Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/26/17

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 3:50pm
Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/26/2017 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: SCHOOL OF ROCK (25.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (16.4%), KINKY BOOTS (15.4%), CHICAGO (14.9%), CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (13.1%), ANASTASIA (11.4%), CATS (7.2%), MISS SAIGON (6.7%), WAITRESS (5.2%), WICKED (4.6%), HELLO, DOLLY! (4.0%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (3.8%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (2.9%), BEAUTIFUL (2.5%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (2.2%), JUNK (2.1%), ALADDIN (1.3%), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (1.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (1.1%), HAMILTON (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: M. BUTTERFLY (-25.8%), HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (-20.3%), TIME AND THE CONWAYS (-15.2%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-5.5%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (-4.5%), METEOR SHOWER (-1.3%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 3:52pm

Ouch for both M. Butterfly and Home for the Holidays...

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:01pm
Somebody give me that $14 ticket to home for the holidays please ¯\_(?)_/¯
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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:01pm

Heard from a source that Home For The Holidays will be extending through February before making way for Mean Girls. Announcement should be soon

 

 

 

 

SERIOUSLY THOUGH HOW ARE THE PRODUCERS OF THAT S*IT SHOW OK WITH THIS.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/26/17#5
Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:03pm

Man, and I thought In Transit was delusional. 

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:03pm

I know it's a touchy subject since everyone on here loves Once On This Island, but those are not sustainable grosses. Hopefully good reviews can pull it around? Good word of mouth can only do so much if their gross potential is still so low. 

 

Edit: Upon further research, looks like's it's following the same trajectory of Gentlemans Guide, which I would say is actually the most comparable production. 

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:03pm
HAMILTON’s highest-grossing week EVER. Unbelievable!!!
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/26/17#8
Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:09pm

Home For The Holidays actually made less money this week from 8 performances than they did last week with only 5.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:15pm

And the numbers for DEH are insane! $1,950,000, an average price of $243 per ticket. Those numbers are Hamiltonian.

And this was for Noah Galvin's first week!  I always knew that that Platt guy was holding down the box office.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:27pm

Home for the Holidays---average ticket price $13.51   Do they count comps as "0.00"?   I paid more for that at the local community chorus concert.  :)

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:28pm

Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Dolly, Come From Away, and The Band's Visit all broke their respective house records. What an INCREDIBLE week for Broadway, hot dayum.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:29pm

Home for the Holidays is at 3.3% gross potential! They continue to amaze me....

Was there any reason for the Hamilton bump? I didn't hear of anything particularly special going on with it last week.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:31pm

Are those correct figures for Home For The Holidays?  Oh my.  

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:31pm

Wasn't the weather very nice for the Thanksgiving week?  I know that this week is always a strong week, but I could see that nice weather would have increased last minute buyers and thus not having to have last minute discount seats.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:37pm

The DEH figures have little to do with Noah Galvin and all to do with people who planned ahead long ago to buy Thanksgiving tickets before Ben's last show announcement.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:37pm

It was really gorgeous there for the most part, I can see why more people would have come out. And those house records are the best news I've heard all day!

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 4:55pm

re Home for the Holidays:

1. I am thinking this may be the lowest percentage gross in history. 

2. I'd be curious the last time a show had a lower average ticket price. 

And in a week that will likely go down as breaking the most house records in history.

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:08pm

>I'd be curious the last time a show had a lower average ticket price.<

The Blonde in the Thunderbird

Average ticket price: $11.02 for the week ending 7/17/05

Grosses - The Blonde in the Thunderbird

 

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:21pm

Thanks Smaxie. How about in inflation-adjusted dollars Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/26/17

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:26pm

The Little Engine that could: Chicago has already grossed $2.0M more in 2017 than it did for all of 2016, with four weeks to go, including Christmas week.  As long as they can keep the nut down, that show is going to go on for years.  Clearly, it is not the only one that is going to run 'forever'; what amazes me is how it chugs along with modest grosses year after year, but makes enough to stay afloat.  Reminds me more of London theatre than NYC.  (I saw The Woman in Black in a 1/3 filled house in London 25 years ago, and somehow it is still running.  Saw The 39 Steps in a 1/3 filled house 10 or so years ago, and it ran for several years more.  Would never happen in NYC).

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:34pm

Well, with an inflation calculator I found online, $11.05 in 2005 equals $13.91 today. 

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:49pm

And---Thanksgiving week is when people start to get in the "holiday spirit".  They should have seen an increase of people wanting Christmas/Holiday music.    

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 5:57pm

urnothingwithoutme said: "The DEH figures have little to do with Noah Galvinand allto do with people who planned ahead long ago to buy Thanksgiving tickets before Ben's last show announcement."

Um, if you were referring to my post, I was being sarcastic. I thought it was pretty obvious. 

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Posted: 11/27/17 at 6:47pm
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS averaged just 449 people per show and $6,050 per show. This is just pathetic.
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