Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/27/2018 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 (7.6%), SAINT JOAN (5.9%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (3.1%), TRAVESTIES (2.3%), WICKED (1.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.4%), MEAN GIRLS (0.1%), THE BOYS IN THE BAND (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SUMMER (-8.6%), CAROUSEL (-7.8%), BEAUTIFUL (-7.7%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-7.5%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-5.2%), WAITRESS (-4.7%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-4.2%), KINKY BOOTS (-3.8%), CHICAGO (-3.6%), THE ICEMAN COMETH (-2.4%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-2.4%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-1.6%), ANGELS IN AMERICA (-1.5%), CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (-1.1%), ANASTASIA (-1.0%), ALADDIN (-0.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.8%), ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (-0.5%), THE LION KING (-0.3%), COME FROM AWAY (-0.2%), FROZEN (-0.2%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY (-0.2%),

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[Call_me_jorge]

Ouch!

[ACL2006]

Memorial day weekend is typically a bad weekend. Not surprised by the dips.

[Jessetenny]

Thrilled that Spongebob continues an uphill climb!

Also thrilled for Mean Girls! Two of the best shows of the season, in my opinion.

[Sauja]

Sincere question: do subscription houses ever end runs early, or are they bound to keep them open for as long as any subscribers are still holding tickets? Looking at those Saint Joan numbers, I just feel like MTC must be bleeding money week to week.

[bdn223]

Sauja said: "Sincere question: do subscription houses ever end runs early, or are they bound to keep them open for as long as any subscribers are still holding tickets? Looking at those Saint Joan numbers, I just feel like MTC must be bleeding money week to week."

Rarely if ever, the last one to close early was Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown closing on January 2, 2011 instead of January 23, 2011.  When a non-profit company mounts a production the capitalization cost is supposed to include the cost to run the production for the duration of the limited engagement. This capitalization normally does and should include any subscription tickets already sold prior to the season/production's mounting. Thus any traditional tickets sold would be considered not profit, but contribution to the bottom line. This is why when a subscription house extends a production any sales during that period are normally considered pure profit. This does not include transitioning the production to an opened run, as then a weekly operational cost should be taken into the accounting. Lincoln Center Theater Company is also often an outlier as several of their productions that are not mounted at the Vivian Beaumont include other producers.  Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was also a nightmare of a production in both the drama surrounding it and the production itself. Even During Christmas week, it couldn't even get to 50% capacity with a cast that included Patti Lupone, Laura Benanti in their first musical after Gypsy, Brian Mitchell Stokes, Danny Burstein, and Sherie Rene Scott, which was when they decided to close the show early. Saint Joan may not be making money, but it definitively isn't loosing money either. If anything it means that Condola Rashad will not have a production built around her again anytime soon. 

[TotallyEffed]

I noticed that SpongeBob isn’t on TDF for the first time in a long while. Good for them!

[uncageg]

TotallyEffed said: "I noticed that SpongeBob isn’t on TDF for the first time in a long while. Good for them!"

Noticed that also last night.

 

[vedahanks]

I've been impatiently waiting for new Spongebob dates on TDF. I noticed that that show and many others have dropped off. Any guess as to when we can see them come back?