UPDATED Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/2/14

[Rob]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 4:19pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/2/2014 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: BRONX BOMBERS (10.3%), MACHINAL (5.9%), MOTHERS AND SONS (3.6%), CHICAGO (0.7%),

Down for the week by attendance was: ONCE (-23.0%), JERSEY BOYS (-15.8%), ROCKY (-14.4%), PIPPIN (-13.9%), CINDERELLA (-12.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-11.0%), THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (-9.7%), BEAUTIFUL (-9.5%), ROCK OF AGES (-9.3%), NO MAN'S LAND/WAITING FOR GODOT (-8.5%), AFTER MIDNIGHT (-7.9%), NEWSIES (-7.1%), KINKY BOOTS (-6.3%), MATILDA (-5.1%), ALL THE WAY (-4.8%), OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (-3.0%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-2.1%), THE LION KING (-1.0%), WICKED (-0.9%), MAMMA MIA! (-0.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.2%),

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[newintown]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 4:27pm

Can't imagine that Bridges can last long with numbers that low.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 4:34pm

A few ouches here this week, starting to worry about Jersey Boys.

If the following shows played a full 8 show week, then there gross potential based on the gross they have made last week.

Aladdin - 1.106.899
Les Miserables - 1.446.968
Rocky - 630.057

I know what one I would start to worry about already.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 4:35pm

Even with the good reviews for Kelli O'Hara the grosses for THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY are discouraging. I'm sure it is not an expensive show to run but when you are only making 39% of your potential gross and the average ticket price is less than half of the full top ticket price, the producers have some soul (and pocketbook) searching to do. This might have done better as a limited run at a not-for-profit theater (and given Sher's and O'Hara's history with LCT they should have done it at the Newhouse).

[NewSynchopation]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 5:01pm

Why such a large drop for Once?

[mikem]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 5:03pm

The chart says that Aladdin is at 93% of potential gross with an average ticket price of $80. That seems off to me. For example, Matilda had a similar percent of seats filled and a ticket price of $87 but is only at 75% of potential gross. Is there something weird about the configuration of the New Amsterdam where there are a lot of low-priced tickets?

Gentlemen's Guide and Bridges have pretty similar grosses ($388K vs $390K) and gross potential percentages. I haven't seen either one; do you think the budgets are similar? Neither gross is good enough for a long run.

[NewSynchopation]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 5:31pm

I know that Bridges' nut is a lot higher than Gentleman's is.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 6:02pm

I think Aladdin had discounts when it open bookings, I imagine the gross potential will be higher when the discounts have finished later on plus the New Amsterdam has a balcony which likely lowers the gross potential as well.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:00pm

a bad week all around. the cold weather has to be keeping people away from NYC. Spring needs to arrive quickly.

[evic]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:24pm

It will be sad if Les Miz is this season's blockbuster. As good as the show is.....enough. It is turning into another Gypsy. Post Tonys will be especially brutal with many shows closing.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:53pm

It would be GREAT if Les Miserables turns out to be a blockbuster. Broadway can only benefit from a successful show. Time will tell. Which shows seem to be on shaky ground? I noticed that Cinderella registered a significant drop from the previous week. Less than 3 weeks till Spring.

[ethan231h]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 6:57am

broadway already has successful shows like Pippin, Wicked, Book of Mormon, Matilda and many more the last les miz revival only lasted for a year and a half

[philly03]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 7:32am

The last Les Mis revival was actually a limited engagement to celebrate the show's becoming the world's longest running musical, but got extended a few times. What a thrill to see performers like Lea Salonga, Judy Kuhn and John Owen-Jones in it.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 8:09am

Cinderella at 47% flog potential gross. Guess Carly Rae isn't dragging the teens in. Given it is winter and they are in school not the best stunt casting idea. Need to bring the adult tourists in during the winter. Summer is for the teena

[jnb9872]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 8:48am

Teena Marie?

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 9:02am

Haha. Teens. But Teena Marie may have helped!

[binau]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 10:56am

"Need to bring the adult tourists in during the winter."

Which is exactly why they have Fran, and at the Saturday Matt I saw + stagedoor afterwards it was clear that the audience were there to see her. They should have said they show was starring "Call me Maybe Girl" and Fran because I don't think many people know who Carly actually is.

"The last Les Mis revival was actually a limited engagement to celebrate the show's becoming the world's longest running musical, but got extended a few times"

Was it truly a limited engagement in the sense that the theatre had the next booking already lined up? Producers want to make money so I could easily imagine it was a "limited engagement" that would have certainly become an indefinite open-ended run if the ticket sales were there.


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I find ALL THE WAY interesting. People are willing to shell out the big $$ to see the show but the theatre is just too large to sell all those Mezz tickets.

Updated On: 3/4/14 at 10:56 AM

[evic]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:03pm

I hope Les Miz is a hit and of course it will be. What I meant was that with so many shows opening, it will be a shame that a revival could be the biggest hit of the season.