Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/23/2017 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.
Groundhog Day's gross total has been rising, and I'm so glad. I hope the good reviews help them gross even more. War Paint also took a big jump this week, good to have another show in the millionares club! But oof, none of the plays this season has really caught on, even with some of them having stars.
AMAZING numbers for WAR PAINT! Especially considering Patti was out...
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Those are great numbers for War Paint! Who knows if it can sustain that, but it's certainly off to a strong start.
Shame about A Doll's House, Part Two. Hopefully positive reviews will help as well as the word of mouth. The word has been almost uniformly good among everyone I know who's seen it.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
SIX DEGREES's poor numbers is the fault of marketing. If I didn't go on this message board I wouldn't have a clue that it was running.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
BroadwayConcierge said: "Am I wrong to believe that Amélie will be the next 2016-2017 season musical to close shop?"
Right now the numbers for BANDSTAND are slightly worse. Plus they have a larger cast. We'll see once the reviews come out.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
For real though, screw "name recognition." AMELIE and BANDSTAND aren't perfect, but they're pretty good shows- yet they may undeservedly close before Charlie...Factory simply because the latter has a huge advance thanks to name recognition.
Audiences are in for a rude awakening from what I can see...
I think a large reason for War Paint's good numbers despite Patti being out was the policy they had for her attendance. Audience members were offered a refund/rescheduled tickets OR to stay and see the show and come back to see it again at a future performance with Patti, as per someone's image posted on these boards last week. I assume many people opted to see the show and come back which is why they didn't suffer a huge loss.
BroadwayConcierge said: "Am I wrong to believe that Amélie will be the next 2016-2017 season musical to close shop?"
I think it's too early to say. Certainly plenty of shows have limped on with worse numbers. Unless I'm reading the grosses incorrectly, it seems like Bandstand has an edge on the number of people seeing the show, but those people are paying less for their tickets than the ones going to see Amelie. It depends what the weekly nut is and if they've got some great advertising push in them.
It's not a new thought but I really didn't anticipate the success of A Bronx Tale and Come From Away. Good for them.
I know, subscriber house and all that, but aside from Oslo the plays are getting slaughtered. Well, I guess Present Laughter is doing solid business. Maybe it's the tone. The plays that come off as serious (again, minus Oslo) are faring worse than the ones that appear comedic (Present Laughter, The Play That Goes Wrong).
"Right now the numbers for BANDSTAND are slightly worse. Plus they have a larger cast. We'll see once the reviews come out."
Bandstand hasn't yet played an 8 show week. Plus, I imagine that they had a lot of press comps in last week. Between the two, if I were an investor, I would hope my money was in Bandstand. It is on an upward trajectory pretty consistently.
ntrackbar said: ""Right now the numbers for BANDSTAND are slightly worse. Plus they have a larger cast. We'll see once the reviews come out."
Bandstand hasn't yet played an 8 show week. Plus, I imagine that they had a lot of press comps in last week. Between the two, if I were an investor, I would hope my money was in Bandstand. It is on an upward trajectory pretty consistently. "
Good points all around. I agree that I'd put my money on BANDSTAND over AMELIE.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Skimbleshanks2 said: "If it misses a Best Musical nod will GROUNDHOG DAY close??
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I believe they've got some staying power in them. At least through the summer, no? Karl has become quite the champion spectacle for them and their grosses keep climbing.
I am impressed with Oslo and Bandstand. Bandstand, for their creative team taking the reigns and making changes for the better from Papermill and slowly but surely growing their grosses. And Oslo, for climbing quite substantially in grosses after an Off-Broadway run last year to the same subscriber base. I think the word is out in how good that show is.
I am surprised that "Little Foxes" has not done better at the box office.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
IdinaBellFoster said: "SIX DEGREES's poor numbers is the fault of marketing. If I didn't go on this message board I wouldn't have a clue that it was running."
The commercial has been running constantly on TV at all hours of the day and night --- so it's kind of inconceivable that you wouldn't have had any clue. I've also received several direct mail pieces --- so I don't know what else you would have them do, short of having Alison Janney come knocking at your door!
GreasedLightning said: "Skimbleshanks2 said: "If it misses a Best Musical nod will GROUNDHOG DAY close??
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I believe they've got some staying power in them. At least through the summer, no? Karl has become quite the champion spectacle for them and their grosses keep climbing.
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It also might take another couple of weeks to see a real bump from positive word-of-mouth from the reviews for something like GHD (and, honestly, the publicity of AK going on despite a pretty severe injury, and maybe even the really good notes that Andrew Call has gotten as the understudy.) I'd argue it's got more staying power than you might think.