Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/18/19

[Rob]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 3:06pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/18/2019 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: BARRY MANILOW (16.8%), THE CHER SHOW (12.5%), BEAUTIFUL (7.5%), KING KONG (6.9%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (5.4%), TOOTSIE (3.7%), THE LION KING (1.1%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (0.4%), MOULIN ROUGE! (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: WICKED (-8.1%), SEA WALL/A LIFE (-6.5%), ALADDIN (-5.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-3.1%), OKLAHOMA! (-3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.9%), FROZEN (-2.1%), BEETLEJUICE (-0.9%), CHICAGO (-0.9%), WAITRESS (-0.8%), MEAN GIRLS (-0.3%), WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (-0.2%), COME FROM AWAY (-0.1%),

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Sponsored By: The Book of Mormon - The New York Times calls The Book of Mormon "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.

[Sauja]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 4:26pm

Other things spiked because it was their last week, and we already lost a few shows last week, but I do think it's notable that Tootsie had the worst percentage of gross potential this week, the lowest attendance, and one of the lower average prices. Things just aren't looking good for them. I wonder how long the show has. To January if it's lucky?

[FranklinDickson2018]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 4:34pm

Oklahoma! continues its downward trend.  Only doing 63% of gross potential if I am reading it right.  I wonder what their nut is and if this is changing plans to go to January?  Or to tour?  Or maybe too soon to tell.  I remember that "Carousel' pulled up stakes after downward spiral some months early. 

[David10086]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 9:15pm

For it's final week, 'PRETTY WOMAN' did 'pretty terrible'. Yikes! 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 9:20pm

CAROUSEL had a much higher operating cost than Oklahoma!, but these numbers aren't great. The January intentions always seemed far-fetched.

Big drop for BJ. I wonder if this is the beginning of a spiral?

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 9:24pm

How the heck do you read these grosses?! Oof

[ggersten]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 9:34pm

Sauja said: "Other things spiked because it was their last week, and we already lost a few shows last week, but I do think it's notable that Tootsie had the worst percentage of gross potential this week, the lowest attendance, and one of the lower average prices. Things just aren't looking good for them. I wonder how long the show has. To January if it's lucky?"

I know it's really all about the money that comes in, but more people saw Tootsie last week than saw Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, and Hadestown. (Of course, perhaps Tootsie was a second or third choice of people looking for a show to attend - there are just so many potential factors).   This sort of goes in the "that is true; it also is irrelevant" 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 10:14pm

I like that quote, gg. 

Truth be told, this is one of those weeks where nothing really means anything. We've basically hit bottom and now we see where everything heads.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 7:24am

Do we think the Post can report the arguments have now stopped over at the Manilow household?

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 9:31am

devonian.t said: "Do we think the Post can report the arguments have now stopped over at the Manilow household?"

Newspapers never report when people cross the street successfully.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 6:40pm

ggersten said: "Sauja said: "Other things spiked because it was their last week, and we already lost a few shows last week, but I do think it's notable that Tootsie had the worst percentage of gross potential this week, the lowest attendance, and one of the lower average prices. Things just aren't looking good for them. I wonder how long the show has. To January if it's lucky?"

I know it's really all about the money that comes in, but more people saw Tootsie last week than saw Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, and Hadestown. (Of course, perhaps Tootsie was a second or third choice of people looking for a show to attend - there are just so many potential factors). This sort of goes in the "that is true; it also is irrelevant""

 

It was also in a huge theatre, with lots of rush tickets sold, as well as TKTS and other discounted seats. So, on week-end performances, albeit heavily discounted, it is clearly going to exceed those shows' attendance, all of which were sold out, which meant that there were no remaining seats to sell.  Big difference.