Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:10pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/18/2018 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: SCHOOL OF ROCK (24.5%), CHICAGO (20.5%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (18.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (18.8%), KINKY BOOTS (17.0%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (15.3%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (15.1%), ANASTASIA (13.9%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (13.2%), HELLO, DOLLY! (10.4%), WICKED (6.6%), THE BAND'S VISIT (6.2%), BEAUTIFUL (5.1%), FARINELLI AND THE KING (4.4%), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (4.0%), JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (3.6%), ALADDIN (2.4%), COME FROM AWAY (1.3%), THE LION KING (1.3%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (1.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.7%),
Down for the week by attendance was: WAITRESS (-11.2%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-9.5%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:14pm
Forgive my ignorance, but is this kind of pan-Broadway jump in attendance/grosses typical for Valentine's week? I always thought late-January and February were one of the danger seasons for a show.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:20pm
I was about to type in 'why can't every week be President's week?', when I saw your post. President's week-end always provides a boost at the box office. Also, and this may be directly tied to President's week-end, some schools are already having winter breaks...I guess attaching to what is already a three-day week-end.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:27pm
An almost $225, 000 increase for "Chicago". Yay!!
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Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:30pm
Did Sara B already leave Waitress?
CoffeeBreak
Broadway Star Joined: 3/30/17
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:32pm
think any winter closing? The Play That Goes Wrong. Once On This Island. SpongeBob. Kinky. Beautiful. ?
how many show die in the winter? shows waiting in the wings?
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:33pm
Jarethan said: "Did Sara B already leave Waitress?"
No but she did miss a performance last week.
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:37pm
Jarethan said: "I was about to type in 'why can't every week be President's week?', when I saw your post. President's week-end always provides aboost at the box office. Also, and this may be directly tied to President's week-end, some schools are already having winter breaks...I guess attaching to what is already a three-day week-end."
Oh! That makes sense; thanks for the response. I think a lot of schools do pick Presidents' Day week for their February break, at least up in this area (New England); they already would be taking Presidents' Day off, so they only have to cancel 4 days of classes instead of 5 when building the schedule for the year.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 3:38pm
little_sally said: "Jarethan said: "Did Sara B already leave Waitress?"
No but she did miss a performance last week."
This was also the first week following Jason Mraz's run as Pomatter. Not sure if that could account for the whole drop in prices/gross but it probably contributed.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:15pm
I thought Sara missed at least two?
Happy for Hello, Dolly! This was again another week that they have managed to sell a lot of tickets at the last-minute, which hopefully bodes well for the future sustainability and/or worth of mouth. With the reviews coming out next week - we can keep looking up!!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:16pmSara actually missed four (and a half).
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:19pm
CoffeeBreak said: "think any winter closing? The Play That Goes Wrong. Once On This Island. SpongeBob.Kinky. Beautiful. ?
how many show die in the winter? shows waiting in the wings?"
I highly doubt any of these would close up shop so soon. I can imagine ISLAND and SPONGEBOB holding on until the Tonys and PLAY THAT GOES WRONG going up until the end of its July 1st extension ending (since its cheap to run). I don’t see BEAUTIFUL being toppled since it’s become a Boomer tourist show.
KINKY BOOTS is the only one that I think will have some make or break weeks ahead since their replacements aren’t exactly setting the box office on fire. I think they may be done come Labor Day at the latest
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#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:29pm
I can't imagine SPONGEBOB holding up once FROZEN & HARRY POTTER start.
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#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:38pm
ACL2006 said: "I can't imagine SPONGEBOB holding up once FROZEN & HARRY POTTER start."
Why would two sold out shows affect it? If anything, they can get the people who the other two shows are turning away...
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 4:57pm
haterobics said: "ACL2006 said: "I can't imagine SPONGEBOB holding up once FROZEN & HARRY POTTER start."
Why would two sold out shows affect it? If anything, they can get the people who the other two shows are turning away..."
They should hire the Times Square Spongebob impersonator to hand out SBSP fliers in front of The Lyric and the St James when those two shows open.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 8:02pmThe producers of Spongebob are apparently firm believers in the merits of throwing good money after bad.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 8:34pm
The producers of Spongebob are not particularly focused on the show's fortunes on Broadway, so the notion that they consider it good or bad is basically a non-sequitur.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 9:23pm
They are building a brand, not trying to make a living on Broadway. So the cost (i.e., bad money) is, to them, an investment in that brand.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 10:20pm
School of Rock has been going so radically up and down lately... Spongebob and Harry Potters audiences are too similar, and Harry Potter did take some Spongebobbers. I'd seen Spongebob and now I'm seeing Harry Potter, so I could see many other people doing the same thing. Frozen only has the little children though.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/20/18 at 10:24pm
dearalanaaaa said: "I'd seen Spongebob and now I'm seeing Harry Potter, so I could see many other people doing the same thing."
If everyone does the same thing, then there won't be a problem.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:21am
dearalanaaaa said: "I'd seen Spongebob and now I'm seeing Harry Potter, so I could see many other people doing the same thing."
Sounds like a symptom of narcissism - assuming that "many" others will do what you have done.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/18/18
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:50am
HogansHero said: "They are building a brand, not trying to make a living on Broadway. So the cost (i.e., bad money) is, to them, an investment in that brand."
Losing millions in hopes that it will be profitable later makes no sense.
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