INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 10/11

By: Oct. 11, 2016
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Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 10/9/2016.

Amongst many shows bouncing back this week, WAITRESS once again broke the house record for the highest single performance gross at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre at $158,237 on Saturday, October 8, evening performance. (The previous record was also set by WAITRESS back on Saturday, June 25, with a gross of $153,794.)


Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON $2,214,118
THE LION KING $2,055,928
WICKED $1,719,802
ALADDIN $1,535,611
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,417,234


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
HEISENBERG ($334,446), THE CHERRY ORCHARD ($334,683), THE ENCOUNTER ($336,865), HOLIDAY INN ($404,315), FALSETTOS ($404,430)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

WICKED $351,452
SCHOOL OF ROCK $287,396
ALADDIN $224,843
THE LION KING $193,895
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $182,104


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
THE COLOR PURPLE ($-759), HEISENBERG ($10,708), THE CHERRY ORCHARD ($11,715), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY ($19,934), THE ENCOUNTER ($38,948)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON $205.87
THE BOOK OF MORMON $162.68
THE LION KING $152.56
THE FRONT PAGE $129.31
WICKED $124.36


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
HOLIDAY INN ($61.19), HEISENBERG ($66.65), THE ENCOUNTER ($68.08), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY ($68.66), FALSETTOS ($73.56)


Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

HAMILTON 113.95%
THE BOOK OF MORMON 105.3%
THE LION KING 102.52%
THE FRONT PAGE 96.87%
WICKED 96.63%


Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
HOLIDAY INN (41.73%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (43.01%), THE ENCOUNTER (46.44%), HEISENBERG (46.93%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (47.0%)


Top 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

THE BOOK OF MORMON 102.2%
HAMILTON 101.8%
THE FRONT PAGE 100.3%
BEAUTIFUL 100.0%
THE LION KING 99.3%


Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (58.4%), ON YOUR FEET! (61.9%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (62.7%), PARAMOUR (72.7%), KINKY BOOTS (72.9%)


Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

FALSETTOS 2531
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 1946
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 1690
SCHOOL OF ROCK 1627
WICKED 1620


Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
THE CHERRY ORCHARD (-454), THE ENCOUNTER (-398), THE COLOR PURPLE (-126), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-43), THE HUMANS (-26)

That's all for this week... Other statistics that you'd like to see? Let us know!


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