, and George Clooney making his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck.

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