Broadway Exports: Business Leaps
The musical “Tarzan,” a relative flop on Broadway, has been a monster hit in the Netherlands. (Maybe that’s why they lost the World Cup.) In Korea, boy actors in “Billy Elliot” didn’t want to use the show’s profanity. (“Such languages are not often publicly said in Korea,” explained the show’s producer there.) And in Japan, theatregoers can fill up on “Original Wicked Roll Cake,” with green-tea-flavored cream filling, at the intermission of “Wicked.” These are all examples of the big business overseas for Broadway musicals.
