Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:06pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/20/2012 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: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (27.8%), PORGY AND BESS (23.4%), ANYTHING GOES (14.1%), WAR HORSE (13.0%), CHICAGO (12.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (12.2%), MAMMA MIA! (12.2%), MEMPHIS (11.2%), WICKED (11.0%), JERSEY BOYS (8.1%), ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (6.9%), GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN (6.3%), PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (6.2%), VENUS IN FUR (5.6%), SISTER ACT (5.4%), END OF THE RAINBOW (3.8%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (3.6%), MARY POPPINS (3.4%), ROCK OF AGES (3.4%), ONCE (3.3%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (3.3%), EVITA (3.0%), GHOST (2.5%), GODSPELL (2.5%), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (2.4%), OTHER DESERT CITIES (1.9%), THE COLUMNIST (0.4%), THE LION KING (0.3%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (0.2%), NEWSIES (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (-5.8%), DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER (-5.1%), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (-3.7%), THE LYONS (-1.1%), CLYBOURNE PARK (-0.8%),
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:13pmNice to see that bump in attendance for HOW TO SUCCEED's final week; same for PORGY & BESS.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:27pmCrazy - was least week some sort of holiday?
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:39pmit was simply a beautiful week to be in the city. this weekend the city should be somewhat quite due to the Memorial Day weekend. "Once" keeps upping its numbers, over $800K and 98.5% capacity.
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.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:42pmOh, wait - all the tour presenters were in town, weren't they? (Not that that would have an impact on sales...)
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:53pm
@Newintown
Tour presenters/tony voter usually cause ticket sales to go down because of their compt tickets
So the jump in sales is usually uncalled for, nominations usually cause a modest bump for "hit" shows like Once andNewsies, but can save shows like Peter and the Starcatcher, as it did for Next to Normal, whose sales doubled after nominations
Think about it this way if a show is selling about 80-95% of their tickets prior to nominations their is not much room for improvement because the percentage they didnt sell before nominations now has to go to Tony voters, but for a struggleing show selling 50-60% of its tickets before nominations it only has to give up less than 15% to voters and still has room to sell the rest the rest, unlike hit shows
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:55pm
^Tour presenters get comped seats. If anything, they'd bring sales down.
ETA: Bdn - yup!! You beat me to it.
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Updated On: 5/21/12 at 03:55 PM
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:57pmSummer is just beginning and tourists are starting to come to NYC.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:05pmOmit Updated On: 5/21/12 at 04:05 PM
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:43pmThe Lyons doesn't look too well! Good start for Harvey!
cordialcherry
Chorus Member Joined: 11/13/11
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:44pmI'm happy for Peter and the Starcatcher. The grosses were making me nervous for a few weeks there, hopefully the Tonys will help it even more.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 5:45pm
Congratulations to "Chicago" for an awesome increase! from RC in Austin, Texas
"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)
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 6:36pmI wonder what the Lyons would need to keep running? I mean the numbers seem low, but the show is only 5 people, maybe a few big salaries, but the running costs can't be too much. It's not really a "desirable" theater space, so.. I wonder if it can keep going the way it is.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 7:44pmIt's also noteworthy that last week was the week of graduations at many of NYC's colleges. A lot of families in town.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:00pm
GHOST attendance increased by total gross decreased? Interesting...
Also with those Jesus Christ Superstar numbers, I wish CATCH ME didn't close. It was doing much better than JCS is now at the Neil Simon.
Bwaydide92
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/12
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:10pmThey probably sold more tickets at tkts than last week. I noticed the same thing.
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/20/12
Posted: 5/22/12 at 4:33pmIf it fails to garner any TONY awards, could JCS be on its way out the door.....?
