'Lucky Guy' recoups investment on Broadway
Thanks to Tom Hanks, 'Lucky Guy' recoups investment on Broadway in just 8 weeks
Tom Hanks attends the 2013 Tony Awards Meet the Nominess press reception on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 in New York. Hanks was nominated for a Tony award for best leading actor in a play, Tuesday, for his role in "Lucky Guy." (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Newcomer Tom Hanks has led "Lucky Guy" into the black.
Producers said Thursday that Norah Ephron's final work has recouped its $3.6 million capitalization only eight weeks after performances began.
"Lucky Guy," one of Broadway's toughest tickets, has been nominated for six Tony Awards, including best play. Hanks, making his debut, got a nod as a leading actor, Courtney B. Vance got one for featured actor, and George C. Wolfe earned one for directing.
In the play, Hanks plays Mike McAlary, a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized by police in 1997.
Other shows this season that recouped include the Al Pacino-led revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and the revival of "The Heiress" with Jessica Chastain.
