Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 5:31pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/25/2016 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 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (20.5%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (14.7%), CATS (6.2%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (4.5%), THE ENCOUNTER (2.6%), MATILDA (1.6%), THE LION KING (1.3%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (1.0%), ALADDIN (0.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.2%), THE HUMANS (0.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: ON YOUR FEET! (-16.4%), HOLIDAY INN (-15.7%), BEAUTIFUL (-14.4%), LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (-13.3%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-12.1%), THE FRONT PAGE (-11.5%), JERSEY BOYS (-10.7%), CHICAGO (-8.1%), FALSETTOS (-7.6%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (-6.1%), IN TRANSIT (-5.0%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-4.4%), PARAMOUR (-4.0%), THE PRESENT (-3.1%), WAITRESS (-2.5%), WICKED (-1.7%), THE ILLUSIONISTS - TURN OF THE CENTURY (-0.4%), THE COLOR PURPLE (-0.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.2%),
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 5:33pm
Ouch, On Your Feet!, even with a seven-performance week.
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 5:36pm
This should be the best week of the year!!! Why are half of the shows down?
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 5:52pm
I'm sorry but how on earth is IN TRANSIT still running?
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 5:55pm
Sunny, perhaps the holiday landed on the weekend this year. Still very shocking nonetheless. It seemed like summer was terrible now the holiday is too. BUT that Hamilton number is staggering. My jaw is aching just from looking at it. The difference from what they made from last week to this week was over a million dollars alone!!
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#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:03pm
Anyone have an estimate as to In Transit's weekly nut? I can't imagine the running cost is that high. I haven't seen the show, but I've seen the clips. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the production seems fairly simple and low-cost, plus it's a small-ish cast with no big stars, and there isn't an orchestra. It seems possible that either they're just barely making it, or keeping their losses low enough that they can keep chugging until Tony noms.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:08pm
Sunny11 said: "This should be the best week of the year!!! Why are half of the shows down?
Because most shows only did 7 performances. So not that shocking.
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CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:12pm
This is just Christmas-on-Sunday, no? It's not actually a holiday week. That's this week. The week before is often very slow.
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MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:17pm
I notice that A Bronx Tale was down this week, when tourists are in town and most other shows are up. I wonder if the audience for it, seemingly a "Jersey Boys" crowd of B&T locals, might work as a sort of counterbalance to the more tourist-oriented shows.
And Hamilton - OMG! An average ticket price of $998???
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:21pm
MarkBearSF said: "An average ticket price of $998???"
That's the TOP ticket price, not the average. A distinction worth noting, but even still, it is crazy high. The $998 premium tix are only for special holiday weeks though, right?
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:22pm
MarkBearSF said: "
And Hamilton - OMG! An average ticket price of $998??"
Top ticket price is $998. Average price is $307.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:27pm
MarkBearSF said: "I notice that A Bronx Tale was down this week, when tourists are in town and most other shows are up."
"Most" shows were NOT up. Only 10 out of more than 30 shows were up.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:34pm
perfectliar said: "MarkBearSF said: "I notice that A Bronx Tale was down this week, when tourists are in town and most other shows are up."
"Most" shows were NOT up. Only 10 out of more than 30 shows were up.
Let me say this again more slowly for those that weren't paying attention. Most shows did SEVEN performances (7) this past week compared to EIGHT (
the prior week, which explains why they appeared to be "down" when they might not have been down at all. Capiche?
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CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:36pm
JBroadway said: "MarkBearSF said: "An average ticket price of $998???"
That's the TOP ticket price, not the average. A distinction worth noting, but even still, it is crazy high. The $998 premium tix are only for special holiday weeks though, right? "
Thanks for the correction. I had initially focused on the $3M+ gross and then scanned to the right.
RIght now StubHub offerings for Hamilton in SF are filled with dreamers. (Including a $15K single in row F on the day we're seeing in it April.) However, I suspect that they will ultimately go for at least Broadway prices if not more, once performances start in March. (...and I'm aware it's totally tangental to the Bway grosses, since it's both not Broadway and a secondary sale)
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:44pm
Most shows only did 7 shows this week. This current week(Dec. 26 - Jan. 1) has most shows doing 9 shows. This current week is the big money week. If a show can't make money now, it has no hope in the winter.
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Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 6:45pm
RaisedOnMusicals said: "perfectliar said: "MarkBearSF said: "I notice that A Bronx Tale was down this week, when tourists are in town and most other shows are up."
"Most" shows were NOT up. Only 10 out of more than 30 shows were up.
Let me say this again more slowly for those that weren't paying attention. Most shows did SEVEN performances (7) this past week compared to EIGHT ( the prior week, which explains why they appeared to be "down" when they might not have been down at all. Capiche?
"
But it's the capacity % sold that's measured in the rankings not the total number of tickets.
Compared to this same point last year more shows where down from the prior week.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm?days=2015-12-27
Christmas day falling on a Sunday is a good explanation though.
bowtie7
Stand-by Joined: 7/27/11
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 7:10pm
Not only did most shows only do 7 performances, but with Christmas Eve on Saturday most shows had no Saturday night performance and many also didn't have a matinee either or a Sunday matinee.
http://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-christmas-week-2016-performance-schedule
next week will also be interesting with New Years Eve on Saturday night. Most shows are doing very unusual schedules. Wonder if these will impact the less than sellout shows.
http://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-new-years-week-2016-performance-schedule
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 7:53pm
Is it me, or is the $$ for Hamilton beyond understanding. I know it's a great show, and gosh I know I loved it. But 3M+ for a show with a totally replacement cast?
Some day, Miranda is going to come back for a few weeks, and bring Odom, Jr. with him, and they will sell tickets for $2500 each.
As the man says -- Just you wait.......
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 7:59pm
Mike66 said: "Is it me, or is the $$ for Hamilton beyond understanding. I know it's a great show, and gosh I know I loved it. But 3M+ for a show with a totally replacement cast?"
The show is the star. And people who had the option of no tickets or $2K for a while jumped at seeing the show for "half price."
Wait until next year, when the $849 premium seats for most of the orchestra kick in...
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 8:47pm
haterobics said: "
Wait until next year, when the $849 premium seats for most of the orchestra kick in...
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Will this happen, though? I believe that Hamilton is at its peak and with the show opening up and touring in so many other places, I see the Broadway show made up entirely of replacements remaining constant, but definitely not inclining from here.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 9:24pm
GreasedLightning said: "Will this happen, though? I believe that Hamilton is at its peak and with the show opening up and touring in so many other places, I see the Broadway show made up entirely of replacements remaining constant, but definitely not inclining from here. "
My understanding is that the current grosses are still with the $450ish top premium ticket, with the only recent spikes being for $900ish seats they held back for Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks, but that for a good chunk of 2017, the premium orchestra rose to $849 for many seats, and the block where that kicked in hasn't even started showing up in the grosses yet... I have tickets for August, and I think up to row Q or R had $849 premium seats, so I think there is still a spike ahead. Whether that spike will be short-lived would still put the drop into next fall...
Just checked the NYTimes article about the price increase from last June, and it does start in the January/February timeframe: "The show is sold out through next January, but the producers have already begun selling tickets for the following four months to some American Express cardholders. They intend to begin selling tickets for that same period to the public after the Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on Sunday evening; “Hamilton” is favored to win multiple awards, including best new musical."
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 10:04pm
GreasedLightning said: "Will this happen, though? I believe that Hamilton is at its peak and with the show opening up and touring in so many other places, I see the Broadway show made up entirely of replacements remaining constant, but definitely not inclining from here. "
to put it in perspective a little, less than a million people have seen Hamilton to date (and that includes those of us that have seen it multiple times as multiple people and every production.) The demand will not abate this coming year. Maybe 2020.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 10:14pm
JBroadway, I believe the entire cast of In Transit are on principal contracts so...that's not a small sum here:
http://www.intransitbroadway.com/bios/
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/16
Posted: 12/27/16 at 11:41pm
RaisedOnMusicals said: "perfectliar said: "MarkBearSF said: "I notice that A Bronx Tale was down this week, when tourists are in town and most other shows are up."
"Most" shows were NOT up. Only 10 out of more than 30 shows were up.
Let me say this again more slowly for those that weren't paying attention. Most shows did SEVEN performances (7) this past week compared to EIGHT ( the prior week, which explains why they appeared to be "down" when they might not have been down at all. Capiche?"
Thank you, but I'm not a moron. I can read. I know not all shows did a full week. My comment just stated that most shows were down, when another poster stated that they were up... not sure why you felt the need to condescend.
