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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18

Rob

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#1
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:13pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/29/2018 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: ROCKTOPIA (11.2%), BEAUTIFUL (3.8%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (2.9%), CHICAGO (0.7%), LOBBY HERO (0.7%), WICKED (0.7%), THE LION KING (0.6%), THE BAND'S VISIT (0.4%), THE ICEMAN COMETH (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SCHOOL OF ROCK (-10.6%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-9.3%), SAINT JOAN (-6.9%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-5.8%), TRAVESTIES (-5.4%), ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (-5.0%), WAITRESS (-4.1%), ANASTASIA (-3.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-3.7%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-3.0%), CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (-2.0%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-1.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.5%), SUMMER (-1.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.9%), FROZEN (-0.8%), ALADDIN (-0.7%), CAROUSEL (-0.6%), MEAN GIRLS (-0.2%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), COME FROM AWAY (-0.1%),

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#2
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:18pm

Up and up and up for Three Tall Women!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#3
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:20pm

I'm hoping for a boost for Once on This Island and Spongebob after Tony noms!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#4
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:22pm

I wonder why The Band’s Visit had a decent uptick in was, for the most part, a down week from the prior week. Was Tony S back, and if he was does it really matter?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#5
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:24pm

RaisedOnMusicals said: "I wonder why The Band’s Visit had a decent uptick in was, for the most part, a down week from the prior week. Was Tony S back, and if he was does it really matter?"

They had a deal on TodaysTix a few weeks ago.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#6
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:26pm

Jessetenny said: "I'm hoping for a boost for Once on This Island and Spongebob after Tony noms!"

Hoping?!? At 543K ( it's lowest) for SPONGEBOB, it will need a miracle.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#7
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:32pm

Trish2 said: "Hoping?!? At 543K ( it's lowest) for SPONGEBOB, it will need a miracle."

Well, if they can stop a volcano from decimating Bikini Bottom, anything is possible!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#8
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:32pm

Trish2 said: "Hoping?!? At 543K ( it's lowest) for SPONGEBOB, it will need a miracle."

Well, if they can stop a volcano from decimating Bikini Bottom, anything is possible!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#9
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:44pm

22 years later, I'm pretty amazed by Chicago's gross.

Also, I assumed McPhee would be a slightly bigger draw for Waitress.

Updated On: 4/30/18 at 03:44 PM

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#10
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:44pm

I’m a bit surprised by the 80% for My Fair Lady even though it was at 100% capacity especially after I just forked over a boatload for an aisle seat Center Orchestra ticket during my upcoming visit. I get that sometimes discounted seats, TKTS tix or weeks that include an opening night affect percentages even for fully sold out weeks, but none of these seem to apply here plus this is in a subscription-based house. Can someone explain?

I also note lots of shows have percentages this week between 30% and 70%. I bet summer (and in some cases, Tony noms) can’t come quick enough for them.

Updated On: 4/30/18 at 03:44 PM

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#11
Posted: 4/30/18 at 3:46pm

Hmm I usually don’t follow grosses that much, so I’m not sure about the way they handle giving tickets to tony voters and things like that. I’m just curious about HPs grosses considering the regular pricing kicked in. How did they get less than the week of 4/8, but had the same amount of seats sold?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#12
Posted: 4/30/18 at 4:05pm

Even with opening night comps, Summer is now in the Million Dollar Club. As James M ("Jimmy" Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18 Nederlander always said, the only one who knows if a show will be a hit is the audience. Break a leg to everyone on every show for Noms in the morning!

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#13
Posted: 4/30/18 at 4:18pm

Miles2Go2 said: "I’m a bit surprised by the 80% for My Fair Lady even though it was at 100% capacity especially after I just forked over a boatload for an aisle seat Center Orchestra ticket during my upcoming visit. I get that sometimes discounted seats, TKTS tix or weeks that include an opening night affect percentages even for fully sold out weeks, but none of these seem to apply here plus this is in a subscription-based house. Can someone explain?

I also note lots of shows have percentages this week between 30% and 70%. I bet summer (and in some cases, Tony noms) can’t come quick enough for them."

Someone correct me if I'm wrong (since I know this is how it is at Roundabout), but as a subscription house, the tickets going to the subscribers will not be at top ticket price, i.e., they won't be paying $189 to sit in the orchestra. Once the subscribers trickle out, the grosses should rise, especially if they keep selling out.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#14
Posted: 4/30/18 at 4:51pm

SpongeBob SquarePants is relying solely on the Tony's at this point. It should earn a bunch of nominations as the competition is pretty weak this season.

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 4/29/18#15
Posted: 4/30/18 at 5:05pm

ljay889 said: "22 years later, I'm pretty amazed by Chicago's gross.

"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 4/29/18#16
Posted: 4/30/18 at 6:10pm

Ouch at Saint Joan Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#17
Posted: 4/30/18 at 6:13pm

ljay889 said: "22 years later, I'm pretty amazed by Chicago's gross.

Also, I assumed McPhee would be a slightly bigger draw for Waitress."

I went a few weeks back and the theatre was half empty.

I left at intermission because I wasn't really feeling the cast at all and I'd seen it before.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#18
Posted: 4/30/18 at 6:28pm

St. Joan, Once On This Island, Margaritaville and Spongebob are not doing well. How soon do they close?

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#19
Posted: 4/30/18 at 6:39pm

CoffeeBreak said: "St. Joan, Once On This Island, Margaritaville and Spongebob are not doing well. How soon do they close?"

Based on past experience, I would say roughly one to two weeks after they release the closing notice.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/18#20
Posted: 4/30/18 at 8:44pm

CoffeeBreak said: "St. Joan, Once On This Island, Margaritaville and Spongebob are not doing well. How soon do they close?"

1 is in a subscription house so it is irrelevant, and 2 will run until deep pockets decide to close them (almost undoubtedly post Tonys or later) and 1, well, the best of the lot and bleeding profusely, will likely be the one to close as soon as the nomination (totally undoubtedly) does not create a significant bump in the box office (and no one in their right mind would think it will have enough of an effect). It seems we always have an inexplicable show running and this one has been it almost since day one.