Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/21/2018 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: WAITRESS (7.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.9%), WICKED (3.0%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (2.8%), BEAUTIFUL (1.3%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (0.8%), ANASTASIA (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SCHOOL OF ROCK (-8.0%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-7.5%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-5.3%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-4.6%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-4.5%), JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (-4.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-4.1%), CHICAGO (-4.0%), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (-3.1%), THE CHILDREN (-1.7%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-1.4%), COME FROM AWAY (-1.3%), METEOR SHOWER (-1.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.1%), ALADDIN (-0.5%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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[Danielle49]

SpongeBob

[a-mad]

Waitress 

[poisonivy2]

OOTI  

Waitress :) 

[brdwybound04]

I have a feeling some theatres may soon become available... things aren't looking too good for "The Sponge", "The Island", "The Schoolhouse", and another show may soon be "getting the Boot", if things don't vastly improve...

[TFMH18]

Yikes bad week for most. Ah well, the January slump is to be expected. 

[ethan231h]

Spongebob makes me so sad!!! It is such a fun exciting show, and has a great message. From what I understand though they were expecting to possibly close up shop over labor day, tix are on sale till then and thats when the palace renovation is supposed to start....If this can last till May, then it should be fine till september, but who knows.

Happy for waitress! wonder why the drop for Bands Visit?

[Phantom of London]

Springsteen done 3x what Spongebob did, with a Theatre half the size and only 5 performance.

someone needs to start a thread, what next for the Palace?

[haterobics]

Phantom of London said: "someone needs to start a thread, what next for the Palace?"

And after someone replies: renovation, what else would there be to talk about?

[haterobics]

Ouch, Dolly! Dropped $2M in one week... (yes, I know)

[LesWickedly]

Wow Waitress! This is their highest week ever. Impressive that it happened in the middle of January, but was expected. 

[KRaser1]

Hoping OOTI can last awhile. It’s such a great production...I want it to last through Tony Nominations at least.

[qolbinau]

If Once On This Island cannot make a dollar at this level they chose the wrong theatre. Are we sure they are in trouble? I haven’t seen it but I thought it was a small show. Didn’t this once play at the Booth? I know it won’t be anywhere near as small as n2n and I have never seen a lower nut for a musical but that nut was around 250k 8 years ago (**** time flies). So if the producing was right maybe OOTI is doing fine?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Wow, that WAITRESS number is incredible. I'm thrilled HAMILTON wasn't the only hit to come out of that season.

If Bernadette tracks in a similar fashion to those first numbers, she'll be on track for a 1Million+ first week.

[HogansHero]

qolbinau said: "If Once On This Island cannot make a dollar at this level they chose the wrong theatre. Are we sure they are in trouble? I haven’t seen it but I thought it was a small show. Didn’t this once play at the Booth? I know it won’t be anywhere near as small as n2n and I have never seen a lower nut for a musical but that nut was around 250k 8 years ago (**** time flies). So if the producing was right maybe OOTI is doing fine?"

The producing is not right but (contrary to what some seem to think) at the current level it would be breaking even. Never gonna recoup, but could hang on. Let's see if it keeps up.

 

[RaisedOnMusicals]

IdinaBellFoster said: "Wow, that WAITRESS number is incredible. I'm thrilled HAMILTON wasn't the only hit to come out of that season.

If Bernadette tracks in a similar fashion to those first numbers, she'll be on track for a 1Million+ first week."

It’s fair to say that the Waitress numbers are “incredible”, but then how do you describe the DEH numbers? Waitress is featuring two stars and has over 500 more seats to sell.  DEH is a show with no names in a small house that still grossed $100K more. It’s not a completion, but still. And don’t get me wrong, good for Waitress  

 

[Mildred Plotka]

My heart sank a little when I saw the Dolly gross dip until I realized they only did 2 shows.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Mildred Plotka said: "My heart sank a little when I saw the Dolly gross dip until I realized they only did 2 shows."

MOOD.

[blaxx]

qolbinau said: "If Once On This Island cannot make a dollar at this level they chose the wrong theatre. Are we sure they are in trouble? I haven’t seen it but I thought it was a small show. Didn’t this once play at the Booth? I know it won’t be anywhere near as small as n2n and I have never seen a lower nut for a musical but that nut was around 250k 8 years ago (**** time flies). So if the producing was right maybe OOTI is doing fine?"

 

This production has a larger cast and production than the original. 

The original run barely made a profit back in the day with a cast of 11 and very simple set and costumes. 

[IdinaBellFoster]

RaisedOnMusicals said: "IdinaBellFoster said: "Wow, that WAITRESS number is incredible. I'm thrilled HAMILTON wasn't the only hit to come out of that season.

If Bernadette tracks in a similar fashion to those first numbers, she'll be on track for a 1Million+ first week."

It’s fair to say that the Waitress numbers are “incredible”, but then how do you describe the DEH numbers?Waitress is featuring two stars and has over 500 more seats to sell. DEH is a show with no names in a small house that still grossed $100K more. It’s not a completion, but still. And don’t get me wrong, good for Waitress "

I don’t see what DEAR EVAN HANSEN has to do with any of this...but since you decided to make the connection I’ll bite. DEH won Best Musical in addition to a slew of other awards. WAITRESS did not. That’s why I said the grosses were impressive. 

 

[Miles2Go2]

Spongebob - ouch! It’s pretty clear this show isn’t going to make it. I was doubtful about this show all along, but ironically now I want to see it before it closes. I’ll be in NYC in 2 weeks. Looks like I’ll have no problem getting tickets if I can see two shows over the two nights we’ll be in NYC which leads me to....

OOTI which I think is at least staying stable. This is the show I want to see the most.

My travel companion and I agreed to only see Broadway musicals we both haven’t seen before. This will actually be his first experience seeing a Broadway show (he’s seen Wicked on tour). I’ve seen all but four musicals currently on Broadway. And it’s either these two or A Bronx Tale and Anastasia.

So TKTS here we come in two weeks. Now, OOTI & Spongebob, don’t close before we get there.

[qolbinau]

Ok well I saw OOTI and they definitely have chosen the right theatre for artistic purposes (it would be far less effective in any other space - if it could work at all). But I still wonder who budgeted this show and what the plan was. Maybe in reality the budget and running costs blew out from the initial plan because I would have thought any realistic projections of this show’s revenue wouldn’t be far off what it is taking in now. Unless some very overly ambitious person thought they were going to sell a whole theatre’s worth of premium tickets??

[HogansHero]

qolbinau said: "But I still wonder who budgeted this show and what the plan was. Maybe in reality the budget and running costs blew out from the initial plan because I would have thought any realistic projections of this show’s revenue wouldn’t be far off what it is taking in now. Unless some very overly ambitious person thought they were going to sell a whole theatre’s worth of premium tickets??"

Who: Ken Davenport

What: an incompetent dream


And so the pattern of flops continues. 

 

[blaxx]

I still remember when Kenny D had a fit for not getting a single Tony nomination for his Jesus-awful Godspell revival.

Gurl won't learn his lessons well.

[quizking101]

KINKY BOOTS holding its own in the low-700s is about par for the course for an 8-show week. It's certainly no longer raking the big bucks in like it did with the original cast or upper-tier stunt casting (Wayne Brady, Todrick Hall, Brendon Urie), but I wouldn't necessarily fret quite yet. The lowest it has ever dipped for a normal 8 show week is the low-600s, and if it reaches or goes below that point, then the plug will likely be pulled.

I don't think Jake Shears is turning out to be the awesome stunt casting they hoped it would be, especially considering a large portion of the Scissor Sisters demographic has likely already seen KINKY BOOTS. The real test of this set of stunt casting will be when the girl from Pentatonix joins in two weeks. At that point, I think it can be safely determined if the show either needs to step up its stunt casting or fold after the summertime.