Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/3/2015 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.
The gross percentage for HEDWIG is not that dissimilar from many of the weeks of JCM's run. The drop from week to week in raw dollars looks worse because there was one less performance. People may be holding out to give him time to get into the role... or it'll just be a disaster anyway.
ETA- The $$ may change soon as there was no discount code available for this past week and now there is a code out and the show is on TDF.
Hedwig also only did 6 performances instead of 7. Their capacity for the week was nearly 70%. We'll see how well Hedwig does once schools let out.
Dr. Zhivago seems to be hanging on. Somehow. And Gentlemen's Guide will probably make it until the end of the year. I think it's losing steam, quickly.
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.
Fun Home, while not a smash, is definitely on a strong up swing. I was at the show a few days ago and it was completely sold out. And the woman in from of me in the (very long) box office line was told the next day was within a few seats of selling out, so she was urged to decide on a date quickly. I expect its grosses to go up even more next week. Very happy its finding success.
Poor Chita though. If it maintains those numbers, even making it til the Tonys is a stretch. Do we think Kirdahy will throw money at it til then?
Is that little bump for Chicago due to Brandy coming in? I'll be interested to see how the numbers change week to week. I want to go a little later when she's more comfortable in the role but obviously I don't want to wait so long I can't get a ticket. I mean, a reasonably priced ticket. It's still the Chicago revival after all.
What happened to Airline Highway? I know it's MTC but still you'd think they'd be able to get more people in there.
The Heidi Chronicles didn't really go out with a bang.
Doctor Zhivago and The Visit are still hanging on, God bless them.
I wonder if Zhivago is planning on posting a closing notice for Sunday. Pure speculation of course but Sunday's performance was just on TDF a few hours ago without limited seating and now it has disappeared completely...
Why would Zhivago close right now? Yea, it got terrible reviews and no noms, but it seems to making a reasonable amount of money, in the same ballpark as Gigi and On The Town, and significantly more than The Visit, whose attendance dropped even further, even though it got a lot of Tony noms. Their grosses went up a bit, but it's still not a lot at all...
_IrisTInkerbell, let me give you a quick lesson in Broadway economics. I *highly* doubt that $515,163 is enough to cover their weekly running costs. They have a huge cast and complicated show. For a show to run, rather than close, they need to not only make their weekly running cost to break even, they need to make more to be making money. Other shows I bet aren't breaking even: On the Town, It Shoulda Been You, The Visit, Les Miz, and Gigi is probably on the brink. Any of these shows could be closing.
So in reference to "but it seems to making a reasonable amount of money" no, no it's not.
I didn't say it was definitely closing, only found it a bit weird that it was pulled from TDF on a Sunday when it was up for the date before the grosses came out.
The Zhivago producers seemed to indicate that they were willing to stay open til the Spring Road Conference in two weeks. Which makes sense. They are doubtless losing money, but the only way the show has any future is if road presenters see the show and feel they might have an audience for it in a regional market.
I didn't think it was making *enough* money but it continues to be singled to be the next one to close (and I wasn't refering to you, n2nbaby). And I simply don't follow why it's more likely to close than Gigi or any of the other shows you mentioned.
And I wasn't saying you all are wrong are either, I was just confused by the certainty with which people (mostly in other topics) declare this show in particular will close in a heartbeat, while some others shows are barely discussed. It appeared to me like people want it to fail.
I haven't had time to see it yet and I'm busy this week and would hate to have to squeeze it in, so selfishly I'm hoping for at least 2 more weeks. I've also heard some pretty positive things about it, so...
Unless the schedule changes, Dr. Zhivago isn't even hosting a lunch, reception, or creative conversation at the conference next week, which will make it a bit more difficult to lure road presenters.
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
I don't know if Doctor Zhivago will be next, or any other show, which is why I don't make predictions about how long a show will last or which will be next on the chopping block, so to speak. I just know that the numbers don't look good... although Doctor Zhivago has some pretty optimistic producers, I think.
"A surprisingly inauspicious start to Criss' run in Hedwig"
Not really surprising. The Glee fanbase was next to nothing by the final season. Criss is not the star he was during his h2$ days. If the producers brought him in to make more cash, they will sorely be left hanging.
Countdown til Jordan comes on raging about how much loves me! 3..2..1...