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| WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Breaks Box Office Record in Final Week on Broadway | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:26 am EDT 08/26/19 | |
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| SHATTERS BOX OFFICE RECORD IN ITS FINAL WEEK AT THE HELEN HAYES THEATER The two-time Tony Award-nominated, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and Obie Award-winning Best New American Play What the Constitution Means to Me concluded its smash-hit Broadway run by shattering the box office record at the Helen Hayes Theater. With a gross of $638,509 for the week ending 8/24, the play broke the record for highest gross of any production at the theatre in an eight performance week. The record was previously held by Rock of Ages with a gross of $583,527 for the week ending 1/4/2015. Written and performed by Pulitzer Prize finalist and three-time Obie Award winner Heidi Schreck (Grand Concourse, “I Love Dick”) and directed by Obie Award winner Oliver Butler (The Amateurs, The Light Years), What the Constitution Means to Me began previews on Broadway on March 14, 2019 and opened March 31. It was extended twice, playing 19 previews and 164 performances, and delivered a full return of capital to its investors in July with six weeks remaining on Broadway. Following the Broadway run, the production will play a special encore engagement at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater in Washington, DC from September 11-22, featuring the Broadway cast. A national tour of the play, featuring a new cast, will launch at Center Theater Group’s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in January 2020, with plans to play 40 weeks in 22 cities across the country. Heidi Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop last fall before transferring to Broadway this spring and receiving two Tony Award nominations (Best Play, Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play), two Drama Desk Award nominations (Outstanding Play, Outstanding Actress in a Play), two Drama League Award nominations (Outstanding Production of a Play, Distinguished Performance), an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination (Outstanding New Broadway Play) and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination (Best Play). It was recently named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play, and the Obie Award for Best New American Play. Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition money by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In her boundary-breaking new play, the Obie Award winner resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women in her family and the founding document that shaped their lives. This hilarious, hopeful and “achingly human” (Exeunt Magazine) exploration breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it might impact the lives of future generations. Written and performed by Pulitzer Prize finalist and three-time Obie Award winner Heidi Schreck (Grand Concourse, “I Love Dick”) and directed by Obie Award winner Oliver Butler (The Amateurs, The Light Years), What the Constitution Means to Me featured Schreck, Mike Iveson (Gatz, The Sound and the Fury) and New York City high school students Rosdely Ciprian and Thursday Williams, all in their Broadway debuts. Ben Beckley (Small Mouth Sounds First National Tour) understudies Iveson. What the Constitution Means to Me features scenic design by Rachel Hauck (Hadestown), costume design by Michael Krass (Hadestown), lighting design by Jen Schriever (Eclipsed), and sound design by Sinan Refik Zafar (Hamlet). What the Constitution Means to Me was commissioned by True Love Productions. This production originated as part of Summerworks 2017, produced by Clubbed Thumb in partnership with True Love Productions. The Clubbed Thumb, True Love Productions, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me is produced on Broadway by Diana DiMenna, Aaron Glick, Matt Ross, Madeleine Foster Bersin, Myla Lerner/Jon Bierman, Jenna Segal/Catherine Markowitz, Jana Shea/Maley-Stolbun-Sussman, Rebecca Gold/Jose Antonio Vargas, Level Forward, Cornice Productions, Lassen Wyse Balsam, and Nederlander Presentations/Kate Lear. FOR MORE INFORMATION: CONSTITUTIONBROADWAY.COM |
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| re: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Breaks Box Office Record in Final Week on Broadway | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 10:28 am EDT 08/26/19 | |
| In reply to: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Breaks Box Office Record in Final Week on Broadway - Official_Press_Release 10:26 am EDT 08/26/19 | |
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