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Every day, paparazzi are happily snapping photos of Katie Holmes walking to work in Manhattan, looking adorable, wearing Tom Cruise's baggy jeans, a sassy new shorter do, and studious, "take me serious please" horn-rimmed glasses. (See photo below!)
But it seems the paps are the only people excited about having Katie in New York.
According to the New York Post, advance ticket sales for Holmes' first Broadway play, a revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," are not as strong as had been hoped -- to put it mildly.
One source asked the Post: "Where are all the Scientologists? Don't they want to see her?"
Ticket sales agents and brokers, who had assumed, apparently incorrectly, that Holmes would be this season's Julia Roberts, are totally bummed and shocked. Oh, please, had they not seen "Mad Money"? Because anyone who did wouldn't pay a plugged nickel to see Katie onstage.
The advance for "All My Sons," which opens in September, is said to be less than $1 million.
But here's what's gotta hurt: Tom Cruise's second wife, Nicole Kidman, made her Broadway debut in 1998 in the play "The Blue Room." Balcony seats were reportedly scalped for as much as $700 a pop, and the resulting publicity, including a Newsweek cover, helped her movie career.
But then, Nic was buck naked for a few seconds on stage. That probably helped.
Backstage at "All My Sons," buzz is that the cast is less than thrilled about being forced to sign "confidentiality agreements" regarding Katie Holmes.
Great. That's gotta be winning poor Katie lots of close friends in the production.
Holmes isn't the only celebrity sporting geeky horn-rimmed glasses to look smarter and more serious. Click here to see the Red Carpet Rewind Gallery of Hollywood's new intelligentsia.
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And I'm sure the buzz from London that Nicole Kidman got naked on stage helped ticket sales too.
If Katie wants to do well on Broadway then she should show up like everyone else without confidentiality agreements etc.
edit please. nic is tom's SECOND wife. mimi rogers was his first.
Well, I've got tickets.
Katie's a good actress. I'd hate to think people will just ignore that fact because she's married to Tom Cruise.
I have to agree with Aura. Unfortunately Katie's marriage to Tom, seems to have made the masses believe that they know anything about her. I believe that when it comes to judging ther acting, well you really cannot do that unless you see it....and Mad Money, really???? Who would ever gauge her acting ability on that? Look at Tom Hanks in the Money Pit...just remember, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but just do yourself justice and make it an educated one!
She's still proving herself. I've always thought of her as just "another" actress among the monay, having not done anything spectacular that would drive me to pay to see her.
Maybe this play should have been presented off Broadway first and see what the response would be. Calculated risk doesn't seem to be paying off.
It's no wonder she's not selling on Broadway. Her acting skills are so bad that I actually cringe watching her, from dawson's creek all the way to batman.
I dont hate Tom Cruise, he's the best actor I have seen, all his films are great. I love him in Collateral.
I think the hate campaign comes from the Drug Companies who are trying to discredit Tom Cruise announcement to the world that you need psychotic drugs. Tom Cruise is being destroyed by drug companies. We have to fight drug dealers. DO NOT JOIN the hate campaign against TOM. LETS WATCH ALL MOVIES HE MAKE. That is how we get even.
Well, well. Seems your information is incorrect, will you publish a correction?
Ticket sales for All My Sons is over the 3.5 million dollar mark already. Sounds like people do want to see Katie.
Try putting that in a huge headline.