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Article snippet: Larry and Cathy Roppelt, 44 years married, made a nearly two-hour trek into Manhattan from Medford, Long Island, on a recent evening for a rare occasion: a Broadway show. They chose “A Bronx Tale” for one reason. “It’s our era,” Mr. Roppelt remarked during intermission, in a gruff accent that could have fit right onstage at the doo-wop heavy musical set in the 1960s. “This is the music that we grew up with.” “A Bronx Tale,” a $10 million show based on the 1993 movie, is not a musical that will win plaudits for innovation. It won’t win anything at all at the Tony Awards on June 11 because it went unrecognized in the recent nominations. But in a highly competitive season that featured 13 new musicals, a show that many critics called forgettable has turned out to be much like its protagonist: a scrappy survivor. Even without a star like Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!” or the acclaim and box-office juice of a “Dear Evan Hansen,” the show has been a solid seller since its December opening. “A Bronx Tale” has been grossing, on average, more than $800,000 a week. Michael David, the show’s executive producer, said it has not had a losing week, although he declined to disclose the weekly running costs. For comparison, for the week of May 15, the most recent week with available data, “Dear Evan Hansen,” which is up for best musical and eight other Tonys, took in $1.25 million in eight performances; “Hello, Dolly!” grossed $1.93 million in seven performances and is up for 1... Link to the full article to read more