Entertainment

Stars take ‘Rain’ check

Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig are two cops who don’t have to worry about where their next doughnut is coming from.

The stars of the new police drama “A Steady Rain,” now in previews, are earning nearly $100,000 each a week, according to investment papers obtained by The Post.

Their base salary is $40,000, on top of which they get a hefty percentage of the box office. Since the show’s selling out each week, their paychecks are crossing into six-figure territory.

“A Steady Rain” is running for 12 weeks, which means Jackman and Craig each will pocket a cool $1 million by the time the final curtain comes down Dec. 6.

Only a handful of Broadway stars have earned such princely sums.

Jackman did it once before as song-and-dance man Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz,” which was selling a ton of premium-priced seats by the end of its run in 2004.

Julia Roberts was said to earn more than $150,000 a week a few years ago in “Three Days of Rain.”

(Note to movie stars: If you’re going to do a Broadway play, pick one with “Rain” in the title.)

At their height, Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane each made more than $110,000 a week in both “The Producers” and “The Odd Couple.”

Broderick’s stage career has cooled (“The Philanthropist,” anyone?), but Lane remains a draw, and I predict he’s going to be the king of Broadway again this spring when “The Addams Family” comes to town.

The other members of the six-figure-a-week club include Will Ferrell, star of last season’s “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George Bush,” and Billy Crystal, who was said to have made close to $10 million during the run of “700 Sundays” a few years ago.

Broadway money will never be Hollywood money, of course. But with a hit show, a big star can do quite nicely — especially when the lifting, in a production like “A Steady Rain,” isn’t especially heavy.

“It’s a short play, and they do a couple of monologues,” notes one producer. “They don’t even have to change costumes.”

“A Steady Rain” won’t open till Sept. 29 but the limited run is pretty well sold out. Sources say advance ticket sales are around $10 million.

Prices for premium seats on the weekend have hit $375, the highest yet for a nonmusical play.

If there’s a Batman to the dynamic duo of Jackman & Craig, it’s Jackman.

He’s a bona fide Broadway star, having proved his mettle in “The Boy From Oz.”

Says one producer: “By himself, I don’t think Daniel Craig is that big of a draw. By himself, Hugh Jackman can sell out the Yellow Pages.”

When women in Broadway focus groups are asked to name their favorite male performer, Jackman almost always comes out on top.

And women buy the vast majority of theater tickets.

But they like to see their guy singing and dancing, and “A Steady Rain,” although a good play, is a downer. When they figure out that Jackman isn’t wearing leopard pants and shaking his maracas, I think the hype will fade.

Unless the boys take off their shirts.

michael.riedel@nypost.com