Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/5/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/5/2018 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: CAROUSEL (4.1%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (2.5%), HELLO, DOLLY! (1.7%), GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER (1.5%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (0.5%), ALADDIN (0.3%), THE BOYS IN THE BAND (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: HEAD OVER HEELS (-14.7%), SUMMER (-8.9%), KINKY BOOTS (-7.3%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-4.6%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-4.5%), MY FAIR LADY (-2.9%), STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (-2.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-2.2%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-1.4%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-1.0%), ANASTASIA (-0.8%), WAITRESS (-0.7%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.5%), FROZEN (-0.4%), CHICAGO (-0.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%), WICKED (-0.3%),

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[barcelona20]

Summer will not be making it into autumn.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Kind of an "ouch" week all around.

Lowest numbers for Once on This Island in a few months. Not looking great for them.

[CoffeeBreak]

Not the best week for Kinky Boots, Getting The Band Back Together, Carousel, Head Over Heels, Summer, Once On This Island, Beautiful & Anastasia (Spongebob, SOR closing).

[RippedMan]

I would think SUMMER is expensive to run. It was awful. They should just turn it into a concert and get rid of the story. 

[TFMH18]

Oof. A rough week all around. Band's Visit dipping below 1 mil? OOTI looking...not great? Wonder why it was a less than stellar one. 

[JBroadway]

I have question for the industry-savvy here (Hogan, perhaps?): 

What accounts for the fact that grosses fluctuate for shows that are consistently sold out without discounts? I understand that there is often a discrepancy between the gross and the attendance due to the fact that many shows have steep discounts and/or comps. But what about shows like Harry Potter? It's never on TDF or TKTS, and as far as I know, they don't have any promo codes, and they haven't been changing their ticket prices. So why would their grosses (and for that matter, the average ticket prices) be different every week, when they always sell the exact same number of seats, seemingly at the exact same prices? 

What am I missing here? 

[Kitsune]

Definitely an ouch week all around. I know that summer vacation is ending, but I didn't think that tourist season was dropping off that much? (Disclaimer: Not a New Yorker!)

My next time in New York is October. I don't know if OOTI will still around that long, but I'm crossing my fingers.

[JSquared2]

JBroadway said: "I have question for the industry-savvy here (Hogan, perhaps?):

What accounts for the fact that grosses fluctuate for shows that are consistently sold out without discounts? I understand that there is often a discrepancy between the gross and the attendance due to the fact that many shows have steep discounts and/or comps. But what about shows like Harry Potter? It'snever on TDF or TKTS, and as far as I know, they don't have any promo codes, and they haven't been changing their ticket prices.So why would their grosses (and for that matter, the average ticket prices) be different every week, when they always sell the exact same number of seats, seemingly at the exact same prices?

What am I missing here?"

 

It's because of dynamic pricing. The gross potential doesn't include premium seats, so if they sell more premium seating in a particular week then of course they'll have a higher gross.

 

 

[MannPhan24601]

Wonder if Kinky's drop had to do with Cook's two absences last week.Saw that a few of his die hard fans on Twitter wrote that they exchanged their tickets

[musikman]

"What accounts for the fact that grosses fluctuate for shows that are consistently sold out without discounts? I understand that there is often a discrepancy between the gross and the attendance due to the fact that many shows have steep discounts and/or comps. But what about shows like Harry Potter? It's never on TDF or TKTS, and as far as I know, they don't have any promo codes, and they haven't been changing their ticket prices. So why would their grosses (and for that matter, the average ticket prices) be different every week, when they always sell the exact same number of seats, seemingly at the exact same prices?" 

Because different seats sell at different prices.  In some cases, a seat will sell at a premium price far in advance.  If that hasn't sold a few days before the performance, they'll drop it down to regular full price.  Dynamic pricing is also very much in play these days, so ticket prices will fluctuate. Additionally, various shows - even the big hits - have to comp or discount certain seats for trade/media/PR/employee purposes, which would mean lost revenue one week, and then an uptick on the next one.

[IdinaBellFoster]

CAROUSEL continues to dip. It must have a pretty high running cost with the cast size. 

[JBroadway]

musikman said: "Because different seats sell at different prices. In some cases, a seat will sell at a premium price far in advance. If that hasn't sold a few days before the performance, they'll drop it down to regular full price. Dynamic pricing is also very much in play these days, so ticket prices will fluctuate. Additionally, various shows - even the big hits - have to comp or discount certain seats for trade/media/PR/employee purposes, which would mean lost revenue one week, and then an uptick on the next one."

 

Gotcha. I knew that ticket prices fluctuate between different dates because of dynamic pricing, but I didn't realize that a single seat for a specific performance would be dropped down in price closer to the date of the show.

And yeah, I guess I was thinking because the reviews and Tonys are all done with, there wouldn't really be much comping, but you're right that there would still be some, and that the difference would show up on the grosses. 

 

[ACL2006]

MannPhan24601 said: "Wonder if Kinky's drop had to do with Cook's two absences last week.Saw that a few of his die hard fans on Twitter wrote that they exchanged their tickets"

I think Cook was out for more than two shows. Corey Mach went on Aug. 2 & 3 plus John Jeffrey Martin was one at least once last week as Charlie.

[EllieRose2]

A few of these shows just need to call it.  Yikes.  

[msmp]

I don't think I've ever seen a musical gross as little as Gettin' the Band Back Together has; it reminds me of (albeit a straight play) A Doll's House Part 2 after Julie White took over for Laurie Metcalfe. How long can it survive, even if Davenport pours money into hand-over-fist?

[EllieRose2]

Holler If Ya Hear Me did about $150k a week for the month it was open.

[MannPhan24601]

ACL2006 said: "MannPhan24601 said: "Wonder if Kinky's drop had to do with Cook's two absences last week.Saw that a few of his die hard fans on Twitter wrote that they exchanged their tickets"

I think Cook was out for more than two shows. Corey Mach went on Aug. 2 & 3 plus John Jeffrey Martin was one at least once last week as Charlie."

Corey Mach did go on the 2nd & 3rd. I know John Jeffrey Martin did do Bryant Park but I don't think he went on as Charlie in the show. Pretty sure David was on every show besides those two.

[MadsonMelo]

I think Next to Normal also made 198k during a week in the final of the run.

[Sauja]

EllieRose2 said: "Holler If Ya Hear Me did about $150k a week for the month it was open."

And Soul Doctor once had a $110K week for 8 shows. $97K the following week but only 7 shows. Also, I don't know if you'd count it as a musical or, well, even really a show. But Home for the Holidays never broke $100K in the Lunt-Fontanne, and its best week, it made 6.19% of the potential gross. https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/HOME-FOR-THE-HOLIDAYS

[EllieRose2]

Wow.  Six percent?  Crazy.

[BobPopa]

Sauja said: "EllieRose2 said: "Holler If Ya Hear Me did about $150k a week for the month it was open."

And Soul Doctor once had a $110K week for 8 shows. $97K the following week but only 7 shows. Also, I don't know if you'd count it as a musical or, well, even really a show. But Home for the Holidays never broke $100K in the Lunt-Fontanne, and its best week, it made 6.19% of the potential gross.https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/HOME-FOR-THE-HOLIDAYS"

AUGUST WILSON

[Sauja]

Whoops! You’re right—it was the August Wilson. Still a spectacular bomb!

[FranklinDickson2018]

Is Carousel really going to make it all the way to January 2019?

These are rather low grosses for a really "big" show. 

The last time they grossed over a million was 6 weeks ago.

So they have gone from approximately 1.1 million to approximatley 675K.  That is a big drop over 6 weeks.  And if I am reading the charts right the lowest grosses since they opened.

Interesting to see how it all plays out.  Perhaps the replacement for Ms. Fleming will spur the Box Office.  And that is coming up after 9/2/2018.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[YvanEhtNioj]

I wonder how much Nicolette joining waitress will help boost it’s gross.