Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/13/2014 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.
Such a shame about BRIDGES. After spending the past few days listening to the EW sneak peek of the cast recording, I'm even more frustrated people aren't seeing it. Such a gorgeous score and brilliant performances. I hope to see it a third time before it goes.
Okay, Bridges is posting a closing notice before the nominations, almost guaranteed. Velocity won't last long, and good strong numbers for Lady Day. Good.
I wonder if "Once" will make it to Labor Day. The grosses have been failing fast the last few weeks. Velocity of Autumn has tickets to the public for sale on opening night, which is never good.
AT the the talkback at Velocity Sunday afternoon, the producers were practically begging people to get others to buy tickets and even gave out a discount code to post on social media.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
I doubt “Bridges” will be closed by the time nominations are announced. As they have been hanging in there at these grosses for weeks, it seems like they are specifically waiting for nominations. Depending on how they do, I could easily see them, then, waiting for the Tony’s, as well.
Looking at its history, Bridges has been hovering between 32-46% of its gross potential since its first week, constantly bringing in (much) less than $500k. Someone is pumping cash into it... if Brown had ever written a money-making hit, I'd think it was him, but I can't imagine he has those resources.
The nominations are two weeks from tomorrow. Anything closing before that would really be a shame. I hope the falling shows will be able to hang on until then and get a healthy boast from the nominations.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
BRIDGES producers have taken out two loans on the show thus far and they did bring in a new, but very small, group of investors several weeks ago. I have no idea how they got new people to invest but they did. They plan to wait it out until the nominations at the very least. If they do well with nominations, they plan to stay open until the Tonys. If they do not garner enough nominations, they'll close. This has all been confirmed by a prominent member of the production team.
Sutton Foster does not seem to be a big box office draw. The "Broadway Star" is truly a thing of the past.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Idina. Menzel. If/Then. If she's not a "Broadway Star", what is she? The draw to that show certainly isn't Kitt and Yorkey, and it certainly isn't LaChanze, Anthony Rapp, or James Snyder. And Idina isn't a hollywood name. So...
interesting that Sutton Foster isn't selling more tickets, she's won two Tony Awards and has been in more Broadway shows than Idina Menzel. I guess Sutton needs to do a Disney animated film.
Travolta mispronouncing her name and Frozen were definitely the two major factors behind it. Plus I assume she could still be riding on her Wicked fame.
Idina. Menzel. If/Then. If she's not a "Broadway Star", what is she?"
Lucky.
But in all seriousness, the mammoth enterprises of WICKED and FROZEN are mostly contributing to that. Not her name.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Bridges will get a lot of nominations, but that is not going to boost sales."
Right, which means we have no idea what the producers are using a barometer of what might be 'good' or not. Do a lot of nominations mean they keep throwing cash into this? Or is it just the nomination of Best Musical, for example, that they're looking for? We just do not know.
When you guys say Bridges is losing money every week, do you have any idea how much it's losing? I understand 30% of potential gross is quite little, but ow much would it need to be out of the red, 50%?