Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/10/17

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/10/2017 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: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (11.7%), MISS SAIGON (8.7%), THE CHILDREN (8.4%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (8.3%), CATS (8.1%), ANASTASIA (6.5%), WAITRESS (5.5%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (5.1%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (4.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.6%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (4.0%), CHICAGO (3.9%), WICKED (3.5%), M. BUTTERFLY (3.1%), HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (3.0%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (1.7%), HELLO, DOLLY! (1.4%), BEAUTIFUL (1.4%), METEOR SHOWER (1.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.6%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (0.4%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.3%), COME FROM AWAY (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: JUNK (-6.1%), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (-4.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.7%), ALADDIN (-0.8%), THE LION KING (-0.2%),

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[Call_me_jorge]

Heard home for the holidays was extending through last years holiday season

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Those are dire numbers for Home For The Holidays.  

[newintown]

Home for the Holidays appears to be playing to empty houses on comps.

Do you suppose anyone actually bought a $397 ticket?

[jkstheatrescene]

Dire, yes, but what other show can boast that they more than doubled their average paid ticket amount? 

[barcelona20]

OOTI had standing room, yet only $98 average ticket?  Comps given by the producers to make it seem like it was SRO?

[ACL2006]

Those are good numbers for OOTI. I see them continuing to climb throughout the holidays.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS must be getting the gullible tourists to pay the 50% off at TKTS that want to see a Christmas show. Feel bad for them. If they want to see a Christmas show, they should have gone down to MSG and see ELF.

[dramamama611]

Less than 400 seats filled per performance.....and since we know the imbalance of weekday to weekend audiences....what does Tuesday night look like?  200 seats?   How awful for the performers and audience.

[Broadway Joe]

Home for the holidays still hasn't hit the 100k mark. This board could do a go fund me and put on a show and at least hit the 100k mark every week lol

[TheyCallMePoppa]

Anyone else challenged/bothered/concerned by the numbers for Spongebob?

 

52% gross potential, sub $60 average paid, and a gross below Saigon for a show with a large cast.

 

I have heard so so so many delightful comments from friends and I'm excited to see it (especially because it sounds like wonderful escapism from our current reality). Late fall openings that don't hit the ground running can have a challenge getting to the summer.  Thoughts?

 

[Dallas Theatre Fan]

TheyCallMePoppa said: "Anyone else challenged/bothered/concerned by the numbers for Spongebob?



52% gross potential, sub $60 average paid, and a gross below Saigon for a show with a large cast.



I have heard so so so many delightful comments from friends and I'm excited to see it (especially because it sounds like wonderful escapism from our current reality). Late fall openings that don't hit the ground running can have a challenge getting to the summer. Thoughts?

You forget that Spongebob's opening night was last week and I'm willing to bet there were a lot of comps that night from the producers.

 

[Sondheim_Geek]

The show opened last week, so this is a seven performance week (but all the comps from opening pulling down the ATP).

[Jarethan]

Amazing week.  I find it so hard to believe that there was a time when the weeks leading to Christmas were the absolute worst of the year, even worse than summer.  Now, they are incredible.  Is this all due to tourism?????

Hopefully, Spongebob and OOTI will see their grosses go up in the coming weeks.  OOTI may have sold out, but it is never going to have a chance of returning its investment if it can't increase its average ticket price, i.e., sell more tickets at full price, not raise the prices.  Re Spongebob, I don't have a clue what to expect in the coming weeks / months, but clearly a major increase in business is needed to survive.

Wonder how long The Play That Goes Wrong will run  Its recent grosses are better than they were through most of its run.  Wish I liked it, so I cold be happier for  the crew.  I wonder what the breakeven is...does this have any chance of returning its investment???

[TheyCallMePoppa]

Yes, but the open was at the front of the week, and the paid percentage is low. Moreover, jump onto Ticketmaster and try to buy seats for any performance from tomorrow to February. And January is wide open.

I'm rooting for this special piece, but the lack of sell-through is really problematic, I think.

I really hope to see next week's numbers pop!

[ACL2006]

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG has tickets on sale through Feb. 25. I'd guess and say that's when it'll close. It will be launching a North American tour starting in the Fall 2018. I can't see it surviving through the winter.

[poisonivy2]

OOTI's numbers are worrying. It doesn't seem to be getting the bump it should have gotten from excellent reviews.

[perfectliar]

poisonivy2 said: "OOTI's numbers are worrying. It doesn't seem to be getting the bump it should have gotten from excellent reviews."

This was its best week yet. Everyone needs to chill.

[hamiltonstradition]

poisonivy2 said: "OOTI's numbers are worrying. It doesn't seem to be getting the bump it should have gotten from excellent reviews."

The next couple of weeks are before the influx of tourists, and school break. Numbers should go up, and it is running at 100% capacity.

[ACL2006]

The grosses for this week posted and this current week are the calm before the storm. Mostly getting some tourists and a lot of locals now. The biggest week of the year is Christmas week. If a show can't make money that week, they should post a closing notice.

[wicked4l]

I'm told Home for the Holidays is closing Sunday FYI.

[Alex Kulak2]

Wow. It's been a long time since I've seen numbers as abysmal as Home for The Holidays. Hell, The Story of My Life at least broke six figures once in previews.

[Jarethan]

ACL2006 said: "THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG has tickets on sale through Feb. 25. I'd guess and say that's when it'll close. It will be launching a North American tour starting in the Fall 2018. I can't see it surviving through the winter."

If it makes it to the end of February, hasn't it survived winter?

[Clyde15]

OOTI made 69% of its gross potential this week. It’s doing fine, and probably well above the red. It can’t be that expensive of a show to run.

[raddersons]

newintown said: "Home for theHolidaysappears to be playing to empty houses on comps.

Do you suppose anyone actually bought a $397 ticket?"

I asked this the first week the show started grossing. $397 is the top ticket price available, not necessarily paid.

[HogansHero]

OOTI is almost certainly still in the red. Circle is a tricky venue to make work, because it is small (hence the gross potential is not as good a metric as usual). This is not a small show, and it is not selling tickets at a viable price point right now. That said, it is too early to say it can't, though it is hard to see how it will survive long past the holidays, even if there are a few gangbuster weeks. 

Another exhibit in support of the notion that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.