Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/19/14- Page 2

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 5:15pm

The thing I am wondering about when it comes to how the great reviews will effect “On the Town” is the coming next few notoriously slow weeks and then, after the holidays, those dreary months leading up to the Tony nominations. “On the Town” may be beloved by theatre folks and critics, but, even with that word of mouth, it might not keep it raking in much cash during what are those notoriously slow periods (and I wouldn’t say that it’s something most tourists would jump at seeing, just from the mere fact of not being extremely familiar with it, not because they wouldn’t enjoy it). So, if the grosses for “On the Town” don’t improve (or if they fall from where they are right now), I wonder if the producers will hold out for the busier season where they are likely to earn some nominations, and possibly awards, like “Gentleman’s Guide” did.

Fall can be such a dicey time to open a show, even with an excellent show and stellar reviews. I’m interested to see how their grosses go.

Anyone heard anything on what the weekly running cost of the show is?

[Up In One]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:29pm

I hope On The Town does better than Gentleman's for that stretch if it must struggle to get to spring. The costs on OTT are much higher than Gentleman's and the theater is so much larger. Half empty theaters of that size don't inspire unqualified word of mouth.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:07pm

Both Les Miz & Sideshow have tons of dates on TDF

Does not bode well for these shows. Les Miz may become a January casualty and doubt it will be revived for quite awhile after this version. It has simply been done to many times

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:26am

A show appearing on TDF for its initial previews is pretty common and indicative of nothing.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:44am

On the Town was nearly sold out tonight. Gonna be interesting on Monday to see what the grosses are.

[TFMH18]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:50am

"On the Town was nearly sold out tonight."

I know for certain that MANY comps were given for this week's performances, so I'm not sure that filled seats in this instance will equate to big grosses, but ya never know.

[blaxx]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:27am

On the Town was nearly sold out tonight.

That means nothing regarding profits. You can sell out a theatre on $1 tickets.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:34am

Did I say anything about how much people paid for them? Maybe you and everyone else on this board should stop jumping to conclusions on what people say on this board. It's called ask a question. Not that difficult to do.

Updated On: 10/24/14 at 01:34 AM

[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 3:05am

I still think the producers are idiots for thinking ON THE TOWN could consistently sell out the enormous Lyric. If I end up eating crow, so be it. I still stand by my logic. They definitely took a risk and I hope it pays off. I'm not, however, optimistic.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 8:27am

Who says they think they have to sell it out to be successful? If they sell a lot of seats at a healthy average ticket price enough to meet their running costs or run profitably above it, it doesn't matter if they don't sell out every seat.

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:28am

"Did I say anything about how much people paid for them?"

Sold out tends to indicate people buying them, no? Unlike "the house was packed" or somesuch. Of course, if you had said that, someone would also have said most of them hadn't paid top dollar...

[Eurotrash]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:53am

On The Town is way too dated a vehicle to sell out a big theatre, every night. Shame, but there it is.

[bdn223]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 11:13am

I think the problem most of us have with the revival if On The Town is that we can't get our heads around the fact it open to rave reviews. I think most of us thought that the reaction to On The Town, would be similar to many long gestating revivals, such as Ken Davenport' Godspell. Most of us are just in shock that it opened to rave reviews. And now the shows only problem is that it's in playing in a barn which it'll never fill. It may face a similar fate to Finian's Rainbow, another classic non-Rogers and Hammerstein musical,which played the barn that is the St. James. Finian's open to raves, but could never fill the theater. Personally also think it's funny that Side Show is being revived in the St. James, because the Ragtime revival open the same year at Finian's Rainbow. Both of which opens to raves, but couldn't fill seats and closed come January. Then where forgotten come Tony season in favor of the Much-anticipated La Cage Aux Follies revival, which might happen again with the Lincoln Center revival of the King and I.

[Up In One]

Posted: 10/25/14 at 9:26am

Side Shows TDF tix disappear pretty quickly so there is at least interest. And the fact that they closed the balcony for the run limits the availability so the. "barn " effect won't play a part of its success.