Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/10/14

[Rob]

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/10/2014 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: VIOLET (9.4%), BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (3.3%), WICKED (2.6%), MAMMA MIA! (2.0%), LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL (1.7%), ROCKY (1.3%), KINKY BOOTS (1.2%), BEAUTIFUL (0.9%), CINDERELLA (0.7%), CHICAGO (0.5%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: CABARET (-7.2%), ONCE (-6.4%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (-5.7%), LES MISÉRABLES (-5.4%), PIPPIN (-4.5%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.9%), ROCK OF AGES (-1.8%), IF/THEN (-1.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.7%), NEWSIES (-0.5%), MATILDA (-0.5%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-0.1%),

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[beautywickedlover]

Congrats to 'Aladdin' for breaking a record for the highest weekly gross ever at the New Amsterdam. Not a bad week at all for shows most shows.

[MegInManhattan]

Question for anyone who may be in-the-know: If Hedwig has been selling premium tickets at almost $400 since June, why does the "top ticket paid" always seem to only be around $250?

[AvenueQResident]

I wonder if 'Aladdin' is not too far off from recouping, has had an incredible year thus far.

[mjohnson2]

Disney usually doesn't announce if they recoup (NEWSIES was the exception) and they are probably a long ways off from recouping anyways due to a budget probably upwards of 20 million.

[Noel&Cole]

When is NPH's last week in HEDWIG?

PIPPIN & CINDERELLA both must be barely breaking even. I wonder if Keke Palmer will sell any tickets. And if Melanie Griffith really is joining PIPPIN how much that would help.

MATIDLA really holds very strong despite not having that Tony Award

[theatreguy]

This is NPH's final week in Hedwig.

[Jonwo]

I wouldn't be surprised if Aladdin recoups by next Spring. Poppins took 52 weeks to recoup and Aladdin been grossing over $1m a week so it's doable.

[dramamama611]

Not ALL tickets are sold at that price. Many were purchased in advance, before that high of "premium" price could be demanded.

I purchased an orchestra seat for under 200.

[haterobics]

"If Hedwig has been selling premium tickets at almost $400 since June, why does the "top ticket paid" always seem to only be around $250?"

I don't think BWW regularly updates that info, since Top Ticket should seemingly be a fixed amount, which would make it $450. As for why the average is still low, a lot of people bought early when seats were regularly priced. I even got a third row orchestra seat for NPH's final performance for regular price on Tony Sunday, so it's not like the show was sold out and crazy from the beginning...

[beautywickedlover]

"Disney usually doesn't announce if they recoup (NEWSIES was the exception)"

I remember them announcing that 'Mary Poppins' recouped and then announced the national tour not long after.

[MegInManhattan]

Average price totally makes sense based on that. Thanks! It's a shame they don't update the "top" field, because it would be a really interesting stat to see and compare between shows if it was accurate.

[neonlightsxo]

Pippin has recouped wheras Cinderella has not, Noel&Cole.