Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:03pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/12/2015 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: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (25.7%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (15.5%), KINKY BOOTS (12.7%), THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (11.7%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (9.3%), HAND TO GOD (9.3%), ON THE TOWN (8.5%), FUN HOME (7.8%), JERSEY BOYS (7.8%), BEAUTIFUL (7.0%), AIRLINE HIGHWAY (6.7%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (6.2%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (6.0%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (4.6%), WICKED (4.5%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (3.7%), WOLF HALL PARTS ONE & TWO (3.6%), SKYLIGHT (3.2%), DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (3.1%), FINDING NEVERLAND (2.5%), THE AUDIENCE (0.5%), THE VISIT (0.5%),
Down for the week by attendance was: GIGI (-13.1%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-10.6%), LIVING ON LOVE (-6.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-5.2%), MAMMA MIA! (-4.7%), LES MISÉRABLES (-4.2%), CHICAGO (-3.9%), THE LION KING (-1.2%), MATILDA (-0.5%),
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:08pmBefore anyone asks, it was press week for Shoulda Been You. Hence the jump in attendance.
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:17pm
Living on Love is barely living at all.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:18pm
WOW, the avg. ticket price for the Visit... $44... yikes!
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:20pm
thats because the average ticket price was $34. You said they gave out a lot of comps anyway
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#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:24pm
The Heidi Chronicles and On the Town are doing better. Hand to God is still doing bad even after all the great word of mouth, and fantastic reviews.
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evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:25pm
If The Visit doesn't make it , it will be the second crime of the decade; the first being the brilliant The Scotsboro Boys closing prematurely. 2 great K+E shows. I know these are not the choice for tourists, but such great theater. Oh well.....there's always Mama Mia.
BosBroad
Stand-by Joined: 7/9/10
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:32pm
Wow. That's even wore for LoL than I expected.
Well.... even divas need reality checks once in a while.
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:36pm
PhillyPinto: Hand to God's numbers are low, but considering their show likely has the lowest weekly running costs of any show on Broadway, it is likely doing about as well as Heidi Chornicles, It Shoulda Been You or On the Town, and much better than Living on Love or The Visit.
Updated On: 4/13/15 at 03:36 PM#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:38pm
why do you think Living on Love is so expensive? I still feel like On the Town isn't making its nut even after a decent week
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:39pm
HAND TO GOD's gross went up by nearly $70K during a week that included a heavily comped opening night performance, so that's a good indication it is on a upward trend. Since the reviews were published late on Tuesday there wasn't that much time for them to have an affect on this past week's grosses, so this coming week(s) will be a much better indication of the show's long term viability.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:42pm
I just started a thread telling folks to go see Hand to God, so expect their grosses to go up markedly next week.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:44pm
I don't think Living on Love is super expensive, but hand to god has a smaller cast, and none of the cast members are big names whereas renee flemming likely demands a slightly higher salary. In addition Living on Love is at a slightly larger theater. I haven't seen the production yet so I can't speak for costume/set costs.
Updated On: 4/13/15 at 03:44 PM
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:51pm
Again, as has been rehearsed many times, grosses have to be evaluated in the context of each show's nut. Of the new shows, there are a few that are in serious trouble (Visit and LOL being the most extreme and being questionable even to Tony time), a few doing exceptionally well (Neverland is the leader of that pack) and quite a few that are in "watch" mode and will likely be around at tony time and maybe beyond depending on demographics and marketing. HTG has a low gross but it should have a positive cash flow, and OTT actually made money this week, something you can't say about Shoulda. This is an interesting frame, maybe the most interesting of the season, and not without its surprises.
Updated On: 4/13/15 at 03:51 PM
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:57pm
"Hand to God is still doing bad even after all the great word of mouth, and fantastic reviews."
Is it possible though that a lot of the people who wanted to see the show (and aren't going to back again) have already seen it? I mean, it's not like the other productions were even in another country or state. If you wanted to see the show you would have had opportunities to see it before its Broadway run.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 3:59pm
"why do you think Living on Love is so expensive? I still feel like On the Town isn't making its nut even after a decent week"
Why do you think Living on Love is not an expensive show? I'm willing to bet Ms. Fleming is pulling a fairly hefty salary, and while not huge stars, there's no way that Anna Chlumsky, Jerry O'Connell, or Douglas Sills are working for minimum.
Obviously the show is not as expensive to run as a large musical, but there is no way the producers are feeling good about not even making it above $200,000 this past week, which only looks like a gain from the previous week because they played eight performances instead of five. The show saw drops in both of the number categories that really matter, capacity percentage and gross percentage.
But then again, you don't look at the numbers (by your own admission, and no, I'm not going to go dig up that quote). You like to base business decisions on feelings instead of facts.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:00pm
How much do you actually think It Shoulda Been You costs? I don't think its that expensive. Small cast, small orchestra, small theatre. The Visit is also small, however they are really doing bad. Living on Love and The Visit will pick up after opening
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#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:02pm
If The Visit doesn't make it , it will be the second crime of the decade; the first being the brilliant The Scottsboro Boys closing prematurely. 2 great K+E shows. I know these are not the choice for tourists, but such great theater.
But this time, The Visit will be opening only a few days before Tony nominations come out. So depending on the amount of nominations it receives, it should be interesting to see how they could help give it a boost.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:03pm
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? When did I EVER say they were doing well at the box office? You aren't going to look for any quote because I never said anything like that! Apparently they have been heavily comping the show.
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AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:11pm
And I didn't say you said it was doing well. You said in a previous thread (maybe that Honeymoon thread?) that you didn't look at the gross reports to see what the actual numbers were. If you changed that habit, then good for you. But it would appear that you haven't, since you don't seem to understand that even the least expensive shows to run are going to have their producers and investors very worried when the show is at 20% gross potential and saw a drop in the attendance percentage. Even more so when you are dealing with what was conceived as a limited-run star vehicle which by its very nature has an extremely tight recoupment schedule and can't afford to see weeks like that.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:12pmI highly doubt that any of the leads in Shoulda Been You, are making minimum, Philly.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:15pm
And It Shoulda's cast numbers 18, which no one would call "small."
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:26pm
18 isn't big either. Im sure they aren't making minimum but how much do you think that show costs? I don't like 400,000 is to bad for a show like that. I have always read the grosses so i don't know what you are talking about and neither do you! You probably remember what i said wrong.
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Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:27pm
18 is not is a small number. For 2015 on Broadway, that is a medium number. Easily.
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/15
Posted: 4/13/15 at 4:34pm
The biggest problem with It Shoulda Been You isn't the number, its that all 18 are more than chorus, and many of the smaller characters are still big names that will demand moderate salaries. Tyne Daley, Harriet Harris, Sierra Boggess, Chip Zien, Montego Glover, and David Burtka all likely demand more than the typical contract for the size that their roles are within the show.
