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August 22, 2008 | celebrity | editor | 0 Comments
Katie Holmes is just beginning her first run on Broadway in the Author Miller play, "All My Sons". It stars John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie, and it’s about a guy selling defective plane parts in WWII, yet for some reason Katie is the one getting blamed for poor ticket sales. MSNBC says…
One needs to look no further than the successes of “A Chorus Line” and “Spamalot” for proof that celebrities sell Broadway tickets, but in the case of “All My Sons,” that rule might not necessarily apply.Ticket sales for the show, which stars Katie Holmes and Patrick Wilson, are thus far “definitely off from what the production hoped,” according to a source close to “Sons.” It’s hard to know what exactly is to blame.“You can’t say it’s the economy,” says the source, “because there are shows, like ‘Mamma Mia’ that are selling out.” One possibility bandied about is that audiences are too nostalgic for Holmes’ “Dawson’s Creek” persona to clamor for tickets. “It’s not that Katie’s bad in the part. She’s good enough. The producers are just getting the feeling people still want to view Katie as sweet little Joey Potter.”
WTF are they talking about? It’s a drama about dead kids and romance and airplane parts. This shit is boring, that’s not Katie’s fault. Put her in a play called "Tits Ahoy" if you wanna sell some tickets.