Tag: Broadway theatre

President Trump on Saturday hit at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore following reports his anti-Trump Broadway show was closing after a 13-week run that fell short of its potential gross. "While not at all presidential I must point out that the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!" Trump tweeted. BroadwayWorld.com, a website that tracks Broadway ticket sales, pegged the show's final gross at about $4.2 million. In its first full week, "The Terms of My Surrender" grossed $456,195. But the show's earnings gradually sank in the weeks that followed, before seeing a surge in its final weeks. However, the show, as Trump claims in his tweet, was not forced to close. Playbill fact-checked the president's tweet writing: "While the show was not a box-office front-runner (grossing less than half of its potential most weeks and drawing in a capacity hovering in the mid 70 percentile), it did play its fully scheduled run." The anti-Trump, one-man show began previews at Broadway's Belasco Theatre on July 28, and paid tribute to the liberal director's career in film and political activism.