Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:03pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/18/2015 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: THE GIN GAME (8.7%), AMAZING GRACE (5.9%), FINDING NEVERLAND (1.9%), THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (1.6%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (1.0%), MATILDA (0.4%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE KING AND I (-7.4%), FUN HOME (-5.8%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-5.2%), SYLVIA (-4.8%), FOOL FOR LOVE (-4.8%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-3.6%), DAMES AT SEA (-3.4%), ALLEGIANCE (-3.2%), HAND TO GOD (-2.8%), WICKED (-2.4%), CHICAGO (-1.9%), LES MISÉRABLES (-1.6%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-1.5%), SPRING AWAKENING (-1.3%), BEAUTIFUL (-0.2%), OLD TIMES (-0.2%), ALADDIN (-0.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.2%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.1%), JERSEY BOYS (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:09pm
Hamilton had zero change. Nice!
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:09pm
Interesting with Spring Awakening, I was there Saturday night and the theater seemed pretty full! The show is truly extraordinary so sad to see the grosses like that.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:13pm
Interesting numbers for On Your Feet. Zero percentage difference in attendance, but a decline of over $66,000. How?
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:17pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "Interesting numbers for On Your Feet. Zero percentage difference in attendance, but a decline of over $66,000. How?"
Average ticket price went down by $6.57.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:20pm
"Hamilton had zero change. Nice!"
What do you mean? It's always sold out so of course the attendance doesn't change, but they did make $199,000 less than the week prior.
"Interesting with Spring Awakening, I was there Saturday night and the theater seemed pretty full! The show is truly extraordinary so sad to see the grosses like that."
That doesn't mean people were paying full price for their tickets.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:27pm
I'm really surprised Kiera Knightly isn't more of a draw. I was at the show yesterday at the rear mezz was practically empty.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:41pm
It's in previews. It's kind of out of the way as far as foot traffic. The poster design is ugly as hell. And there's been no advertising. I'm sure after it opens it will pick up more. but it is quite a large theater.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:47pm
RippedMan said: "It's in previews. It's kind of out of the way as far as foot traffic. The poster design is ugly as hell. And there's been no advertising. I'm sure after it opens it will pick up more. but it is quite a large theater."
It's interesting, because An Act of God most recently played at this theater—and we know that sold immensely well. I personally think Keira Knightley is a bigger name than Jim Parsons, so, what is it? The muddy, murky marketing?
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:51pm
My friends and I were discussing this yesterday and we agreed the marketing for Therese Raquin is pretty horrible. And it's not a super familiar title either. But still, I figured Knightley would be a bigger draw, previews or no previews.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:52pmBroadwayConcierge, I hope you aren't actually a concierge. Act of God was a commercial production, a rental of Studio 54. Therese Raquin is a Roundabout production. Despite the fact that they are in the same house, no similarities.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:24pm
Jim Parsons is the star of a TV show that was watched by an average of 19 MILLION people last year. He is absolutely a bigger draw than Keira Knightley, at least on Broadway.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:31pm
I don't necessarily think you're wrong about Parsons, theatreguy, but Keira Knightley was nominated for an Oscar this year. She's not exactly chopped liver in the entertainment world.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 6:49pm
Re the Knightley/Parsons comparison-
I was talking to a producer a couple of weeks ago who referred to the notion (unrelated to these two actors) of beloved vs. well-known. He noted that a great many well known actors in the last few years have come to Broadway without generating the heat that their producers expected. His feeling is that these types don't get traction. I don't think Knightley, notwithstanding her success, is beloved by many, whereas I think Parsons is. Just food for thought.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 8:37pm
I think it's the constant question as to whether "fame" in other entertainment fields translates to Broadway box office, it's the combination of factors since there are very few sure fire draws on stage that you could put in anything and still sell out.
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
Updated On: 10/19/15 at 08:37 PM
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:02pm
I'm trying to think of which movies you would have seen with Keira Knightley and come away loving her. Her biggest movies have been the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I suppose you could like her from The Imitation Game or Love Actually but she's a minor character in those movies. And most of her other movies... Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham, Begin Again, Anna Karenina, The Duchess, Never Let Me Go, Laggies, A Dangerous Method... don't really play to a big audience if you're going by box office gross.
My issue with her career before Begin Again and Laggies was that she was doing a string of book adaptations that had defined characters but she played them all like Keira Knightley. Therese Raquin seems to be geared towards the Anna Karenina, Atonement, The Duchess crowd... not the one who sees her more popular movies.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/20/15 at 2:34am
Hm. It is interesting. I think they both are playing to their strengths. But, just to go to the marketing: Everything I saw was "Jim Parsons IN An Act of God." You'd be hard pressed to find any marketing materials pimping out Knightly. It seems so low-key. I mean I got a $25 seat. Yet for some reason, it's almost impossible to see Bruce Willis in Misery? A man who hasn't had a hit in how long? I think it's a combo of a play name that is not familiar - my roommate who is British said they grew up teaching it/reading it, but I've never heard of it - and the lack of fan fare with the production. I mean, Clive Owen, who is kind of the same ilk, is not exactly selling out on Bway.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/20/15 at 8:44am
Bruce Willis, like him or not, is a Hollywood Icon. Similar to Gibson and Travolta, who have also had zero hits (for differing reasons) over the last decade but are still considered icons. Their recent success -- or lack thereof -- is irrelevant. Mainstream America always looks at their entire body of work in a nostalgic prism.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:00am
You are also comparing ticket prices of a commercial production to a non-profit production. Of course tickets to a Roundabout show are going to generally be cheaper and less difficult to obtain. That's the nature of the beast.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:35am
I also think "Jim Parsons plays God" is a much easier concept to sell than "Keira Knightley in an old serious play that you can't pronounce." At least for the average theatergoer.
Eurotrash
Featured Actor Joined: 8/28/13
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/22/15 at 11:48am
The same numbers went to see Amazing Grace and Fun Home.
Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/22/15 at 2:01pm
Eurotrash said: "The same numbers went to see Amazing Grace and Fun Home."
In vastly different-sized theaters...
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/18/15
Posted: 10/22/15 at 3:36pm
Eurotrash said: "The same numbers went to see Amazing Grace and Fun Home."
If you are not, you should force yourself to become familiar with the irrelevance of the number of bodies that are in seats at a given show. What matters is that Amazing Grace is losing well into 6 figures each and every week, as a prelude to losing its entire capitalization. Fun Home is making money. Gotta get your eyes on the ball.
