Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 6:19pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/25/2015 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: THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (13.0%), SYLVIA (13.0%), AMAZING GRACE (8.1%), FUN HOME (3.2%), ON YOUR FEET! (2.6%), DAMES AT SEA (2.4%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (0.9%), FINDING NEVERLAND (0.5%), FOOL FOR LOVE (0.5%), CHICAGO (0.4%), KING CHARLES III (0.4%), BEAUTIFUL (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE GIN GAME (-17.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-6.9%), SPRING AWAKENING (-4.5%), HAND TO GOD (-3.5%), KINKY BOOTS (-3.5%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-3.5%), ALLEGIANCE (-3.0%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-2.5%), THE KING AND I (-2.1%), OLD TIMES (-2.0%), MATILDA (-1.7%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.3%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-1.3%), LES MISÉRABLES (-1.1%), ALADDIN (-1.1%), WICKED (-0.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.2%), HAMILTON (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 6:20pm
Wow..so few shows were up this week. I'm contemplating visiting NYC in a couple of months. I really want to see Judith Light in "Therese Raquin".
"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)
Updated On: 10/26/15 at 06:20 PM
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 6:25pm
There are only four more weeks until thanksgiving and the usual upswing from tourists so not long now.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 6:30pm
If every week on here, we end up in a discussion about how attendance means nothing since it is easy to fill a house if you paper and discount, why does BWW rank shows going up/down by attendance and not box office?
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 6:36pm
Horrible word of mouth or not, seems as if China Doll is going to do itself fine. First week of previews grossed more than their potential. Not surprising.
asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 10:12pm
Sunny11 said: "There are only four more weeks until thanksgiving and the usual upswing from tourists so not long now.
While it is true that Thanksgiving week, New Year's Week, and to a lesser extent, Christmas week, do bring in higher sales, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually fairly dismal at the box office on Broadway.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 10:38pm
And the weeks following New Years even worse. We'll see who rises and who falls by then, I'm sure.
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/26/15 at 11:49pm
Welcome to the Million Dollar Club, On Your Feet. Was wondering how long that was going to take to be pushed over the edge. Great show, seen it twice already.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 9:43am
GreasedLightning, of course. That's because they had a very high advance sale. People bought tickets without having any idea what they were buying tickets to.
Jish
Stand-by Joined: 8/13/07
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:26am
haterobics said: "If every week on here, we end up in a discussion about how attendance means nothing since it is easy to fill a house if you paper and discount, why does BWW rank shows going up/down by attendance and not box office?"
Agreed!
This should be published based on gross vs. previous week (eliminating shows that had a partial week from the comparison)
Updated On: 10/27/15 at 10:26 AM
Skimbleshanks2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/11/15
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:46am
Asking this question not to be bitchy but because I'm genuinely curious: Why is Hand to God closing in January, not immediately? Its box office and attendance rates are horrible. Is it because it's transferring to London?
"See that poster on the wall? Rocky Marciano." - Andy Karl as Rocky in 'ROCKY'
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:49amYou'd have to ask Kevin McCollum.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:50am
Skimbleshanks2 said: "Asking this question not to be bitchy but because I'm genuinely curious: Why is Hand to God closing in January, not immediately? Its box office and attendance rates are horrible. Is it because it's transferring to London?"
They're probably hoping Bob Saget will give them a boost.
Updated On: 10/27/15 at 10:50 AM
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:51am
Why is Hand to God closing in January, not immediately?
It should be interesting to see how Bob Saget is going to elevate ticket sales.
Updated On: 10/27/15 at 10:51 AM
Skimbleshanks2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/11/15
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:52am
Yeah... I wonder if that was in the works as part of the closing... Interesting.
Sad to see it performing so badly. It's a very funny show and Steven Boyer is a talent!
"See that poster on the wall? Rocky Marciano." - Andy Karl as Rocky in 'ROCKY'
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:52am
He was not much help to Drowsy Chaperone. But this is a much cheaper show to run, I'm sure.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 10:56am
^Didn't he come into The Drowsy Chaperone around the time of the stagehand strike?
Braniff Forever
Featured Actor Joined: 6/27/15
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:00am
Glad to see ON YOUR FEET is now in the million dollar club. Do you think it could edge HAMILTON out next year and win Best Musical? I'm tired and bored with the Hamilton hype. I thought FUN HOME and ON YOUR FEET were better than HAMILTON, although HAMILTON does have very clever lyrics. What's all the fuss?
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:04am
I doubt it, with such good will as this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/theater/students-will-get-tickets-to-hamilton-with-its-hip-hop-infused-history.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:05am
If a little puppet show called Avenue Q can topple the multi-billion dollar franchise known as Wicked, anything is possible.
Updated On: 10/27/15 at 11:05 AM
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:19am
^ Very true, but On Your Feet is no Avenue Q.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:32am
I imagine Avenue Q had no way near the 18 million capitalization of ON YOUR FEET. 
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:41am
But Wicked didnt get unanimously great reviews. In fact some critics were quite negative. Avenue Q was seen as more creative, and an underdog. And they completely changed the game of Tony campaigns with the "vote with your heart" campaign. no one had ever done that. On Your Feet is also a jukebox musical, which have repeatedly been felled by original musicals as of late.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/25/15
Posted: 10/27/15 at 11:42am
I think Hand to God is still on the radar of cool young theatre people coming to New York for the holidays. It seems silly to shutter now. All it needs is a little boost since their running costs are so low.
