Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:20pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/9/2014 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: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (13.6%), LOVE LETTERS (13.1%), DISGRACED (13.1%), CABARET (12.7%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (12.3%), JERSEY BOYS (11.5%), CINDERELLA (11.5%), WICKED (9.8%), ON THE TOWN (9.0%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (8.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (8.4%), ONCE (7.7%), THE LAST SHIP (7.5%), ROCK OF AGES (6.5%), PIPPIN (6.2%), SIDE SHOW (5.3%), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (5.0%), CHICAGO (5.0%), BEAUTIFUL (4.5%), MATILDA (3.9%), MAMMA MIA! (3.2%), THE COUNTRY HOUSE (3.0%), IF/THEN (1.8%), THE REAL THING (1.0%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (0.9%), THE LION KING (0.8%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (0.2%),
Down for the week by attendance was: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-3.6%), ALADDIN (-2.5%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-1.1%), THE RIVER (-0.8%),
Pootie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:30pmNice to see almost everything gain.
#BoycottTrumplikePattiMurin
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:32pmAmazing numbers for A Delicate Balance and The River. I suppose neither is very surprised.
lynnetoomey
Understudy Joined: 5/8/09
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:35pmNice seeing "On The Town's" gradual ascent. I'm guessing they"ll be showing seven figures in a couple weeks. Average ticket price also a good barometer, and it too is making a steady climb. This one is going to prove the naysayers wrong. It is just superb musical theatre.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:41pmA better week for OTT, but I don't know about 7 figures.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 3:47pm
If The Elephant Man played to 102.8% capacity, does that mean that standing room was sold after all?
Updated On: 11/10/14 at 03:47 PM
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 4:15pmI was just thinking the same regarding The Elephant Man. I don't see any other way they could surpass 100% capacity.
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 4:31pmYeah, I mean I don't care because I purchased a regular ticket from telecharge months in advance, but on the elephant man sro page, one poster mentioned that at the box office they told them that there was no rush policy in place. The whole situation just doesn't really make any sense to me.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 4:36pmRemember, OTT is in the largest house on Broadway. It Grossed $834,000, which is enviable to most shows. Only 12 shows had a higher gross, and 22 had worse. It also sold the 4th most tickets of any show. The size of the house is distorting some of the numbers as percentages.
Frustrated critic
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 4:40pm^ Most of us are aware of this. Their producers picked too big of a theater. But thanks for the lesson.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 4:58pm^^ I thought the Gershwin was the largest house on Broadway?
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#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 5:04pm
I guess my question is how much more is the overhead due to the size of the house? Is the rent more? Are there higher operating costs because of it?
OR does it cost basically as much to rent and run as a more standard sized theater?
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 5:21pm
As discussed in another thread, there is also the consideration that if they don't earn a certain gross for a certain amount of weeks (determined in the contract between the theatre and the show), the theatre has the right to evict the show. I would guess that would be the main threat to the show lasting at the moment. If the running costs are in the rumored $600,000 range, then I would imagine the producers are at least satisfied with the current numbers for the time being (especially with the Holiday season coming soon). But, if it's not meeting the agreed-upon figure between theatre and production (which, who knows what that is), then the theatre might be more interested in exploring other options of shows they think will could sell better in their space.
Glad to see most shows up this week – although, after last week's dismal sales, the grosses almost had to go up.
Updated On: 11/10/14 at 05:21 PM
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/10/14 at 5:38pmi'm not sure it should count as going up unless they rose above the level of their pre-Halloween dive.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:46amI can't imagine anyone getting kicked out of the Lyric. It's simply too big.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 7:00am
"Side Show" is filling the seats slowly, but apparently with TDF. Those numbers are not encouraging, and a bit sad, since the show has an effective ad campaign lacking last time, word of mouth, anticipation, and now, familiarity among many with at least two of the songs. We all know previews for shows without box office stars are an unpredictable time on B'way. Still, this is a high profile revisal, and it's not cutting it financially.
I also noted that "if/Then" climbed back only a bit, and in terms of average ticket price, is tanking. And that's a week before Menzel will be out for numerous performances. It will do well through the holidays; past mid-January, dubious, as many before me have opined.
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Pootie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 10:30am
I also noted that "if/Then" climbed back only a bit, and in terms of average ticket price, is tanking. And that's a week before Menzel will be out for numerous performances. It will do well through the holidays; past mid-January, dubious, as many before me have opined.
So this week will tank... But this is what really makes me curious: Menzel has been out a few times now, and grosses tanked with the stand-by (no criticism of Burns), yet the producers have still chosen to let Burns on again for this planned vacation. Does it logically follow that the losses are still above nut, making it worthwhile to keep the show running instead of going dark? Or is there some other reason to do it despite losses..
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ScottK
Understudy Joined: 12/13/12
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 11:25ami'd guess that you still need to pay everyone anyway (incl all the rental expenses), so any dollars earned are better than zero
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 11:54amRegarding the Elephant Man, apperantly they do offer SRO as long as they're completely sold out
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:03pmAccording to BW gross chart Lyric has 14,992 to Gershwin's 14,472.
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TheatreKid3
Broadway Star Joined: 3/25/12
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:08pmAccording to IBDB, the Gershwin has 1,935 seats compared to the Lyric's 1,829 seats.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:20pmBut IBDB doesn't take into account seats removed for a particular production. Going by current configuration for their respective shows, the Gershwin has 1809 seats and the Lyric has 1874.
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theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:45pmAnd then there's the performances of Wicked when they use the full rear mezzanine, which they've only been doing since the seats were replaced a year ago. That increases the Gershwin's capacity to 1928.
TheatreKid3
Broadway Star Joined: 3/25/12
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 12:54pmThey don't always use the full rear mezz? Or do you mean they increased capacity and added more seats?
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14
Posted: 11/11/14 at 1:11pmThe last four rows on the sides of the rear mezzanine were walled off before Oklahoma moved in back in 2002. Those seats were not used until all of the seating was replaced just before Wicked's 10th anniversary last year. They don't sell them during slower times though.
