how much money did GHD lose?

[massofmen]

17.5 million? the whole investment? 

[broadwaysfguy]

oooo-weee thats a lot of money-a lot to recoup from tour and another london run

[HogansHero]

depends on the nut obviously, and I don't know what that is estimated to be. what I do know is that the average net gross is around $675k which seems pretty close to what the nut might be. But not much would have been returned even if the nut is considerably less: at $600k, the show would have left $16.5mil unrecouped. 

[Laurapattifan]

HogansHero said: "depends on the nut obviously, and I don't know what that is estimated to be. what I do know is that the average net gross is around $675k which seems pretty close to what the nut might be. But not much would have been returned even if the nut is considerably less: at $600k, the showwould have left $16.5mil unrecouped."

Wasn't their nut around $800k?

[Rainah]

probably not too far off from the whole thing. They lost a ridiculous amount of money

[Wick3]

Really unfortunate to hear. I recall its London run last year was sold out sold out. Perhaps it is just timing as one of the causes for its demise? I recall wondering a year ago if this show would open on Groundhog Day itself.

[BroadwayConcierge]

[CindersGolightly]

Like, at LEAST a dollar.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

I would imagine that they lost the entire investment, or close to it.

Seems like they really busted a nut. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

TheGingerBreadMan said: "Seems like they really busted a nut."

[devonian.t]

And didn't Minchin and Warchus put a lot of their Matilda earnings into it?

[Valentina3]

They had a "successful" London run. That had to have brought in some seed money for the Broadway production, right? Also, they will be able to use a significant part of the set for the touring production so there's at some money to be saved that way. Let's hope the investors make some of the money back.

[Jarethan]

I doubt that set can tour.  Too complicated.  Think of all the problems they had at the beginning.  Cant deal with that every time they move to a new city.

I think one of the reasons is what I have been saying for awhile.  You open everything at once, i.e., mid-March to late April, and a lot of stuff is going to get lost in the shuffle.  Look at the non-musicals.  All opened at once, creating an issue for the average theatre-goer who would attend a number of them over the course of the season...not 6 or 7 weeks.  Net result: they all failed.

 

[songanddanceman2]

It's coming back to the UK.