Keira Knightley the hot ticket for her upcoming stage debut in The Misanthrope

As previously posted here last week: Keira Knightley to make her West End Debut in “The Misanthrope”, looks like signing up Keira Knightley as its star (even though she has a small part) has netted The Misanthrope £1 million.

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye just posted and updated Keira's involvement and participation of the stage play, The Misanthrope in his new column/article this week that...

The hot ticket starring Keira Knightley that's made a million

Every theatre owner in London has been studying how the production marking the stage debut of Keira Knightley managed to take nearly £1million in just four days.
That's a phenomenal amount for a straight play.

Huge-budgeted musicals can take that amount in 24 hours - but that comes after the product has been advertised in newspapers and magazines, and on radio, TV and the internet.

The production of The Misanthrope, in which Keira is part of an ensemble led by Damian Lewis, in the title role, was initially revealed exclusively in this column last week.

It was only yesterday that some of the cast met to shoot an official poster for the play.
The box- office tally took ATG, owners of the Comedy Theatre, by surprise.

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