Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:13pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/25/2018 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 (25.2%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (23.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (18.1%), MY FAIR LADY (10.7%), KINKY BOOTS (10.6%), ANASTASIA (10.5%), WAITRESS (10.4%), TORCH SONG (8.7%), CHICAGO (7.5%), HEAD OVER HEELS (7.4%), THE BAND'S VISIT (6.8%), MEAN GIRLS (4.8%), FROZEN (3.9%), THE WAVERLY GALLERY (3.8%), WICKED (3.6%), ALADDIN (1.6%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (0.5%), COME FROM AWAY (0.5%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (0.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.3%), NETWORK (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.2%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE CHER SHOW (-17.8%), THE PROM (-13.9%), THE NEW ONE (-11.8%), AMERICAN SON (-9.8%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-7.2%), KING KONG (-7.0%), SUMMER (-5.8%), THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT (-5.5%), THE FERRYMAN (-2.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-0.2%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:15pmWhy did The Cher Show drop so much?
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BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:20pm
Surprise, surprise, King Kong at $1.2m!
I may be in the minority, but I'm rooting for this one in the same way that I rooted for the movie Avatar (which I thought was just ok).
I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future.
seanmcdonagh121
Understudy Joined: 8/20/17
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:23pm
Delighted for another increase for The Prom
I’ve a feeling the box office might increase slightly over the next few weeks then potentially hold steady until Summer.
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:24pm
Damn, Hamilton. Knocking on $4M's door.
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:28pm
I'm hoping The Prom follows the same tracks as A Gentleman's Guide.....
Such a delightful show!!
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:29pm
BroadwayRox3588 said: "Damn,Hamilton. Knocking on $4M's door."
Right? Crazy. This was their second highest-grossing week of all time, about $50k shy of what they made week ending 12/31/17. I predict they'll break the $4M mark during the Christmas/New Year's week next month.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:37pm
Is that a house record for the St James? (Frozen?)
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:04pm
Warbucks2 said: "I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future."
Rewarding ineptitude married with spectacle only breeds more ineptitude. I'm all for rewarding risk, but not when it aspires to mediocrity. We must do better.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:38pm
So agreed Hogan. Especially after watching the Harold Prince Doc the other night. All those wonderful shows and the clips of the choreography still gives shivers. I think we are still producing good straight play productions today but the musicals are ho-hum.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:55pm
Happy to see THE PROM continue to climb!
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:57pm
I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and just prints money. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me.
zainmax
Broadway Star Joined: 1/12/17
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 5:06pm
VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and justprintsmoney. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."
There's a difference between a magic show on Broadway and a Broadway musical about a magician.
vanillaboots
Swing Joined: 9/29/18
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 5:08pm
VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and just prints money. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-magic-show-3468
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/merlin-4206
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/26/18 at 9:28pm
HogansHero said: "Warbucks2 said: "I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future."
Rewarding ineptitude married with spectacle only breeds more ineptitude. I'm all for rewarding risk, but not when it aspires to mediocrity. We must do better."
Perfect.
I hate to root against a show ... but this show deserves it.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/27/18 at 3:33am
When will Summer get its marching orders?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/27/18 at 4:59am
VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and justprintsmoney. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."
I dont get it either....but didnt the winner of AGT get a spot on this show?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
ddenoff2
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/12
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/27/18 at 7:03am
Right after Funny Girl, producer Ray Stark hired Bob Merrill to write the songs and my dad Sam Denoff and his writing partner Bill Persky to write the book for “Hocus Pocus” about Houdini, but the project vanished and, according to Mrs Merrill, nothing was ever written - at least nothing that survives
https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014/12/the-saga-of-ray-stark-and-houdini.html
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/28/18 at 7:13pm
I'm a little panicky about what happened to Cher so fast, this can't close too early.
Stephanatic
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/28/18 at 8:09pm
South Florida said: "I'm a little panicky about what happened to Cher so fast, this can't close too early."
I am completely confused by what you are saying, and other comments on this show that I at least can understand. Can you translate?
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/28/18 at 8:37pm
Just for tradition: How is Head Over Heels still open?
(yes, I know it has announced it is closing)
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/29/18 at 6:56am
I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but it had the worst drop in attendance and isn't that a bad sign?
Stephanatic
theaterlyfe19
Featured Actor Joined: 11/28/18
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/29/18 at 7:25am
Thrilled to see Waitress' grosses on the top, instead of the bottom section! It's also coming in on Nicolette's last week, maybe that has something to do with it. That, as the new Jo.
Hopefully they can maintain this!
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18
Posted: 11/29/18 at 9:45am
South Florida said: "I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but it had the worst drop in attendance and isn't that a bad sign?"
Shows typically only close if the running cost (nut) becomes higher than the gross -- and usually if a show is early in the run, they're willing to put a few weeks in to where the gross is lower than the nut so the show can build an audience. Cher Show is still pretty new, and raking in over a million dollars a week, so it's definitely fine. Attendance doesn't really matter as much, other than the fact that it means fewer chances of selling full-price tickets.
Not to mention, the typical Thanksgiving boost tends to do well for family oriented shows, due to out-of-towners coming into the city for a "family" holiday (see: Frozen), and the extra day off from school that kids get. A big chunk of the audience for The Cher Show (gays) already live in New York, and they were busy visiting their families in the midwest.
