Broadway Blog - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/28 & Algonquin Round Table Quote of the Week

"Ouch."

-- Alexander Woollcott's entire review of the play, Wham!

The grosses are out for the week ending 12/28/2008 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: 13 (35.6%), THE 39 STEPS (33.0%), CHICAGO (31.1%), GYPSY (30.4%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (28.4%), SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW (21.0%), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (20.7%), IN THE HEIGHTS (19.6%), BOEING-BOEING (19.6%), MARY POPPINS (18.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (17.9%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (16.6%), GREASE (14.1%), ALL MY SONS (14.0%), THE LION KING (13.8%), SPAMALOT (13.5%), DIVIDING THE ESTATE (13.2%), LIZA'S AT THE PALACE (10.8%), PAL JOEY (9.8%), AVENUE Q (9.0%), MAMMA MIA! (8.3%), SPEED THE PLOW (7.9%), HAIRSPRAY (7.0%), EQUUS (5.0%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (2.2%), SOUTH PACIFIC (0.9%), JERSEY BOYS (0.4%),

Down for the week was: IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS (-14.3%), SPRING AWAKENING (-3.2%),