Broadway Grosses: Merchant Returns With $1 Million in Its Cash Register
Winter doldrums? Not at the Broadhurst Theatre, where Al Pacino is back for a final three weeks in The Merchant of Venice, racking up more than $1 million in just seven performances. Who says people don't care about Shakespeare? Meanwhile, on an eight-show week, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark topped the grosses list—and made the front page of the Sunday New York Times with Joan Rivers’ suggestion that …