Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/16/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/16/2018 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: GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER (31.6%), CAROUSEL (17.2%), KINKY BOOTS (14.7%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (13.2%), BEAUTIFUL (11.4%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (8.3%), SUMMER (6.1%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (5.5%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (4.7%), WAITRESS (4.1%), CHICAGO (3.2%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (3.0%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (2.6%), THE BAND'S VISIT (2.5%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (2.4%), ANASTASIA (2.4%), WICKED (2.0%), THE LION KING (1.9%), HEAD OVER HEELS (1.4%), FROZEN (1.0%), THE NAP (0.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.5%), COME FROM AWAY (0.1%), BERNHARDT/HAMLET (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: MEAN GIRLS (-0.8%), MY FAIR LADY (-0.4%),

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[WayTooBroadway]

MEAN GIRLS (-0.8%)

OMGZ IS IT KLOSING?

[quizking101]

It was 2-For-1 Broadway Week and many of these shows were closing, so that explains the jump in attendance for many of these shows

[barcelona20]

What is Head Over Heels thinking?

[MannPhan24601]

Woahh.Guess Mark Ballas had more power than we thought on Kinky Boots??

[haterobics]

MannPhan24601 said: "Woahh.Guess Mark Ballas had more power than we thought on Kinky Boots??"

That looks more 2-for-1 related. Attendance up, but ticket price the same...

[Call_me_jorge]

I mean Aladdin doesn’t seem to be losing money, but it certainly isn’t doing the same business it once had. Didn’t Disney close Little Mermaid and Mary Poppins when they were still doing relatively well? I wonder how much time aladdin has. Though. I guess they aren’t in hurry since there doesn’t seem to be a show ready to replace it.

[raddersons]

Aladdin ain't going anywhere.

[ggersten]

Call_me_jorge said: "I mean Aladdin doesn’t seem to be losing money, but it certainly isn’t doing the same business it once had. Didn’t Disney close Little Mermaid and Mary Poppins when they were still doing relatively well? I wonder how much time aladdin has. Though. I guess they aren’t in hurry since there doesn’t seem to be a show ready to replace it

Little Mermaid Grosses  Closing was announced on or about 30 June. From a BWW article:  "Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney Theatrical Productions, said, "Director Francesca Zambello, our creators, designers and cast conjured a world unlike any Broadway has seen before, and audiences have been captivated by it at every explosive performance. We are tremendously proud of the show and are confident we'll have an excellent summer but it would be fiscally irresponsible to our shareholders to risk operating losses with such a big show in the historically challenging fall months. We are closing the Broadway production to concentrate on the long future life of this title - beginning with next year's national tour and upcoming international productions."   


 

[ACL2006]

But seriously, how is HEAD OVER HEELS still open?

[SomethingPeculiar]

MERMAID and POPPINS aren't great comparisons for ALADDIN. Mermaid struggled for its final year and was at the Nederlander-owned Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Poppins closed to make room for Aladdin, but Disney was also splitting profits with Cameron Mackintosh (so it was probably less lucrative).

I think ALADDIN will be around for at least another year or two. When it does close... I wonder if Disney would return LION KING to the New Amsterdam? They've been paying rent to the Nederlanders for the past 12 years, and the New Am has more seats (but the Minskoff has more orchestra seats). Disney doesn't seem to have another big stage property in development, unless they want to musicalize Moana or Coco.

[TheSassySam]

Isnt Alan Menken working on Hercules?

[ACL2006]

Is SCHOOL OF ROCK going to make it until January?

[HogansHero]

ACL2006 said: "But seriously, how is HEAD OVER HEELS still open?"

as reported in another thread, some idiot invested additional money to keep it open. It seems like another one of the plague of shows we've had in the last few years (Once on This Island being another) that inexplicably runs notwithstanding losses until kicked to the curb (or in the case of OOTI, the sewer lines underneath 50th Street).

[BobPopa]

But what is OOTI's weekly cost? It's not busting the roof of the place, but based on the theatre it's in. The Avg ticket price and occupancy aren't anywhere near the horror of HEAD OVER HEELS

[JBroadway]

BobPopa said: "But what is OOTI's weekly cost? It's not busting the roof of the place, but based on the theatre it's in. The Avg ticket price and occupancy aren't anywhere near the horror of HEAD OVER HEELS"

 

Between the water, the animal care, the child actor care, the sand maintenance, plus all the rest of the standard high expenses of running a Broadway show, I can't imagine OOTI is making its weekly nut. 

[HogansHero]

BobPopa said: "But what is OOTI's weekly cost? It's not busting the roof of the place, but based on the theatre it's in. The Avg ticket price and occupancy aren't anywhere near the horror of HEAD OVER HEELS"

it was reported to be high 400s and its net gross is high 300s. It is definitely not at HOH's level of absurdity, but it's been losing money a lot longer. 

[SomethingPeculiar]

EDIT: I stand corrected!

 

My guess: OOTI's break-even is well over $500K per week. Of the 37 weeks in 2018, it's been in the $530s or below for 23 weeks and $500k or below for 13 weeks.

Hogan probably knows!

[pippin423]

Did Bruce not perform this past week? Don’t see Springsteen on Broadway listed.