Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/19/17

[Rob]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:08pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/19/2017 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: PARAMOUR (24.8%), KINKY BOOTS (23.8%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (21.7%), CATS (18.4%), ON YOUR FEET! (18.0%), CHICAGO (17.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (15.3%), WICKED (13.3%), BEAUTIFUL (12.7%), IN TRANSIT (7.9%), WAITRESS (7.6%), THE PRESENT (7.0%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (6.5%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (4.8%), SUNSET BOULEVARD (3.9%), JITNEY (2.3%), ALADDIN (1.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (-2.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:12pm

That's actually a better gross than I expected for COME FROM AWAY with just 3 performances. Good to see! Worried already about SIGNIFICANT OTHER. I hope it can find an audience.

Updated On: 2/21/17 at 03:12 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:13pm

Not going to lie, I totally though Cate Blanchett would've had the Barrymore sold out with the snap of her fingers...

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:13pm

Also, SUNSET's numbers are crazy! 

[pupscotch]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:16pm

A Bronx Tale continues to surprise and impress me! I still wonder why In Transit is continuing to run, one would hope their grosses would have picked up more than they did for the long weekend.

[little_sally]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:20pm

I'm very impressed by A Bronx Tale. And I guess everyone's fretting over Sunset selling was unwarranted.

Who would've thought Come From Away would sell this well? Good for them!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:24pm

I'm not convinced CFA will maintain this momentum, Allegiance had a few good weeks at the beginning too. But yes, good for them.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:27pm

quizking101 said: "Not going to lie, I totally though Cate Blanchett would've had the Barrymore sold out with the snap of her fingers...

 

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The show is still on track to recoup, but the reviews definitely hurt it. The advance was strong, but the word of mouth and reviews quashed that a bit. But even with Blanchett, a three-hour play about sad Russians--based on an obscure, rarely produced work of Chekhov--was always going to be a hard sell. Had Blanchett come to Broadway in a revival of STREETCAR or some similar classic play, it'd be untouchable.

Nice to see how well THE PRICE is doing out of the gate--almost completely sold out for its first few performances.

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:27pm

Sunset's numbers blow my mind week after week…

Happy this was an up week virtually across the board!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:28pm

A holiday weekend, to be fair.

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:32pm

Just interesting to see how both Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton earned less money ($48,434 and $36,887) this week compared to last week, especially when it was a holiday weekend. My guess is that they sold less premium seats (and thus more standard-priced seats)  this week compared to the week before?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:38pm

neonlightsxo said: "A holiday weekend, to be fair."

 

Also add in Valentine's Day last week. I'm sure that it added a nice little boost to a performance  (Tuesday night in February) that's typically a bit on the bleaker side.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:39pm

Out of the gate numbers (including especially partial week ones) are not a valid basis for optimism (or pessimism). 

Some of these shows everyone is so excited about (e.g., Sunset) are likely gravely disappointing to the producers and investors: it seems unlikely the show can recoup in the time it has at those numbers. 

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:43pm

Wick3 said: "Just interesting to see how both Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton earned less money ($48,434 and $36,887) this week compared to last week, especially when it was a holiday weekend. My guess is that they sold less premium seats (and thus more standard-priced seats)  this week compared to the week before?"

I don't think Hamilton premium vs regular differs much week to week, given that the show is sold out months in advance, no?

[Clyde15]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:52pm

neonlightsxo said: "I'm not convinced CFA will maintain this momentum, Allegiance had a few good weeks at the beginning too. But yes, good for them.

 

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While you are right that may happen, the word of mouth for CFA is much stronger than it was for Allegiance. I think that will really help the show out.  

[stlrod]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 3:59pm

I've certainly been doing my part to help CFA.  Told people back at the hotel bar how good it was, told the pilot of my airplane back home about it and even gave it a review on Its Facebook page which I've never done for any show.  Haven't been this excited about a show since Pippin at A.R.T. I really hope it sees the continued success it deserves.

Updated On: 2/21/17 at 03:59 PM

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 4:05pm

haterobics said: "Wick3 said: "Just interesting to see how both Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton earned less money ($48,434 and $36,887) this week compared to last week, especially when it was a holiday weekend. My guess is that they sold less premium seats (and thus more standard-priced seats)  this week compared to the week before?"

I don't think Hamilton premium vs regular differs much week to week, given that the show is sold out months in advance, no?"

Agreed but hence why I wonder why its profit this week was $36k less compared to the week before. I'm not losing sleep over it but just curious. Given how Hamilton is sold out for the next several months, I'd imagine its gross would relatively be the same week to week (plus or minus less than $10k)

 

[asmith0307]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 4:11pm

Wick3 said: "haterobics said: "Wick3 said: "Just interesting to see how both Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton earned less money ($48,434 and $36,887) this week compared to last week, especially when it was a holiday weekend. My guess is that they sold less premium seats (and thus more standard-priced seats)  this week compared to the week before?"

I don't think Hamilton premium vs regular differs much week to week, given that the show is sold out months in advance, no?"

Agreed but hence why I wonder why its profit this week was $36k less compared to the week before. I'm not losing sleep over it but just curious. Given how Hamilton is sold out for the next several months, I'd imagine its gross would relatively be the same week to week (plus or minus less than $10k)"

No idea about Hamilton, but I suspect for DEH we'll see quite a bit of fluctuation, even when sold out, due to people purchasing at the Belasco prices instead of the Music Box prices, or any other price changes. People are more likely to buy ahead of time for a holiday weekend than they are for a random weekend in Feb. 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 4:55pm

"due to people purchasing at the Belasco prices instead of the Music Box prices"

They changed the prices when they moved theaters? Why?

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 5:21pm

Wick3 said: "Agreed but hence why I wonder why its profit this week was $36k less compared to the week before. I'm not losing sleep over it but just curious. Given how Hamilton is sold out for the next several months, I'd imagine its gross would relatively be the same week to week (plus or minus less than $10k)"

But the difference between not knowing an answer and speculating to make one up is how religion began...

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 5:25pm

Regarding Sunset - have to remember there on a 7 performance per week schedule, which makes those numbers even more impressive

[LesWickedly]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 5:25pm

neonlightsxo said: ""due to people purchasing at the Belasco prices instead of the Music Box prices"

They changed the prices when they moved theaters? Why?

 

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Belasco has an orchestra, mezz and balcony. Rear Balcony prices were cheaper than Rear Mezz, understandably. 

[Pootie2]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 5:33pm

Clyde15 said: "neonlightsxo said: "I'm not convinced CFA will maintain this momentum, Allegiance had a few good weeks at the beginning too. But yes, good for them.

 

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While you are right that may happen, the word of mouth for CFA is much stronger than it was for Allegiance. I think that will really help the show out.  

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They're also completely different types of shows about distinctly different historical events. Come From Away's grosses don't surprise me, and I do think it'll maintain momentum...

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 7:17pm

There are myriad reasons why the gross in any given frame might be off from the preceding one, and we are talking about de minimis differences. $48k over 8 performances is $6000 a show. A few extra comps here, a few more premium there, how many house seat entitlements were executed? were any seats out of service? was there a special situation? There is no way that anyone looking in from the outside can rationalize this as if it were some piece of finely tuned machinery. The bottom line is: what difference could a 1% variation make to anyone here or there?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/21/17 at 7:30pm

COME FROM AWAY's grosses will be interesting this week. A holiday week, plus three shows (out of 7) offered the $38 rush seats. The show, for the most part, looks nearly sold out this week.