Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/12/19

[Rob]

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/12/2019 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: FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (68.5%), TOOTSIE (5.4%), WAITRESS (4.5%), THE PROM (2.8%), THE FERRYMAN (2.1%), THE CHER SHOW (2%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (1.7%), BURN THIS (1.6%), KING LEAR (1.5%), KISS ME, KATE (1.3%), AIN'T TOO PROUD (1.1%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.5%), ALL MY SONS (0.4%), KING KONG (0.2%), COME FROM AWAY (0.2%), BEAUTIFUL (0.2%), HILLARY AND CLINTON (0.1%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-12.2%), CHICAGO (-7.5%), BEETLEJUICE (-4.4%), GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS (-4.4%), FROZEN (-3.7%), WICKED (-2.9%), ALADDIN (-2.6%), INK (-2.4%), MEAN GIRLS (-1.6%), BE MORE CHILL (-1.5%), MY FAIR LADY (-1.2%), OKLAHOMA! (-1.1%), WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (-0.9%), NETWORK (-0.7%), THE LION KING (-0.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%),

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[TFMH18]

Those Constitution numbers, I seriously cannot get over them. Also do we think Be More Chill will even make it to the Tonys? Yikes. 

[goldenstate5]

Improvement for Tootsie, which is nice.

Summer can't come quick enough for Be More Chill. It's now in the bottom five, boy is it smarting. My guess is that the producers are keen to wait it out.

[BritCrit]

Same story as last week. Great Week for Tootsie, Hadestown and Ain’t Too Proud, terrible week for most of the “medium run” musicals...

[Wick3]

Ouch for Frankie and Johnny --- 27.4% gross potential. I'm guessing the producers overpriced the face value of seats at the Broadhurst. 

Be More Chill's weekly nut is around $500k/week so having $407k gross this week hurts. Numbers will hopefully increase once summer starts. 

Very happy to see PROM increase its grosses! Hopefully this will start another momentum that will last through the summer.

[YvanEhtNioj]

A nice growth fro beetlejuice, but I dont know how long it'll survive with only pulling in 60%.

I kinda feel like it may be time for Beautiful to bow out gracefully. 

[LightsOut90]

Be More Chill is done, even if it has a good summer, come september its going to crash again. 

Constitution is absolutely the story of the Spring, those grosses are fantastic. 

[YvanEhtNioj]

Prom aint looking too hot either. 

[MadsonMelo]

I can't get over Mean Girls' numbers. Why?

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Wick3 said: "Ouch for Frankie and Johnny --- 27.4% gross potential. I'm guessing the producers overpriced the face value of seats at the Broadhurst.

I don't know how plays typically fair during previews. Is this unusually poor? I do know that reviews are much more important to plays than to musicals, so I assume things will pick up substantially once the reviews, which I think will be mostly raves, are published.

[SomethingPeculiar]

Kiss Me Kate's numbers are astonishingly good, for a show that's not in the top-tier of beloved musicals and with a star who previously had trouble selling tickets. Roundabout's best numbers since Cabaret, I think? Even better than Mark Ruffalo and Danny DeVito. Actually, this seems like a pretty good year in general for Roundabout, between True West, All My Sons (which was up $60K), and KMK.

Frankie & Johnny will be a major test: Can Audra tell tickets when she's not singing? Her last nonmusical play was in 2004. That's a weak start.

Be More Chill should have a little money in the coffers from better weeks, and their reserve probably isn't fully depleted yet. But those numbers are baaaad and won't be sustainable for long. I predict that they will pony up the big bucks to perform on the Tonys, they won't see a big return from the TV performance, and they'll post closing within 2 weeks of the Awards. (Same with The Prom.)

[BroadwayRox3588]

"Let's save the pitiful grosses! Woooooooaaaaah! Let's save the pitiful grosses!"

[YvanEhtNioj]

BroadwayRox3588 said: ""Let's save the pitiful grosses! Woooooooaaaaah! Let's save the pitiful grosses!""

HAHHAHAAH

[YvanEhtNioj]

BroadwayRox3588 said: ""Let's save the pitiful grosses! Woooooooaaaaah! Let's save the pitiful grosses!""

HAHHAHAAH

[Sauja]

I get that The Prom is holding out for the Tonys and (maybe) the Ryan Murphy Netflix production. And maybe Be More Chill is holding on in the hopes that their numbers will boost when kids are on summer vacation. But real question: can anyone guess why King Kong hasn't pulled the plug? They must be atrophying money, no?

[n2nbaby]

I knew Frankie and Johnny was selling poorly but owch.. that is rough.

[Mike66]

Sauja said: "I get that The Prom is holding out for the Tonys and (maybe) the Ryan Murphy Netflix production. And maybe Be More Chill is holding on in the hopes that their numbers will boost when kids are on summer vacation. But real question: can anyone guess why King Kong hasn't pulled the plug? They must be atrophying money, no?"

I'll bet they think it would be embarrassing to close before their awards are received at the Tonys.  "Thanks for the honor, we closed last week" would be too too tacky.

  They'll post the closing the end of that week.

[poisonivy2]

I don't see MFL extending beyond July. The numbers are just not good and the Vivian Beaumont Theatre is a large theater. 

[BroadwayGuy12]

poisonivy2 said: "I don't see MFL extending beyond July. The numbers are just not good and the Vivian Beaumont Theatre is a large theater."

I'm not saying the show won't close this summer, but tickets are currently on sale through November 10. So, technically, it's already extended.

[LightsOut90]

Im not even sure now that Be More Chill will make it through the summer, they just announced a big summer ticket sale, never a good sign

[massofmen]

YvanEhtNioj said: "A nice growth fro beetlejuice, but I dont know how long it'll survive with only pulling in 60%.

I kinda feel like it may be time for Beautiful to bow out gracefully."

BJ is actually getting its avg tix sale up..which is good...te issue is they aren't selling a ton of tix. 
That tony number better be amazing or it will close by labor day

[quizking101]

LightsOut90 said: "Im not even sure now that Be More Chill will make it through the summer, they just announced a big summer ticket sale, never a good sign"

Considering how often it’s been on TDF and now this, I feel like a dips#!t for going to see this in previews

 

[7thbighero]

Even if a show is on sale until a certain date, it can still close before then. At this point for MFL, it depends on their advance, but i think a July closing isn’t unrealistic.  

[EvanstonDad]

Can I be the first one to propose that we don't use BJ as an abbreviation for Beetlejuice? Might avoid a lot of confusion. 

[LuPita2]

Considering this isn't a sex site or hook up app, abbreviating a show is just fine.