Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/27/2014 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.
The $20 average ticket would, in general, be a good thing to make Broadway more accessible, especially for Millennials like myself. But in this case, ouch indeed. If it doesn't get any nods tomorrow, it will be the first domino to fall.
Oh, OK, didn't realize they had 9 shows the previous week. I could see some fluctuation for some shows, but usually Wicked, Lion King, Matilda, etc., are pretty consistent.
Leap of Faith and Scandalous were also close to that figure.
"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
"Once" isn't closing. It's likely still hitting it's weekly nut and I think it'll still do well over the summer. I'd expect Once to stay around at least until the end of the year.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Prices like that aren't the producers' fault. Of course they aren't innocent in the problem or certainly victims, but remember that there's a market for it and in a market there's supply and demand.
$477 tickets would not persist if they weren't purchased. And MORMON has sold every ticket it's put on sale since it opened. So this is what the market yields. If there's disapproval of the producers, there must be equal disapproval of the purchasers of those tickets, for they allow it those prices to go on.
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.