Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/28/18

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/28/2018 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: MY FAIR LADY (4.6%), TORCH SONG (4.5%), THE WAVERLY GALLERY (2.8%), FROZEN (1.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1.6%), CHICAGO (1.5%),

Down for the week by attendance was: ANASTASIA (-13.3%), AMERICAN SON (-10.1%), KINKY BOOTS (-7.6%), WAITRESS (-7.4%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (-6.3%), HEAD OVER HEELS (-5.4%), KING KONG (-5.3%), WICKED (-5.0%), BEAUTIFUL (-4.9%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-3.9%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-3.2%), BERNHARDT/HAMLET (-1.8%), MEAN GIRLS (-1.8%), THE FERRYMAN (-1.3%), THE NAP (-1.2%), ALADDIN (-1.1%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-0.9%), SUMMER (-0.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.4%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-0.4%), THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT (-0.2%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.2%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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[BroadwayConcierge]

Ouch, Broadway!

[barcelona20]

Not a good start for The Prom with average ticket price of $54.  Looks like it will need incredible reviews.

Who knew Benanti would be such a draw?

[laurensambrose]

OUCH at Anastasia.

So happy to see Benanti brought some more attention to My Fair Lady!

[Call_me_jorge]

Lmao at the people who said Anastasia didn’t need to stunt cast. Wasn’t it supposed to recoup this month? There’s been no announcement yet and I doubt there will. I wonder if they took a bigger hit this month than they expected.

[CedricOates]

King King up over 100k from last week!

[BroadwayBear2]

I want to comment something insightful about the ever baffling low grosses of HOH, and now Torch Song--but I can't think of anything except how sad it makes me. 

[barcelona20]

CedricOates said: "King King up over 100k from last week!"

Average ticket price still too low.

[James2]

A very nice increase for The Ferryman.

[matty159]

Well deserved for The Ferryman! I hope it keeps going strong. I cannot rave enough.

[EJ24642]

Glad The Ferryman went up! I hope it runs for a long time, it's absolutely incredible. 

And ouch to Anastasia, Summer, and Torch Song. 

[ACL2006]

Is HEAD OVER HEELS even making enough money every week to pay the cast and crew? It averaged about 25k a performance.

[JBroadway]

ACL2006 said: "Is HEAD OVER HEELS even making enough money every week to pay the cast and crew? It averaged about 25k a performance."

 

The cast and crew salaries are part of the weekly running cost, which gets paid every week regardless of whether the grosses are enough to cover it. That's where this supposed "angel investor" comes in. 

[HogansHero]

For any number of reasons, a comparison between HOH and Torch Song is inapt. The latter needs to improve, obviously, but it has not opened and its baked in costs much less than HOH. It is also in a significantly smaller house. 

[LuPita2]

"Who knew Benanti would be such a draw?"

Everyone.

[qolbinau]

Not sure how we can conclude she is a draw from this data.....

[BroadwayBear2]

HogansHero said: "For any number of reasons, a comparison between HOH and Torch Song is inapt. The latter needs to improve, obviously, but it has not opened and its baked in costs much less than HOH. It is also in a significantly smaller house."

Not at all trying to say their low grosses are due to a similarity, it is just disheartening two shows showcasing the LGBT community financially "on the rocks"

[HogansHero]

@BB2, yes, I get that, though it's not like we have had a dearth of LGBTQ shows of late (and I think that, together with Torch Song's run at 2ST, contributes to what we are seeing at the box office right now). That could change with the right reviews and the right marketing. Let's hope. But HOH is another kettle of fish-not something easy to get into the LGBTQ embrace. I appreciate your affection for it, but you have to admit it is a quirky sale, and manifestly, no one is clamoring to see it. It is not even in striking distance.

[Catsbroadwayfan]

While I never wish closing on any show, HOH is being very dumb. This angel investor is giving them a huge second chance to fix the marketing and find a way to save the show. They keep making mistake after mistake, a huge one being taking peppermint off of all the advertisments. I know if I was given a large amount of money to guarantee my show would make it through the holidays, I would be working my a** off to find a marketing technique that works.

[Miles2Go2]

HogansHero said: "For any number of reasons, a comparison between HOH and Torch Song is inapt. The latter needs to improve, obviously, but it has not opened and its baked in costs much less than HOH. It is also in a significantly smaller house."

For a variety of reasons I’ve mostly posted about recently, I really want Torch Song to do really, really well. I do hope that word-of-mouth and positive reviews help the show’s box office improve. I also hope I can make it to NYC before it closes. 

[robskynyc]

Catsbroadwayfan said: "While I never wish closing on any show, HOH is being very dumb. This angel investor is giving them a huge second chance to fix the marketing and find a way to save the show. They keep making mistake after mistake, a huge one being taking peppermint off of all the advertisments. I know if I was given a large amount of money to guarantee my show would make it through the holidays, I would be working my a** off to find a marketing technique that works."

TBH peppermint isnt exactly a big draw- outside of drag race fans, no one has a clue who she is. and her character has the least amount of stage time. IMO rachel york or socha is more of a draw than her. of the few times i've seen the show, I saw Sharon Catherine Brown go on as pythio twice, and she is leaps and bounds better than peppermint. 

also why do people assume the investors are "throwing away their money?" they're probably doing it for the tax break.

[HogansHero]

robskynyc said: "TBH peppermint isnt exactly a big draw- outside of drag race fans, no one has a clue who she is. and her character has the least amount of stage time. IMO rachel york or socha is more of a draw than her. of the few times i've seen the show, I saw Sharon Catherine Brown go on as pythio twice, and she is leaps and bounds better than peppermint.

also why do people assume the investors are "throwing away their money?" they're probably doing it for the tax break."

To be honest, no one in the show is gonna sell tickets, at least not in a financially significant way. 

And there is no such thing as "doing it for the tax break." If you lose a dollar, the tax break is (at best) 40 odd cents. So if someone were doing it for the tax break, then they REALLY are throwing away their money. My assumption is that this angel just loves the show and wants it to keep running. For people who buy homes they never live in, keeping this show running is a drop in the bucket. 

 

[MadsonMelo]

The Prom, geez!

Anastasia Will need that stunt casting


And after seeing HOH, it’s veRy sad it’s a flop, I had a blast watching the show. Way better than Pretty woman, for example