Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:06pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/17/2015 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: LES MISÉRABLES (12.0%), GIGI (10.1%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (9.8%), MATILDA (8.5%), WOLF HALL PARTS ONE & TWO (8.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (7.7%), HAND TO GOD (7.5%), KINKY BOOTS (7.2%), WICKED (6.2%), ON THE TOWN (6.1%), JERSEY BOYS (6.1%), BEAUTIFUL (5.8%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (5.6%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (4.5%), CHICAGO (4.0%), MAMMA MIA! (3.1%), THE LION KING (2.8%), IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (2.6%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1.7%), FINDING NEVERLAND (1.6%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1.3%), FUN HOME (1.2%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (0.9%), THE AUDIENCE (0.5%), THE VISIT (0.3%), FISH IN THE DARK (0.2%), ALADDIN (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: AN ACT OF GOD (-11.4%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-4.7%), AIRLINE HIGHWAY (-0.3%), SKYLIGHT (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:12pm
Nice to be first.
Wonder why 20th isn't doing better?
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:16pm
Yay
the king and i broke $1 million gross/week for the first time....
on the 20th did 70% of gross capacity, still a good week for a revival
that is not a household name show...
loliveve
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/12
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:17pm
^ It played a full house (over 100% capacity) but a lot of those tickets were quite probably subscriber-based, and there may be comps for Tony voters right now, so that could account for the reduced grosses.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:22pmWasn't Chenoweth out for a few performance last week?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
loliveve
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/12
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:26pm
Kad- I thought that was the week before last? (But I've been tired and days are running together... so you may very well be correct)
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:30pm
So glad to see The King & I pass a million. Such a terrific production.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:01pm
I'm glad to see Fun Home steadily building its audience. I'm hoping for a healthy run à la Next to Normal.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:03pm
The fact that Fun Home is selling out weekly is making me so, so happy.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:13pm
"Wasn't Chenoweth out for a few performance last week?"
No, that was at least 2 or 3 weeks ago now, that she was out for 4/8, and capacity dropped to 80-something % that week.
Their grosses have gone up by almost 100% from early on in the run because of the average ticket price going up. It's at $100 now, when subscribers pay I think about $80 on average, so that's telling you something... Top ticket price is at $162 these days, and premiums at $229 I think. So the only reasonable way for them to make more money would be to jack up premiums. But they will never get anywhere near 100% potential gross because their subscribers pay substantially less than the normal ticket price.
The slight drop in gross but up in attendance I would also attribute to Tony comps (it's only a 800 seat theatre after all) and/or randomly more subscribers vs general audience in the house last week.
ScottK
Understudy Joined: 12/13/12
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:28pm
Also--last week was the league conference, in addition to Tony voters, which would inflate attendance for the new shows, and lower grosses--for all of those comped tix
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:43pm
I am kinda surprised Jim Parsons isn't more of an event; it's doing fine and I guess it needs exposure to sell but I would have thought this would be one of those box office draw shows. Other things that haven't been mentioned. Hand to God is moving into an even more comfortable position while Visit continues not to move at all. And while no one is watching, Gigi is bleeding-probably losing more than the Visit on a higher playing field.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/19/15 at 12:13am
Per a concierge friend...most of the tourists are asking for tickets to see An American in Paris
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
Updated On: 5/19/15 at 12:13 AM
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/25/15 at 5:04pm
I am sorry for asking a possibly stupid question but will last weeks grosses be released tomorrow due to it being a holiday weekend?
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Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15
Posted: 5/25/15 at 5:10pm
Thanks for answering.
I guess that the numbers across the board should get a boost from last week then.
