Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 3:29pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/15/2019 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: DERREN BROWN: SECRET (13.6%), TOOTSIE (11.2%), BEETLEJUICE (8.9%), BEAUTIFUL (8.4%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (8.3%), OKLAHOMA! (7.3%), THE LION KING (7.2%), CHICAGO (5.5%), ALADDIN (4.6%), MEAN GIRLS (4.1%), SEA WALL/A LIFE (3.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (2.8%), FROZEN (2.4%), COME FROM AWAY (1.3%), AIN'T TOO PROUD (0.8%), WAITRESS (0.8%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.6%), WICKED (0.3%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (0.2%), MOULIN ROUGE! (0.1%), HADESTOWN (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE GREAT SOCIETY (-12%), BETRAYAL (-1%), HAMILTON (-0.3%),
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BritCrit
Leading Actor Joined: 5/15/18
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 3:36pmTootsie’s jump in earnings is quite a surprise, even with the 2 for 1 promos leading to attendance rises across the board. I’m pleased that these promos led to good attendance for Derren Brown despite low % gross. Hopefully the word of mouth will help him...
barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 3:38pm
Freestyle Love Supreme with impressive average ticket prices.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 3:58pm
haterobics said: "Ouch, Hamilton!"
Heard it's closing at the end of the year. Can't have much longer... 
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Bill Snibson
Broadway Star Joined: 9/1/19
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:00pmHamilton’s numbers are so insane. MR! is holding strong maintaining the #2 spot for the past few weeks. What else is coming in this season to rival that? 🤷🏻♂️
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Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:05pm
Bill Snibson said: "Hamilton’s numbers are so insane. MR! is holding strong maintaining the #2 spot for the past few weeks. What else is coming in this season to rival that? ??♂️"
Nothing this season. Everything will be a bargain this season compared to what the MUSIC MAN is charging the following season. Gonna make HAMILTON tickets look cheap.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Bill Snibson
Broadway Star Joined: 9/1/19
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:09pmCouldn’t agree more. Music Man will be the toughest ticket and those grosses should be fun to watch. The NYT spread this Sunday was sooo very Scott Rudin. He seems to be the master of marketing.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:19pm
Bill Snibson said: "Couldn’t agree more. Music Man will be the toughest ticket and those grosses should be fun to watch. The NYT spread this Sunday was sooo very Scott Rudin. He seems to be the master of marketing."
Even if the ticket prices are obscene. I am hoping that it will open in the Shubert (TKAM will be almost 2 years at that point, so a move to a little smaller theatre, e.g., the Broadhurst, might be appropriate by that time), where there may be reasonable second balcony seats, although I am guessing that the front of the balcony will go for $150.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:46pm
Harry Potter's numbers continue to boggle me. Really wonder what the show's future will be.
barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 4:47pm
ACL2006 said: "Bill Snibson said: "Hamilton’s numbers are so insane. MR! is holding strong maintaining the #2 spot for the past few weeks. What else is coming in this season to rival that? ??♂️"
Nothing this season. Everything will be a bargain this season compared to what the MUSIC MAN is charging the following season. Gonna make HAMILTON tickets look cheap."
I just don't understand the desire of people willing to pay big bucks for a revival of Music Man. Hello Dolly made sense to me, but this, I just don't understand.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:11pm
Happy to see Tootsie's numbers this week.
Still wonder how much longer Mean Girls has.
Looks like Slave Play did comp a lot this week but I think once it opens and gets raves, it'll sell better.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Bill Snibson
Broadway Star Joined: 9/1/19
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:22pm
little_sally said: "Happy to see Tootsie's numbers this week.
Still wonder how much longer Mean Girls has.
Looks like Slave Play did comp a lot this week but I think once it opens and gets raves, it'll sell better."
I think Mean Girls ebbs and flows with the school calendar tbh and still has some legs. I’ll be curious to see how the Slave Play reviews turn ticket sales around. It seems rather polarizing and a bit of a tough sell to me.
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Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:36pm
barcelona20 said: "ACL2006 said: "Bill Snibson said: "Hamilton’s numbers are so insane. MR! is holding strong maintaining the #2 spot for the past few weeks. What else is coming in this season to rival that? ??♂️"
Nothing this season. Everything will be a bargain this season compared to what the MUSIC MAN is charging the following season. Gonna make HAMILTON tickets look cheap."
I just don't understand the desire of people willing to pay big bucks for a revival of Music Man. Hello Dolly made sense to me, but this, I just don't understand."
I would say about 0 people have bought tickets to see the Music Man. They have bought them to see Hugh Jackman in a musical that happens to be the music man.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Fredrich Yeager
Understudy Joined: 4/14/19
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:41pm
Really surprised by Tootsie's numbers. I absolutely love the show, but I thought it was as good as dead after labor day with downward trends. What happened that caused such a boost? I know their cast album signing was on Tuesday, but I'd be surprised if that had such a boost in sales considering those sorts of things tend to target people who already know about the show.
I'm also surprised Come From Away didn't do better (I mean they still did good) considering it was the week of 9/11. I thought they'd at least hit their gross potential.
angoradebs
Featured Actor Joined: 6/1/18
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:43pm
Just curious - how can a show go above 100% of its gross potential without going over its capacity? Looking at Cursed Child, which was at exactly 100% capacity but earned 101.07% of its potential gross. Where did that 1.07% come from? Only thing I can think of is unclaimed Friday Forty tickets that then get sold above their $40 price, but I wasn't sure if I was missing something.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 5:50pm
angoradebs said: "Just curious - how can a show go above 100% of its gross potential without going over its capacity? Looking at Cursed Child, which was at exactly 100% capacity but earned 101.07% of its potential gross. Where did that 1.07% come from? Only thing I can think of is unclaimed Friday Forty tickets that then get sold above their $40 price, but I wasn't sure if I was missing something."
IIRC, it's that the up-charge for Premium seats are not included in the potential gross. So when a show sells out, it's the Premium prices that drive the gross over 100% of its potential. I'm not sure why they don't include premium prices in the gross potential though - someone else will have to explain that.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 6:01pm
I agree with JBroadway. It's the premium ticket sales that drive up the potential gross.
I'm curious what the future of Harry Potter will be. While Original Broadway cast was there, it would gross $2 million weekly; nowadays it seems to hover above a $1 million each week.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 6:12pm
qolbinau said: "I would say about 0 people have bought tickets to see the Music Man. They have bought them to see Hugh Jackman in a musical thathappens to be the music man."
I agree on this. Plus if the USA goes into recession next year, at least Music Man (starring Jackman) already has a healthy advance.
MadsonMelo
Broadway Star Joined: 3/24/14
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 7:45pm
Funny to see Tootsie making more money than Beetlejuice lol
those numbers for Frozen... hmm.
kade.ivy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/13
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 8:54pmCan I ask what the concern over Potter is, with it grossing over $1 mil per week? I do see that their prices are lower than they were a year ago and the average ticket price is in the lower range. Are those the reasons for concern?
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 9:19pm
I think people just expected Potter to be a Hamilton-style monster it, and it seems to have fallen into the comfortable long-runner status quite quickly. I mean there were a bunch of $40 seats available for this week.
kade.ivy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/13
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/15/19
Posted: 9/16/19 at 9:59pm
RippedMan said: "I think people just expected Potter to be a Hamilton-style monster it, and it seems to have fallen into the comfortable long-runner status quite quickly. I mean there were a bunch of $40 seats available for this week."
I see; thanks for the reply. Yes, I do see that tickets are not very difficult to get, and there are $40 orchestra seats for this Wednesday. Two parts is a big commitment, and it certainly hasn’t had the pop culture phenomenon status that Ham has had.
