Every Thursday evening, actors and staff of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows compete in the Broadway Show Bowling League. Games are played from midnight to 2 AM at Port Authority's Leisure Time Bowling Alley (West 41st St. at 8th Ave.) in New York. Playbill On-Line will post League standings weekly. Several teams have stayed together long after their shows have closed. The final results of the season will be posted next week.The next season begins May 28.
Rankings courtesy of David Bean/Broadway Show Bowling League.
Broadway Show Bowling League Standings, May 7
Rank. Team Name (Show Name)
1. Minnie's Boys (Mixed)
2. Bowl Jest (Beau Jeste)
3. Red & Black (Les Miserables)
4. Bowlevard (Sunset Boulevard)
5. J Pin Morgans (Ragtime)
6. Stage Hooks (Mixed)
7. Rent-A-Nun (Rent, Nunsense)
8. Theatre X (Mixed)
9. Bowl A'Gin (My Fair Lady)
10. Ta Ta Babe (Goodbye Girl)
11. Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde)
12. Used Faces of '98 (Mixed)
13. Formerly Funny (Forum)
14. Ray City Rollers (Radio City Music Hall)
15. Scarlet Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)
16. Indecent Pink Slips (Gross Indecency)
17. Small Ho House (The King and I)
18. White Star Lanes(Titanic)
19. Smokey Joes' Hyde-A-Way(Jekyll and Hyde)
20. The Supernumeraries (Mixed)
21. Wedding Balls (Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding)
22. The '76ers (1776)
23. Happy Hookers (The Life)
24. Wo Hop (Mixed)
25. Tragedy Tonight (Forum)
26. Beasty Bunch (Beauty and the Beast)
27. Disaster Strikes (Titanic)
28. We Did! We Did! (I Do! I Do!)
29. When Pigs Bowl (When Pigs Fly)
30. Up Your Alley (Ragtime)
High Game Scratch--Male 222 Robert Glean 199 Kevin Early 198 Michael Michalski |
High Game Scratch--Female 200 Christiane Noll 196 Marcia Olivo 183 Eileen Tepper |
High Series Scratch--Male 369 Robert Glean 357 Michael Michalski 355 Greggory Brandt |
High Series Scratch--Female 331 Marcia Olivo 320 Diane Martella 316 Christiane Noll |
High Game Scratch--Team 694 Minnie's Boys 653 Red & Black 648 Bowlevard |
High Series Scratch--Team 1377 Minnie's Boys 1291 Bowlevard 1287 Red & Black |