Darren Criss is Really Expensive! How Much Did Broadway Have to Pay to Get Him?





Wow, so apparently Broadway producers really wanted Darren Criss (Blaine) for How to Succeed Without Really Trying … and they were willing to fork over A LOT of money to get him away from Glee for a few weeks.

According to a January 2 article in The New York Times, the producers of How to Succeed are so confident that Darren is destined to be a Broadway star that they “are betting on him to an unusual extent.”

The article states, [HTS producers] "are spending tens of thousands of dollars to rehearse and pay Mr. Criss for just three weeks of performances this month, before he returns to “Glee,” in hopes of molding him into a theater star they might build a Broadway musical around someday."

Tens of thousands of dollars — and for only three weeks? That certainly isn’t pocket change! (Any math whizzes want to figure out how much he’s costing them an hour?) That said, Playbill is reporting that the show brought in $1,910,224 for just nine performances last week at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre — a record-breaking amount for
the venue. So it doesn't sound like they're hurting too badly.

Also, the idea of some building an ENTIRE Broadway musical around Darren someday? Um YES, please!!! Where do we buy tickets to that show? We’ll take fifty.

star de brodway ! c'est pas la classe ça ? perso, j'ai jamais rêver de ca et ca m'a jamais fait rêver, mais pour lui ca doit être énorme !

par contre, on sait combien sont payer les autres ? parce que sérieux, 10 000 $ c'est énormes !
ca fait combien par show ? (je ferais bien la division moi même mais je sais pas combien y a de show)

Mon dieu, imaginer un show à Broadway écrit et fait que pour lui