Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:11pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/5/2015 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: GIGI (12.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (11.3%), FINDING NEVERLAND (5.0%), MAMMA MIA! (4.3%), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (3.8%), ON THE TOWN (3.0%), THE LION KING (0.8%), BEAUTIFUL (0.4%),
Down for the week by attendance was: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (-16.4%), THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (-12.3%), FUN HOME (-10.0%), HAND TO GOD (-8.5%), IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (-8.5%), THE VISIT (-8.0%), WOLF HALL PARTS ONE & TWO (-6.7%), CHICAGO (-6.6%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-6.4%), KINKY BOOTS (-6.2%), JERSEY BOYS (-6.0%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (-4.6%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-4.3%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-3.8%), WICKED (-3.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.2%), THE AUDIENCE (-1.0%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-0.4%), SKYLIGHT (-0.3%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-0.2%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:24pm
Kudos to Honeymoon, for making it all the way up to an all-time high 5th Worst Selling Show for its last week! (Besting Hand to God, The Visit, The Heidi Chronicles, and It Shoulda Been You.)
Tony, Jason, Andy, and Gary - take a bow.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:26pmA lot of these new shows are really struggling. Yikes.
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:28pm
Honeymoon certainly went out with a whimper.
It Shoulda Been You and The Visit are gonna need some stellar reviews and word-of-mouth to help them. Living on Love, even in its first weekend and with heavy papering and dirt-cheap tickets, may need assistance, too.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:28pm
Yeah I'm sure most of them will be gone before the end of the summer
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Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:29pm
Nice bounce for GIGI. It was spring break so there where a lot of young teens/college students looking for entertainment.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:29pm
You're not sticking up for It Shoulda Been You, Philly? I'm shocked!
Zhivago needs help too. That's not a cheap show to run.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:29pm
The Passover/Easter weekend looks like to really hurt some shows. This week should be a strong week overall with a lot of schools on spring break. And even though OTT still isn't reaching it's weekly nut, their overall attendance has been increasing. Hopefully that'll continue to increase through the spring.
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#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:31pm
Clearly, a lot of these shows are banking on critical and award recognition. I doubt that they'll get it.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:32pm
Great week for Les Miserables, Finding Neverland and Aladdin. The Heidi Chronicles is really struggling. That does not bother me too much since it means that people are not interested in seeing Jason Biggs, who is just bland and robotic in all of his work.
Updated On: 4/6/15 at 03:32 PM#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:32pm
It Shoulda Been You, Living on Love, Hand to God are the only shows that are doing bad that I think can make it.
Fun Home, The Visit, Doctor Zhivago, and Airline Highway are ****ed
unless Fun Home wins best musical
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Updated On: 4/6/15 at 03:32 PM
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:33pmAirline Highway is a nonprofit show, dear.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:34pm
don't they still have to break even? They didn't even make 100,000. Theres a lot of people in that cast
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Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:35pm
Wolf Hall did dip but it's still doing better than the other new shows and it's in a theatre normally used for musicals, I imagine it'll pick up next week and also once the reviews come in.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:36pm
Philly, Airline Highway is far from f***ed. MTC is a non-profit theatre. The show will finish its scheduled run regardless of gross.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:36pm
are previews always this bad at the box office? Maybe people are uninterested this season. That or Broadway is dying haha
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:38pm
No, they don't still have to "break even."
I think lots of these new shows are hurting because they're all opening at the same time.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:39pm
FUN HOME hit just over 50% of it's gross potential. That's hardly "f***ed". I can see that percentage going up over the next few weeks.
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:39pm
"don't they still have to break even? They didn't even make 100,000. Theres a lot of people in that cast"
It only did 6 performances and even then non profits don't need to break even since the running costs are included in the budgets
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:40pm
"Great week for Les Miserables, Finding Neverland and Aladdin. The Heidi Chronicles is really struggling. That does not bother me too much since it means that people are not interested in seeing Jason Biggs, who is just bland and robotic in all of his work. "
Granted, I doubt Jason Biggs was supposed to be the draw here but he's actually keeping me from seeing the show.
I'm also not worried about Fun Home. I think it'll get raves and business will really take off.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:42pm
yeah idk. Unless it wins Best Musical, which it probably will, i wouldn't normally think this show would be a hit. I think people just want to laugh these days and see a comedy.
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#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:44pm
Fun Home is actually doing pretty well in its first weeks. It has a higher average ticket price than most of its competitors and is getting people in its seats. It has excellent word of mouth and it seems doubtful critics will reverse their praise for its Broadway run.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:44pm
Neon hit the nail on the head i think. Everyone wants to open right before Tony nominations so they are fresh in the voters minds. But the downside to this is that there is only so much theatre one has time for. I am trying my best to see everything before nominations come out, but given the April onslaught I just don't have time to catch them all right now. (I also have to refrain from spending all my money on tickets so that I can ya know, eat and pay rent). I do wonder if something like It Shoulda Been You would have done better in the fall, with less new competition. Theres tons of stars right now, but Daly and Harris would have been some of the biggest marquee names of the fall...then again Sting and Danza didnt sell tickets then either so who knows.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:45pm
Philly, can you stop pretending like you know everything about theatre from a business or even patron standpoint? You make yourself look really stupid by talking out of your @ss about things you know nothing about.
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#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5/15
Posted: 4/6/15 at 3:48pm
Philly, this thread alone shows how incredibly ignorant you are. Do you not understand how non-profit productions work? They are always heavily subsidized by benefactors, sponsorships, and grants. They do not need to break even. Go do some research, please.
