Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:10pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/27/2017 in BroadwayWorld'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: BANDSTAND (6.8%), PRINCE OF BROADWAY (4.8%), GROUNDHOG DAY (4.6%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (4.2%), A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 (3.3%), WAITRESS (3.1%), WAR PAINT (3.1%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (2.8%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (1.1%), BEAUTIFUL (0.8%), COME FROM AWAY (0.3%), MARVIN'S ROOM (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-8.2%), CATS (-8.0%), THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER (-7.9%), WICKED (-5.6%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-5.1%), ANASTASIA (-4.6%), MISS SAIGON (-3.5%), CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (-2.6%), 1984 (-2.5%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-1.2%), THE LION KING (-1.2%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.4%), ALADDIN (-0.3%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.3%), CHICAGO (-0.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.2%),
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:19pm
Dear Evan Hansen made more money than Wicked last week.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:20pm
Prince of Broadway's reviews will definitely not be helping it this upcoming week. Oh boy.
1984's average ticket price is only $20 above TDF prices. They must be just giving tickets away. Which is a shame, because I think it's jarring but effective, emotionally and intellectually.
Good to see Great Comet finishing strong. They crowd last week was pretty wild, lots of cheering. This huge, expensive show has really turned into something with a cult following.
Warpaint at 40% gross potential... It just keeps falling... how in the world is this show still alive?
ladypresent
Understudy Joined: 3/13/17
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:22pm
wow those are some bad numbers all around and we haven't hit the fall yet.
I wonder if broadway has hit the tipping point with avg tix price.
capitalization to operating costs to avg tix price. this might be a trend here. small percentage that make money, and the rest just hang on until the inevitable.
TheThreadMaster
Featured Actor Joined: 2/25/17
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:30pm
1984's average ticket price is only $20 above TDF prices. They must be just giving tickets away. Which is a shame, because I think it's jarring but effective, emotionally and intellectually.
I saw the 5pm Saturday performance this weekend. TDF put me 7th row, dead center. Nearly everyone around me seemed to be either TDF or TKTS. The ushers moved pretty much everyone sitting in the rear orchestra down front prior to curtain. Very sparsely attended performance, although the first 10 or so rows of the orchestra were full after the house was dressed. Not sure what the dress circle/balcony were like in numbers.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Notreallysilent 2
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/15
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:35pm
I know this has been talked about, but should we be expecting a holiday closing for waitress? I know they already recouped and they probably don't have a high nut, but is the show still safe making $600k?
Updated On: 8/28/17 at 03:35 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:40pm
Poor Groundhog Day. Even with closing, they are only pullling in 80% attendance and less then 50% Gross potential.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:44pm
dramamama611 said: "Poor Groundhog Day. Even with closing, they are only pullling in 80% attendance and less then 50% Gross potential. "
I'm shocked. It's recognizable, and it's got great reviews... but it just can't sell tickets. I think the fact that it's source material is so beloved is hurting it more than helping.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:48pm
I can see A Bronx Tale and Beautiful closing by the end of the year.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:52pm
Notreallysilent 2 said: "I know this has been talked about, but should we be expecting a holiday closing? I know they already recouped and they probably don't have a high nut, but is the show still safe making $600k?"
What show?
Notreallysilent 2
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/15
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:54pm
Oh sorry I completely forgot to mention the show stupid me! I meant waitress I'll edit the message
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:56pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Dear Evan Hansen made more money than Wicked last week.
You mean it GROSSED more than Wicked, which yes, is interesting given the capacities of the respective theaters. But it's probably MADE more money than Wicked in many prior weeks, if by making money you're measuring the amount of profit generated
"
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 3:57pm
A BRONX TALE is still doing decent business, but I'm wondering if it's starting to hit the wall with its target demographic.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:06pm
War Paint only barely broke half a mil this week and keeps heading downward. Truly surprised it hasn't posted closing yet.
Also, in what world does Doll's House make it to January?
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:06pm
Very grim numbers for WAR PAINT.
I also find the GREAT COMET finances very fishy. Yes the closing notice is helping, but weren't the reports that the advance was "dismal" after Ingrid left?
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:07pm
IdinaBellFoster said: "I also find the GREAT COMET finances very fishy. Yes the closing notice is helping, but weren't the reports that the advance was "dismal" after Ingrid left?"
I think most of Comet's numbers these days are from fans who bought tickets after closing was posted to see it while they can.
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:07pm
Groundhog Day has a following. I sat next to a woman at the Something Rotten San Francisco tour stop last weekend who planned to fly back to New York to see it this weekend.
But there weren't enough people like her. And middle-aged guys like me, who loved the film, weren't going to turn out in droves. I almost saw it, but my family was going to have to sit in three separate sections on a Monday evening, so I abandoned that plan without much regret. The truth is that the idea of a Groundhog Day musical didn't much appeal to me.
I got tickets in advance to see Great Comet, and not because I went in as a Josh Groban fan. I heard it was a unique, only-on-Broadway experience, and it exceeded my expectations.
But of course, Great Comet had its own now-familiar problems and apparently was going to fall off a cliff after Labor Day - and probably would have already if it weren't closing.
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:18pm
raddersons said: "I'm shocked. It's recognizable, and it's got great reviews... but it just can't sell tickets. I think the fact that it's source material is so beloved is hurting it more than helping. "
I'd have to agree with that. My father (a hardcore SNL and ergo Bill Murray fan) saw the show and actually walked out at intermission. I was shocked — both because I saw the show myself and loved it and because he's almost a bigger theatre nut than me and had never walked out of a performance before — and when I asked him why he left, his biggest complaint was: "They did Rita wrong." He didn't think Barrett was bad or anything, it just annoyed him how different she was from the movie actress's portrayal.
I have friend (who has seen everything on Broadway) who won't even go to it because he thinks a musical adaption of one of his favorite movies is blasphemous.
Interestingly, they both said they would've preferred if it was a stage play, a la Curious Incident.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 4:21pm
IdinaBellFoster said: "I also find the GREAT COMET finances very fishy. Yes the closing notice is helping, but weren't the reports that the advance was "dismal" after Ingrid left? "
I know at least four people that bought tickets to see it for a second time when Mandy Patinkin was announced. Once he dropped out and the show announced closing, all of them held onto their tix to have one last hurrah (I know I did).
Also, the show has a cult following at this point. See Twitter, people have seen the show many many many times.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 5:05pm
ladypresent said: "wow those are some bad numbers all around and we haven't hit the fall yet.
I wonder if broadway has hit the tipping point with avg tix price.
capitalization to operating costs to avg tix price. this might be a trend here. small percentage that make money, and the rest just hang on until the inevitable. "
re the fall, that is what folks are waiting for. The fall is a season of good numbers; the dead end of summer is not.
re the "trend" no, it has always been thus. It's a risky business. "You can make a killing but you can't make a living" and all that.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 5:11pm
Why has War Paint not posted its closing notice? At this point, any hopes of turning things around have been dashed.
SmokeyLady
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 5:20pm
Itonlytakesajourney said: "Why has War Paint not posted its closing notice? At this point, any hopes of turning things around have been dashed.
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Maybe for this producer it is not about the money? Who knows.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17
Posted: 8/28/17 at 6:21pm
The lead producer of War Paint is David Stone. He ran If/Then for a year. He also is making money from Wicked as we type.
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