Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
bud2
Chorus Member Joined: 5/21/11
fb1123
Understudy Joined: 6/25/08
#2Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Posted: 9/20/16 at 8:49am
With ticket prices always increasing, it would be more interesting to know how many tickets were sold rather than the one day gross.
SomethingPeculiar
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/14
#3Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Posted: 9/20/16 at 9:55am
With a guesstimated average price of $200 per ticket, they probably sold 40-50,000 tickets (give or take) over a span of about 220 performances/38 weeks that are currently listed. (Too early in the morning to do the exact math right now.)
That said...while the March through May perfs may be looking full, there should be plenty of availability for next summer and fall. (Though this press release probably helped them sell another million or more dollars worth of tix.)
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#4Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Posted: 9/20/16 at 10:22am
It does get tiring to hear about box office records/house records/ etc when it's 99% ticket price increases. You can say Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, but Gone with the Wind technically sold more tickets, just at a dime each.
SFFrontRow
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/05
#6Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Posted: 9/20/16 at 4:51pm
And if anyone saw the post I added a few days ago, the article states that Ms Midler will be in ALL performances that are currently on sale. WHEW. So, insurance for those of us who purchased matinees (especially Wednesdays).
I got my Row L seat 2 - not as close as I wanted, but no BIG HEADS in front of my 5'7" frame. YAY.'
One other aside, nothing was said of the number of "premium" seats at higher prices. They seemed to be all over the map on that (although only about 3 seats were available for each performance I looked at for a week's time. And NONE of those seats were in mezzanine or balcony - there were NONE available.
#7Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record
Posted: 9/20/16 at 4:57pm
nasty_khakis said: "It does get tiring to hear about box office records/house records/ etc when it's 99% ticket price increases. You can say Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, but Gone with the Wind technically sold more tickets, just at a dime each.
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Of of course there is an important factor but I also get tired of hearing this because the fact that people are willing to pay those prices means something too. If the only key to success on Broadway was setting high prices it would be the easiest investment opportunity in the world.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
