Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/3/19

[Rob]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 3:08pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/3/2019 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:

Down for the week by attendance was: BEAUTIFUL (-11.4%), KINKY BOOTS (-10.1%), KING KONG (-9.1%), CHICAGO (-7.4%), TRUE WEST (-5.2%), MEAN GIRLS (-5%), CHOIR BOY (-4.7%), THE FERRYMAN (-4.5%), MY FAIR LADY (-4.5%), THE CHER SHOW (-4.4%), ANASTASIA (-4.2%), THE PROM (-4.1%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-3.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-3.3%), WAITRESS (-2.2%), NETWORK (-1.9%), FROZEN (-1.6%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-1.4%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-0.9%), THE LION KING (-0.9%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.8%), ALADDIN (-0.8%), COME FROM AWAY (-0.7%), WICKED (-0.4%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (-0.2%),

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[ethan231h]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 3:15pm

Not a good week all around, but that was because of the frigid cold I am assuming.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 3:15pm

Bad week for a lot of shows.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 3:15pm

I was about to say it was a great week, until I read “ DOWN.” Damn.

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 3:59pm

Given the polar vortex, and this being a bad time of year in general, this week was actually pretty good... most shows held pretty steady...

[BritCrit]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 4:30pm

In addition to the extreme cold weather (I read that even Hamilton had to drop ticket prices to fill seats!) I think that the Super Bowl may have had a substantial effect, particularly on musicals with a large teen audience. It is probably no co-incidence that Mean Girls had one of the biggest drops of the week...

[BritCrit]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 4:30pm

In addition to the extreme cold weather (I read that even Hamilton had to drop ticket prices to fill seats!) I think that the Super Bowl may have had a substantial effect, particularly on musicals with a large teen audience. It is probably no co-incidence that Mean Girls had one of the biggest drops of the week...

[BritCrit]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 4:31pm

In addition to the extreme cold weather (I read that even Hamilton had to drop ticket prices to fill seats!) I think that the Super Bowl may have had a substantial effect, particularly on musicals with a large teen audience. It is probably no co-incidence that Mean Girls had one of the biggest drops of the week...

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 4:34pm

Looked at this week for the past few years:

2019- 26M with 9 show over 1M

2018 24M with 9 shows over 1M

2017 19.8M with 6 shows over 1M

2016 23.6M with 7 shows over 1M

I have no idea what the weather was on these weeks, but safe to say it was still a cold winter week.  :)

[JudyDenmark]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 4:35pm

BritCrit said: "In addition to the extreme cold weather (I read that even Hamilton had to drop ticket prices to fill seats!) I think that the Super Bowl may have had a substantial effect, particularly on musicals with a large teen audience. It is probably no co-incidence that Mean Girls had one of the biggest drops of the week..."

...What am I missing that the Super Bowl would have an effect on anything, specifically with a teen audience??

[BritCrit]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 5:02pm

Maybe linking the Super Bowl with reduced revenue on Broadway is a stretch, but I think that there is SOME overlap between the two. Even with the boycotts and poor-quality halftime show, it is still a major television event, and a good proportion of the people watching it stayed with their families instead of going to see Sunday evening shows.

I think I need to look at how much (or little) Broadway earned in other Super Bowl weeks in order to see if there is a correlation between the two (albeit a weak one) or if the Super Bowl has no effect on Broadway whatsoever...

[raddersons]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 5:05pm

I can count on one hand the amount of shows that have Sunday evenings. Most bway theaters are dark from Sunday once the matinee gets out, until Tuesday night.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 5:06pm

If you're on the fence about when to see a show, but your friends/family are having a Super Bowl party, I can see where you'd opt for the party and maybe see a show the weekend before or after instead.

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 5:28pm

It's still Broadway week too (two for 1 tickets.)

Two years ago, I managed to see Dear Evan Hansen thanks to Broadway week discount and when I bought the ticket, the box office agent specifically warned me that it was Superbowl evening and I was of course ok with that! lol.

Overall I think Broadway was ok despite the extreme cold weather. There wasn't any huge snowfalls last week.

[RWPrincess]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 5:57pm

New York weather was ok for the most part last week but it wasn't ok in the Midwest. If people had planned a Broadway week trip, their flights were very likely cancelled due to the polar vortex. The week was also book ended by Rent LIVE and the Super Bowl so while they may not have directly conflicted with shows on Broadway, if watch parties were happening, people would have had to choose between attending a party or attending a show.

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 7:34pm

OKBroadwayFan said: "Looked at this week for the past few years:

2019- 26M with 9 show over 1M

2018 24M with 9 shows over 1M

2017 19.8M with 6 shows over 1M

2016 23.6M with 7 shows over 1M

I have no idea what the weather was on these weeks, but safe to say it was still a cold winter week. :)"

It's really funny how people are trying to come up with specific reasons. Well it's the Super Bowl effect, the Polar Vortex, cancelled flights in the Midwest, people getting ready for Groundhog Day, Maybe it's just January. Happens every year.

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/4/19 at 11:55pm

UncleCharlie said: "It's really funny how people are trying to come up with specific reasons. Well it's the Super Bowl effect, the Polar Vortex, cancelled flights in the Midwest, people getting ready for Groundhog Day, Maybe it's just January. Happens every year."

Nearly everything on your list is specific to this time of year, no?

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/5/19 at 4:22am

haterobics said: "UncleCharlie said: "It's really funny how people are trying to come up with specific reasons. Well it's the Super Bowl effect, the Polar Vortex, cancelled flights in the Midwest, people getting ready for Groundhog Day, Maybe it's just January. Happens every year."

Nearly everything on your list is specific to this time of year, no?"

Cancelled flights and really cold weather can happen anytime between Late November and mid-March. The difference between December and January being people are willing to overcome travel delays and cold weather cause it's fun to be in New York during the holiday season, late January... not so much. As far as Groundhog Day or the Superbowl, pretty sure neither had any effect on Broadway attendance this past week. My point was, January is always slow as the data OKBroadwayFan provided testifies to. This has been discussed on this boards many, many times. Trying to find a specific explanation as to why THIS WEEK was slow is kind of pointless.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/5/19 at 7:56am

Trying to discuss nearly ANYTHING on this weekly thread is meaningless.   

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/5/19 at 8:22am

dramamama611 said: "Trying to discuss nearly ANYTHING on this weekly thread is meaningless."

lol true especially since they don't publish the elusive weekly nugget.

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/5/19 at 9:38am

UncleCharlie said: "Trying to find a specific explanation as to whyTHIS WEEK was slow is kind of pointless."

But that pointless exercise occurs 52 weeks out of the year on here.

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/5/19 at 2:54pm

haterobics said: "UncleCharlie said: "Trying to find a specific explanation as to whyTHIS WEEK was slow is kind of pointless."

But that pointless exercise occurs 52 weeks out of the year on here. "

Not true. I think there were at least 2 or 3 of these threads in the past 52 weeks that had at least some thoughtful analysis. More than that if you are willing to accept "ouch" as thoughtful analysis.

Updated On: 2/5/19 at 02:54 PM