Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 9:58am
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/15/2017 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 HUMANS (9.1%), IN TRANSIT (4.1%), JITNEY (3.7%), BEAUTIFUL (2.8%), HOLIDAY INN (2.8%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (1.7%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (0.4%), JERSEY BOYS (0.2%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-22.4%), CATS (-13.9%), CHICAGO (-9.0%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-8.7%), PARAMOUR (-7.5%), WAITRESS (-5.8%), WICKED (-4.6%), THE PRESENT (-3.8%), KINKY BOOTS (-2.3%), ON YOUR FEET! (-2.1%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (-1.4%), THE FRONT PAGE (-1.3%), THE LION KING (-1.1%), ALADDIN (-0.6%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 10:07am
How profitable are shows like Chicago and Phantom now? They recoup long ago, I'm just curious if they will ever fathom closing. Would it take In Transit attendance numbers?
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 10:20am
The overall lack of shows over the next few weeks might help struggling shows like IN TRANSIT, JITNEY & ON YOUR FEET. We've gone from having 33 shows to now 22(OH, HELLO closes Sunday). No new shows arrive until February with SUNSET(Feb. 2), SUNDAY...PARK(Feb. 11) & THE GLASS MENAGERIE(Feb. 7) the next shows starting previews.
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.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 10:21am
TheSassySam- the weekly gross would have to be below their running cost.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 10:32am
Glad to see The Humans go out on a high note!
Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 12:14pm
This New York Times article from 2012 says that Phantom's weekly nut was around $600,000. I can't imagine it has gone up too much since then. What worried me about Phantom closing was the Harry Potter show. I thought if those producers said they wanted the Majestic, that they would get it. Thankfully that's not the case. As for Chicago, as long as the Weisslers are still actively involved in producing it, it won't close.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 12:15pm
I never saw anyone from the Harry Potter team say they wanted the Majestic. Whatever the next tenant is after Phantom, if there ever is one, that theater would have to be gutted anyway.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 12:49pm
Glad to see Oh Hello recoup before it closes.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 1:07pm
Happy to see Oh, Hello recoup. Surprised it didn't happen earlier.
So great to see The Humans go out with such a high number!
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 4:26pm
"As for Chicago, as long as the Weisslers are still actively involved in producing it, it won't close. "
If the show consistently loses money for a period of time, they will absolutely not keep it open notwithstanding how active they are. To this point they have cobbled out enough revenue to make it viable, but that could change, almost on a dime.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 5:00pm
Do these grosses include performances from last night?
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BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/18/17 at 5:02pm
They're for the week ending January 15, so, no.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/19/17 at 12:42am
I'm so curious about financials. I'm surprised it took "Oh Hello" that long to recoup? It's been pulling in great numbers its whole run. It's only 2 actors - who are presumably working for fairly cheap - no big costume pieces, no need for a big crew, etc. No understudies. Why would it cost so much?
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/19/17 at 1:16am
RippedMan said: "I'm so curious about financials. I'm surprised it took "Oh Hello" that long to recoup? It's been pulling in great numbers its whole run. It's only 2 actors - who are presumably working for fairly cheap - no big costume pieces, no need for a big crew, etc. No understudies. Why would it cost so much?
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I'm assuming Mulaney and Kroll didn't come cheap.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/19/17 at 1:31am
It is THEIR show. I'd think they'd come cheap. They also wrote it, so they are getting paid that way as well. But I can't imagine they're breaking the bank. Neither one of them are "bankable" stars in the vein of Blanchett.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/19/17 at 8:42am
I also doubt that Kroll and Mullaney are working for cheap; neither is what anyone would call wealthy, with limited television success up to now.
And although they wrote the show, it technically belongs to Patrick Catullo, Marcia Goldberg, Barbara Whitman, Marc Platt, Pierce Cravens, James G. Kernochan, Jonathan Reinis, Benjamin Simpson & Joseph Longthorne/Shira Friedman, Triptyk Studios, Bellanca Smigel Rutter, Nathan Vernon, Mike LaVoie and Comedy Central, the producers.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17
Posted: 1/19/17 at 8:44am
RippedMan said: "Why would it cost so much? "
Too much tuna.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#19250k
Posted: 1/19/17 at 9:08am
RippedMan said: "It is THEIR show. I'd think they'd come cheap. They also wrote it, so they are getting paid that way as well. But I can't imagine they're breaking the bank. Neither one of them are "bankable" stars in the vein of Blanchett.
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Doesn't matter if it's THEIR show. The show still has a team of producers, and in the world of comedy... yeah, they're pretty big names. Obviously they're no Blanchett, but I'm going to safely assume they were making a decent salary per week.
Many shows do not recoup. Impressive that this show did. No matter how long it took.
#20250k
Posted: 1/19/17 at 9:26am
GreenGables said: "They're getting star salaries. And even if their weekly nut is only ~/300k on a sliding scale, it still takes a little bit of time to recoup the $2.9m if youre only grossing 500k/600k a week"
Some followups to this:
1. Based on those numbers the net gross minus the nut is roughly $3.3mil.
2. An announcement of recoupment is not something that is automatic or required, so under the best of circumstances (as with all financial announcements) there is some lead time. It is not (nor could it be) announced in real time.
3. Based on these numbers, it most likely would not have recouped before the last week.
4. There will likely be some additional funds flowing to the producers and investors post hoc when deposits, bonds and excess reserves are returned.
