Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:07pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/19/2015 in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.
Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.
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Up for the week by attendance was: AIRLINE HIGHWAY (14.5%), LIVING ON LOVE (11.0%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (9.7%), DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (2.9%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (0.4%), THE AUDIENCE (0.3%),
Down for the week by attendance was: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (-18.2%), JERSEY BOYS (-17.2%), ON THE TOWN (-16.7%), CHICAGO (-15.6%), HAND TO GOD (-15.4%), LES MISÉRABLES (-14.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-13.9%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-13.7%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-13.2%), GIGI (-12.8%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-12.7%), THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (-11.4%), MAMMA MIA! (-9.6%), WOLF HALL PARTS ONE & TWO (-8.3%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-7.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-6.8%), BEAUTIFUL (-5.6%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-4.9%), MATILDA (-4.4%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-4.4%), WICKED (-3.3%), THE LION KING (-1.8%), THE VISIT (-1.2%), ALADDIN (-0.6%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.4%), FISH IN THE DARK (-0.2%), FUN HOME (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:14pm
Yikes. Good thing summer is just around the corner.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:15pm
Ouch Living on Love and The Visit.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:16pm
why did most shows go down this week? Maybe because it was so beautiful, and hasn't been this nice in a long time, and people didn't want to be inside a dark theatre.
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#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:17pm
Spring breaks are finishing up, that's probably why. ^
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:18pm
Exactly. The week before last was inflated. It also depends on what shows had a number of press previews last week.
Updated On: 4/20/15 at 03:18 PM
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:18pm
Living on Love may not even make it to the Tony awards.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:19pm
Glad to see Wolf Hall go up so much. Wish The Visit were doing better.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
PatrickDennis92
Stand-by Joined: 9/25/12
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:20pm
An American in Paris is turning into quite the surprise box office hit. Good for them.
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:43pm
"Love..." is the kind of charmning stunt (singer in non-singing role) that brightens a summer venue, as it did last year, apparently (though plenty of reservations were voiced). But who wants to see this world-class opera star in an evening that doesn't employ her known gifts? Were she in, say, "She Loves Me," and a couple of years ago, she might've been lovely in that central role, just chosen as an example, I would imagine a sell-out. But this is a farce, and she's playing a diva, and unless the script is top of the line, why would anyone pay top dollar?
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:43pm
"Was Skylight dark this week?"
Yes it was.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 3:45pm
No Skylight perfs this week.
In addition to what's been mentioned, the other notable things at the margins are OTT (down against new competition) and HTG (up some, certainly to a sustainable level). In the grey area are 4 also ran new musicals that are clearly in the red and maybe dead.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:01pm
I wonder why THE VISIT is not papering-giving out more free tickets while in previews as they could easily give away at least 100-200 tickets per show to bring the box office to the 80-90%+ range! The gross for this week is 70.8% that's approx. 264 seats are empty each of the 8 performance as the theater seats 901.
Just saying...
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
Updated On: 4/20/15 at 04:01 PM
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:09pm
Those percentages have nothing to do with gross, but rather capacity of the theatre.
Having a full house is nice, but preferably you'd want those seats to be filled with paying patrons.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:29pm
exactly
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:32pm
Question. What's the difference between the first 14 shows, and the 20 shows beneath them?
Just a peace of my mind.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:37pm
nothing. it's just a header repeat that probably lines up with one of the screen resolutions.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 4:38pm
I don't get why THE HEIDI CHRONICLES isn't papering rather than playing to 50% capacity.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/20/15 at 9:59pm
To be fair, I'm an Anglophile, but I don't get the intensity of the aversion to London transfers. I'm gratified to see I'm not alone, as the two plays without any stars that still averaged over $100/ticket average were CURIOUS INCIDENT and WOLF HALL. CURIOUS is already an established hit (and I'm so happy for them for that) and I'm so glad they still have such strong grosses heading into Tony season.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/19/15
Posted: 4/21/15 at 10:55am
"To be fair, I'm an Anglophile, but I don't get the intensity of the aversion to London transfers. I'm gratified to see I'm not alone, as the two plays without any stars that still averaged over $100/ticket average were CURIOUS INCIDENT and WOLF HALL. CURIOUS is already an established hit (and I'm so happy for them for that) and I'm so glad they still have such strong grosses heading into Tony season."
I agree, and those two plays were my two favorite productions this season.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
