‘A Steady Rain’ Sets a Broadway Sales Record

By Dave Itzkoff

Greg Williams Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman star as cops in the Broadway play “A Steady Rain.”

It turns out that if you put two stars of some of Hollywood’s highest grossing movies in a Broadway play together, that production will also make a lot of money. On Tuesday, the producers of the play “A Steady Rain,” which stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, said that the show had broken the record for the highest weekly gross of a non-musical production on Broadway. In a news release, press representatives for “A Steady Rain” said that the play posted a weekly gross of $1,167,954 for the week ending Sept. 20. (This sum was also a house record at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.) The record for non-musical productions on Broadway was previously held by the Billy Crystal show “700 Sundays,” which grossed $1,061,688 for the week ending May 22, 2005. “A Steady Rain,” which is written by Keith Huff and directed by John Crowley opens on Tuesday night and is slated to run through Dec. 6.