Tony Lo Bianco, who never invested in a Broadway show before, put some money into “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” and seems to be keeping a sharp eye on the bottom line.
“This week,” he told me, “we are running at a 101.2 percent Gross Potential Profit, which is higher than ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Jersey Boys.’
“…At the closing Sunday of “Mothers and Sons” on Broadway, Marlo Thomas was asked by a theatergoer to stop crunching her bag of snacks. Thomas just assumed she was at the movies
…Toni Collette, now starring on Broadway in “The Realistic Joneses,” didn’t want to give up her Global Ambassador statuette at the Concern Worldwide luncheon Tuesday at the Pierre.
Bettina Cirone reports that when a young woman tried to take it from her to wrap it, Collette said, “You mean I can’t keep caressing it?”