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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18

Rob

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#1
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:07pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/22/2018 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: SUMMER (13.8%), SAINT JOAN (12.4%), TRAVESTIES (10.7%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (5.2%), FROZEN (4.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.7%), ANASTASIA (3.7%), THE BAND'S VISIT (3.6%), LOBBY HERO (3.3%), KINKY BOOTS (2.3%), ALADDIN (1.5%), THE ICEMAN COMETH (1.2%), HELLO, DOLLY! (1.0%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.9%), ROCKTOPIA (0.8%), ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (0.7%), WICKED (0.2%), MEAN GIRLS (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: BEAUTIFUL (-6.0%), CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (-5.9%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-4.1%), CAROUSEL (-3.7%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-2.4%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-1.2%), THE LION KING (-0.8%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-0.5%), ANGELS IN AMERICA (-0.3%), WAITRESS (-0.2%), CHICAGO (-0.1%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%),

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#2
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:15pm

The Three Tall Women grosses are really really impressive.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#3
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:25pm

YAY for Mean Girls, awesome numbers!
Also, very happy to see Angels and Three Tall Women doing good!
Summer almost joining 1M club LOL
Also, the numbers for SpongeBob and Margaritaville are awful, geez!
I hope OOTI wins Best Revival, its really in need.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#4
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:29pm

I am curious. How can Chicago be up from the previous week, but still listed as down percentage-wise?

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#5
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:31pm

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "I am curious. How can Chicago be up from theprevious week, but still listed as down percentage-wise?"

Even though there may have been fewer people, the average ticket price was up.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#6
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:33pm

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "I am curious. How can Chicago be up from theprevious week, but still listed as down percentage-wise?"

Note that it's only the attendance percentage that has gone slightly down. The gross potential percentage has gone up.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#7
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:40pm

Nice to see My Fair Lady doing quite well with 100% capacity.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#8
Posted: 4/23/18 at 3:49pm

I believe Margaritaville is making around it's weekly nut. Still don't see it lasting past Labor Day.

How much longer for A Bronx Tale? Lots of new shows planning to arrive next season without a theater available.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour will be starting up in Somerville, NJ on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City, MO(May 29-Jun 3) and is now then touring throughout Japan August & September 2018. Japan schedule: Tokyo(Aug 15-21), Kanagawa(Aug 28-29), Shizuoka(Aug 30), Osaka(Aug 31 - Sept 2).

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#9
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:02pm

I still do not understand why Dolly is closing.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#10
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:07pm

ACL2006 said: "How much longer for A Bronx Tale? Lots of new shows planning to arrive next season without a theater available."

I imagine Bronx Tale will close up shop around Labor Day and use the set and costumes for its tour (which starts in November). Play that Goes Wrong is probably in a similar boat.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#11
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:15pm

SmokeyLady said: "I still do not understand why Dolly is closing."

Probably a dip in advance sales. I wish more shows followed this path to be honest, so as to allow for more new theater to open. I wouldn't mind all the jukebox shows if it meant there were also original works opening all the time -- even if it meant shows I like were closing.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#12
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:18pm

Who is going to see Summer? Not being facetious—are there that many Donna Summer fans who want to see a jukebox show about her in spite of poor word of mouth?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#13
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:21pm

I said it in the other thread, but Dolly closing is likely due to whatever name they had lined-up fell through.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#14
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:29pm

raddersons said: "Probably a dip in advance sales. I wish more shows followed this path to be honest, so as to allow for more new theater to open."

There were no advance sales, since there were no tickets even put up for after Bernadette leaves in July. Probably just a case of someone dropping out or this always being the plan.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#15
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:32pm

The decline of Beautiful continues...

usn120 said: "Really... REALLY...? It's been 8 years and you thought it was worth bumping to share that you THINK Broadway "Star" Alex Wyse is Jewish?"

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#16
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:35pm

Sauja said: "Who is going to see Summer? Not being facetious—are there that many Donna Summer fans who want to see a jukebox show about her in spite of poor word of mouth?"

I thought this, too, until I hung out at my friends' apartment this weekend, and saw Summer sippy cups, and they almost never go to shows?!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#17
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:43pm

Carousel's numbers are good. Still surprised a cast recording hasn't been announced.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#18
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:43pm

While I'm not interested in Summer (or Cher, for that matter) the majority people who might be are not necessarily 'theater people" and therefore will have no idea about any sort of word of mouth.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#19
Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:58pm

Sauja said: "Who is going to see Summer? Not being facetious—are there that many Donna Summer fans who want to see a jukebox show about her in spite of poor word of mouth?"

Judging from the crowd on Friday night, people are really really enthusiastic about it and seem to be loving it.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#20
Posted: 4/23/18 at 5:48pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "The decline of Beautiful continues..."

This is the lowest capacity it's been since the beginning of the year and the weekly gross is not the lowest it's been this year.

For a show that's about to potentially be smacked by a glut of other jukebox musicals, it's holding up pretty well.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#21
Posted: 4/23/18 at 6:24pm

Musical Master said: "Nice to see My Fair Lady doing quite well with 100% capacity."

It's a subscription house one week after amazing reviews, would be more surprised if that weren't the case.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#22
Posted: 4/23/18 at 9:53pm

The sponge is so inconsistent- it has had 1 mil weeks, and it has 500,000 weeks. Can it swim to the Tonys before the sponge can't soak anymore?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#23
Posted: 4/23/18 at 10:09pm

If they dont get as many tony noms as they were expecting I think they will close in the next couple of months.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#24
Posted: 4/23/18 at 10:39pm

Everything seems to be doing quite well or well enough. Margaritaville and Sponge will probably stick it out through the summer.

Children of a Lesser God seems to be the only show that will close before the summer. Does Roundabout subscribers mean it will stick it out a bit longer or does that not matter?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/22/18#25
Posted: 4/23/18 at 10:48pm

AntV said: "Children of a Lesser God seems to be the only show that will close before the summer. Does Roundabout subscribers mean it will stick it out a bit longer or does that not matter?"

It isn't a Roundabout show; the production is just renting out Studio 54 from RTC.

usn120 said: "Really... REALLY...? It's been 8 years and you thought it was worth bumping to share that you THINK Broadway "Star" Alex Wyse is Jewish?"

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