Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 3:34pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/22/2017 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: WICKED (5.3%), THE FRONT PAGE (4.5%), CATS (3.4%), IN TRANSIT (3.0%), WAITRESS (2.3%), JITNEY (1.0%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (0.2%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: ON YOUR FEET! (-12.5%), PARAMOUR (-12.0%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-7.9%), THE PRESENT (-7.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-6.2%), CHICAGO (-4.4%), BEAUTIFUL (-3.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.1%), THE LION KING (-0.7%), ALADDIN (-0.4%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-0.2%),
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 3:36pm
Happy to see Oh, Hello went out smashingly!
Meanwhile, On Your Feet! is back under the $700k mark again...
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 3:48pm
These are really good January numbers on the whole.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 3:50pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "Meanwhile, On Your Feet! is back under the $700k mark again..."
Isn't that healthy for the end of January? Seems like if you're a light feel-good musical, now is the time to stay in business...
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 4:32pm
Dear Evan Hansen was the only show to have a significant increase in its grosses other than Oh Hello which was in its closing week, and it had the third highest average ticket price on Broadway, a hefty $136+, behind only Hamilton and Book of Mormon. I guess it's pretty secure financially. If it's doing these numbers in January, the summer numbers should be incredible.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 5:49pm
If it's doing these numbers in January, the summer numbers should be incredible.
I don't doubt DEH would do well with award seasons probably bringing the show a lot of visibility, but don't forget that Spring brings about 10+ more shows, most of which are going to be really strong competition.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 6:17pm
Isn't DEH already playing to capacity or almost? So there's not much higher for them to go. Except the ticket cost I guess.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 6:24pm
neonlightsxo said: "Isn't DEH already playing to capacity or almost? So there's not much higher for them to go. Except the ticket cost I guess.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 6:24pm
neonlightsxo said: "Isn't DEH already playing to capacity or almost? So there's not much higher for them to go. Except the ticket cost I guess.
Yes, it's playing to full capacity but as you suggest, ticket prices will increase as will the sales of premium tickets. These things will have a significant impact on the grosses for the show.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
Updated On: 1/23/17 at 06:24 PM
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 6:30pm
I would think that Waitress should be making an announcement of recouping soon... or have I already missed it?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 6:56pm
I would've thought they had recouped before now so who knows.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 7:19pm
IN TRANSIT continues to slightly improve each week. We'll see how much long it lasts.
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.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/23/17 at 9:40pm
Waitress may well have recouped. Remember that not everyone in the world finds it necessary to trumpet how much money they make.
I am not sure how one can call a show that accretes its running deficit improving, but In Transit appears to be another one of these lunatics-running-the-asylum shows so it may last long.
broadwayguy91
Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/15
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 8:09am
perhaps Sara Barailles is taking a percentage of the box office in addition to her royalties as composer, so thats why they haven't recouped yet
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 8:22am
Re In Transit, I'd love to see a piece like the one they did on Paul Simon and Steve Martin continually throwing large sums of cash down the Bright Star well. The 1%ers "producing" In Transit must be burning at least twice as much on that bonfire. Imagine the social services that they could fund with that dough.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 8:36am
And if they don't spend it here, there certainly is NO guarantee that it will go to a worthy cause. (Although, I pretty sure that art IS a worthy cause.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 8:49am
Art may very well be a worthy cause (whether as worthy as correcting issues of poverty or lack of healthcare or good education is another question); but I wouldn't call In Transit art.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 8:57am
Has there been any announcement for an In Transit cast recording?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:22am
newintown said: "Re In Transit, I'd love to see a piece like the one they did on Paul Simon and Steve Martin continually throwing large sums of cash down the Bright Star well. The 1%ers "producing" In Transit must be burning at least twice as much on that bonfire. Imagine the social services that they could fund with that dough."
Who's "they" ??
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:29am
I assume newintown is referring to the article Michael Riedel wrote on Steve Martin and Paul Simon (who is married to Edie Brickell) infusing their own money to keep Bright Star open through the Tonys.http://nypost.com/2016/05/31/steve-martin-is-spending-his-own-money-to-save-bright-star/
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:30am
"Who's "they" ??"
Janet B. Rosen, Marvin S. Rosen, Robert F. Smith, Jeff Hecktman, Ed Rendell/Kenneth Jarin, Manny Medina, Michael S. Falk/Annie Falk, Karen Mehiel, Steven M. Goldman/Arlene L. Goldman, and Edgar Bronfman, Jr./Benjamin Bronfman.
See earlier posts in related threads re: their collected wealth.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:30am
I was asking about the Bright Star article. Thanks LarryD2.
Updated On: 1/24/17 at 09:30 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:46am
newintown said: "Art may very well be a worthy cause (whether as worthy as correcting issues of poverty or lack of healthcare or good education is another question); but I wouldn't call In Transit art.
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But again....you can't tell people how to spend their money. One thing doesn't connect to the other. One could say that you shouldn't spend money on tickets, but rather donate that money to the causes you cite above. How is this any different.
Art is subjective. I have no opinion on this particular show, as I haven't seen it nor do I have plans to do so.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17
Posted: 1/24/17 at 9:56am
"But again....you can't tell people how to spend their money."
Who's telling anybody anything? You appear to mistake a moral opinion for some sort of demand for legislation. There's nothing unusual about believing that it's more admirable for the wealthy to support social programs than to spend millions on a questionable commercial venture that's failing because no one much wants it.
If you believe the latter does the world as much good as the former, it's just my opinion that your values may be skewed (in a very popular American way). But they're your values, and you're free to keep them.
