Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/9/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/9/2018 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: WICKED (7.1%), ANASTASIA (3.3%), CHICAGO (3.0%), SUMMER (2.9%), WAITRESS (2.9%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (2.4%), MY FAIR LADY (1.5%), STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER (-24.3%), BERNHARDT/HAMLET (-12.0%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-9.8%), BEAUTIFUL (-9.0%), CAROUSEL (-8.3%), HEAD OVER HEELS (-6.4%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-6.3%), MEAN GIRLS (-5.6%), FROZEN (-4.8%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-4.7%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-4.5%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-3.3%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-2.7%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-2.5%), THE LION KING (-1.7%), ALADDIN (-1.5%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.7%), COME FROM AWAY (-0.5%),

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[SweetLips22]

Morning everyone---Just wanted to be first...x

[CPannullo]

Ouch

[BroadwayBear2]

Multiple shows dropped by 100k+, and HOH....dear Jesus--fix it......

[Wick3]

I'm surprised to see DEH dip below 100% gross potential... first time since March 2017. 

[CoffeeBreak]

ouch

Head Over Heels, Once On This Island, The Nap, Kinky Boots, Summer, Waitress, Bernhardt/Hamlet ....

[Huss417]

BroadwayBear2 said: "Multiple shows dropped by 100k+, and HOH....dear Jesus--fix it......"

Schools are back in session. Also next couple of weeks with Rush Hashana and Yom Kippur attendance will be off.

 

[dearalanaaaa]

Hansen, Mean Girls, Band's Visit... I guess the audience for those shows going back to school really hit them hard. Some had their first dip under 100% in the past year!

EDIT: I have no idea why I put years... Clearly, I wasn't thinking while typing.
Nonetheless, Head over Heels is head over heels in debt at this rate.

 

[Sauja]

I can't begin to fathom why Head Over Heels is being kept open at this point. It has to be losing money hand over fist. 

 

I also can't understand what MTC was thinking in programming The Nap for their Broadway season. It's so thoroughly and specifically British that it makes no sense here. And it's showing!

[JBroadway]

It's worth noting that it was Katrina Lenk's vacation this week (right?) which might have effected sales

[JSquared2]

dearalanaaaa said: "Hansen, Mean Girls, Band's Visit... I guess the audience for those shows going back to school really hit them hard. Some had their first dip under 100% in years!"

 

Years??  Mean Girls opened this past spring, and The Band's Visit opened 11 months ago.

[haterobics]

dearalanaaaa said: "Hansen, Mean Girls, Band's Visit... I guess the audience for those shows going back to school really hit them hard."

Hard? Nearly sold out houses with slightly less premium seating? A lot of shows would wish for such hardship...

[TFMH18]

I really am curious if Katrina Lenk's vacation affected TBV or if it was just a seasonal drop for them as it was most everyone else this week.

[HogansHero]

CoffeeBreak said: "ouch

Head Over Heels, Once On This Island, The Nap, Kinky Boots, Summer, Waitress, Bernhardt/Hamlet ...."

There is no cause for an ouch for five of the seven shows you name. Two are recouped and profitable, one is profitable, and two are early weeks of a non-profit's run. On the other hand, there are two new musicals still running that have a combined gross that has to be the lowest in both absolute inflation-adjusted terms and percentage in this century, and perhaps of all time as to the latter. I think the last double whammy that might have flirted with this level of failure (but without inflation adjustment) would be a few frames of Xanadu/Passing Strange, a decade ago.

[dramamama611]

There is no way to know, unless you poll everyone that didnt go see the show last week.