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Damn, COLOR PURPLE!! Nice way to go out. Did they ever announce that it recouped?
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.
They can't be making that much?! I mean, the show has to be cheap to produce: No set, no costumes, no wigs, barely any orchestra. If they didn't recoup they had some terrible producing. There is no reason Brooks should have been making more than minimum.
Sorry, not sure why I put wigs lol Most women on Broadway are wigged. But still. The fact that after a year of pretty stellar business they didn't recoup is kind of silly, no?
Usually, the week after New Year's dies. What happened this year? For example, Chicago grossed almost $300K more than last year comparable week. If any doubt. even where the grosses went down dramatically, it was mostly due to the lowering of prices from the now usurious prices that seem normal on holiday weeks. Percent of capacity numbers were mind-boggling. Any reason why...was the weather balmy? I really am amazed.
Had a friend in the city Thurs-Sunday that said she'd never seen it so packed at that time of year. And no, not balmy.
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I have to wonder for THE COLOR PURPLE exactly how much Hudson, Ervio, Brooks, Holliday, etc. all were making for the show to not recoup.
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.
I think that having the holidays on weekends this year really threw off the tourist market/usual travel days and weeks. Rather than that ONE super insanely congested week between Christmas and New Years, it spread out to the week before, the week between and the week after. I think this coming week may trail off, and the week after we'll start to see those typical January numbers. But as far as I know, many people were still "traveling for the holidays" up until this past week.
ACL2006 said: "I have to wonder for THE COLOR PURPLE exactly how much Hudson, Ervio, Brooks, Holliday, etc. all were making for the show to not recoup."
Ever since Jennifer Hudson left, they struggled. It's not surprising they didn't recoup. Especially from when Heather Headley left until the closing, the grosses weren't strong.
Regarding the Color Purple salaries -- for those to really impact recoupment, my guess is that they some (Hudson and Holliday for sure) were tied to box office percentages. That's what really can kill a show when it has lean weeks.
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People who think Color Purple should have recouped need to sharpen their basic math skills. The capitalization was reportedly $8mil. Over 63 frames, the show had a net gross of roughly $40mil. If we assume the nut was $550k-which I think is implausibly low-that equals roughly $35mil, a $3mil shortfall.
Also interesting to note that this Color Purple revival ran only half as long as the original, and in a significantly smaller house. Despite good reviews and enthusiastic (but limited) word of mouth, it was, undeniably, a flop. Perhaps a flop respected by some (personally, I think the source is terrific but the musical adaptation is unbearably amateurish), but a flop.