Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/24/22

[Rob]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 12:45pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/24/2022 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: THE MINUTES (16.8%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (13.1%), TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (6.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (5.5%), POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM AL (5.3%), CHICAGO (5.1%), COMPANY (4.9%), ALADDIN (4.5%), COME FROM AWAY (3.9%), MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (3.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (3.5%), WICKED (3.4%), BEETLEJUICE (1.7%), HADESTOWN (1.7%), THE LION KING (0.8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (0.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A STRANGE LOOP (-2%), THE KITE RUNNER (-1.9%), INTO THE WOODS (-1.8%), FUNNY GIRL (-0.6%), SIX (-0.4%), HAMILTON (-0.1%),

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[OhHiii]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 12:50pm

Company's highest gross to date. So glad this production is going out on such a high. Can't wait for the final performance.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 12:59pm

Looks like the Stranger Things hype train extended to Dear Evan Hansen with Gaten Matarazzo joining the cast.

Great showing for Company.

Hadestown and A Strange Loop looking a little soft.

[quizking101]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:15pm

I wouldn’t say ASL is “looking soft” at all. 

It’s selling 89% of its seats in one of the smallest houses on Broadway and sitting on a comfortable $750K gross. One of the benefits of this show is the dynamic seating prices where the obstructed view seats are actually cheaper, and it’s getting people into the theatre to see a show they may not otherwise go see at a three-digit price point. They are likely surpassing their weekly nut.

If anything is looking really shaky, it’s FUNNY GIRL. It’s already limping to the end of Beanie’s run, so I can’t imagine how much they will lose when Julie is on for five weeks (which is sad because she’s great). I know the producers there are gonna gamble the losses with the hope that Lea Michele will rebound them in the fall, but we shall see how that goes

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:19pm

I think the numbers for A Strange Loop are telling. It’s doing fine now, but it is also running on the high of winning Best Musical. It should be selling out, it isn’t. It’s making money now but I don’t foresee it making money in the fall/winter months. 

[binau]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:20pm

For a recent best musical winner I would agree ASL is looking soft. Hopefully they can last long enough to turn a profit but it doesn’t look like the momentum will be there to have a very long run (also recognise it’s rather premature to call this now, but I’ll call it)

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:24pm

If hadestown is going to stunt cast Hermes, they better do it now

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:27pm

ASL was always going to be appealing to a niche audience. 750k is a totally solid gross for that show if they can sustain it, assuming it costs 500-600k to run per week. Does that mean it will recoup 100%? Too early to say. It cost up to $9.5M, which is pretty standard for a small musical. But this was always a major gamble from the start.

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:29pm

I don't see A Strange Loop running too long. It's just an extraordinarily difficult show to identify a commercial audience for. It's clearly starting to exhaust its built-in initial audience of Broadway fans and Tony followers, but once they/we've all seen it, I don't know who else is going to.

Also, so thrilled that Company is crushing it in its final weeks, and that Into the Woods is doing so massively well. 

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 1:40pm

I think that the lede has been buried a bit this week cause I think the most surprising number is the almost $900,000 grossed by DEH. Sure, it announced a Sept 18 closing but so what? Other shows that have announced closings that a more imminent didn't show this type of uptick.

DEH out grossed Funny Girl and Hadestown for goodness sake. 

I really think that the film hurt the show tremendously, both on Broadway and on tour. 

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 2:01pm

RaisedOnMusicals said: "I think that the lede has been buried a bit this week cause I think the most surprising number is the almost $900,000 grossed by DEH. Sure, it announced a Sept 18 closing but so what? Other shows that have announced closings that a more imminent didn't show this type of uptick.

DEH out grossed Funny Girl and Hadestown for goodness sake.

I really think that the film hurt the show tremendously, both on Broadway and on tour."

It's not the closing announcement, which was quite awhile ago, it's Gaten Matarazzo joining the cast. The Stranger Things phenomenon is a real thing especially for the audience that would already be inclined to attend Dear Evan Hansen.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 2:03pm

quizking101 said: "I wouldn’t say ASL is “looking soft” at all.

It’s selling 89% of its seats in one of the smallest houses on Broadway and sitting on a comfortable $750K gross. One of the benefits of this show is the dynamic seating prices where the obstructed view seats are actually cheaper, and it’s getting people into the theatre to see a show they may not otherwise go see at a three-digit price point. They are likely surpassing their weekly nut.

If anything is looking really shaky, it’s FUNNY GIRL. It’s already limping to the end of Beanie’s run, so I can’t imagine how much they will lose when Julie is on for five weeks (which is sad because she’s great). I know the producers there are gonna gamble the losses with the hope that Lea Michele will rebound them in the fall, but we shall see how that goes"

89% less than two months after a Tony win for Best Musical does indeed seem soft to me. As does the slight but mostly steady declines since it's peak of $860K at the end of June.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 2:15pm

Thanks. Interesting. 

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 2:19pm

This week's grosses really piqued my curiosity, so I wanted to look at how A Strange Loop is doing in terms of concrete sales compared to its predecessors that won Best Musical over the last few years. I decided to take a peek at what grosses looked like in the final performance week for the month of July in the year that each show won Best Musical.

I skipped over Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen since I don't think they're on the same commercial scale and scope as ASL, and I also overlooked Moulin Rouge! and the weirdness of 2020/2021, for obvious reasons.

So, I decided to look at Hadestown, The Band's Visit, and Fun Home, which I think are all worth comparing to ASL. Here's what I aggregated:

2022 - A Strange Loop | Week ending July 24, 2022
Gross: $748,234
Average ticket: $115.11
Top ticket: $373.00
Capacity: 7,296 / Attendance: 6,500
Capacity Filled: 89.09%

2019 - Hadestown | Week ending July 28, 2019
Gross: $1,344,593
Average ticket: $180.60
Top ticket: $449.00
Capacity: 7,344 / Attendance: 7,445
Capacity Filled: 101.38%

2018 - The Band’s Visit | Week ending July 29, 2018
Gross: $1,057,782
Average ticket: $127.26
Top ticket: $297.00
Capacity: 8,312 / Attendance: 8,312
Capacity Filled: 100.00%

2015 - Fun Home | Week ending July 26, 2015
Gross: $805,369
Average ticket: $131.92
Top ticket: $300.00
Capacity: 5,920 / Attendance: 6,105
Capacity Filled: 103.13%

So, in the last week of July in the year that each show won Best Musical, every Best Musical winner has been in the million-dollar club—with the exceptions of Fun Home and A Strange Loop. However, it's noteworthy that Fun Home still performed to an SRO house (Circle in the Square has 840 seats) at a 103.13% capacity, while A Strange Loop didn't even sell 90% of the 922-seat Lyceum.

Also noteworthy that even though Fun Home had a comparably lower attendance to ASL by nearly 400 people, it still ended up grossing nearly $60k more than ASL in comparison.  

Calling this week's numbers "soft" seems very apt to me.

Updated On: 7/26/22 at 02:19 PM

[OhHiii]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 2:30pm

Into The Woods numbers with Sara having missed several shows last week kind of disproves the naysayers who were insisting the show couldn't survive without her.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 3:31pm

True. I guess it's just good timing and a good ensemble cast? I mean, there's nothing to note about the production other than the cast, correct? So that's good for them moving forward. 

I mean, A Strange Loop was always going to be a hard sell, so the fact that it's making money is still promising. 

[willep]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 4:28pm

OhHiii said: "Into The Woods numbers with Sara having missed several shows last week kind of disproves the naysayers who were insisting the show couldn't survive without her."

I think there’s a bit of a difference between a few days of not anticipated absences and a run without her. 

[David10086]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 5:31pm

So now that our usual targets for 2022 have either closed, or announced a closing  -  "Tina", "POTUS", "Paradise Square", "Girl From the North Country", "DEH', "CFA", "Company"  -  I guess it's fair to say our new target is  A STRANGE LOOP ,  as we ask the inevitable :  'how long can this show keep running'  ? 

 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 6:05pm

These 'Into The Woods' numbers are fantastic....$$$$$$$$

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 6:19pm

Nice bump for The Minutes in its final week as well

[CreatureKitchen]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 7:31pm

ElephantLoveMedley said: "Also noteworthy that even thoughFun Homehad a comparably lower attendance toASL by nearly 400 people, it still ended up grossing nearly $60k more thanASLin comparison.

Calling this week's numbers "soft" seems very apt to me."

Thanks for this research, it's super interesting! I wonder how Fun Home's running costs compared to A Strange Loop's. They both have mechanized set pieces, but Fun Home seems to have a somewhat more complex set, plus the costs associated with multiple child actors. 

 

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 7:32pm

David10086 said: "So now that our usual targets for 2022 have either closed, or announced a closing - "Tina", "POTUS", "Paradise Square", "Girl From the North Country", "DEH', "CFA", "Company" - I guess it's fair to say our new target is A STRANGE LOOP , as we ask the inevitable : 'how long can this show keep running

"

Nobody is “making a target.” We are discussing the grosses, comparing the numbers to other recent Tony Award winners. It is a thread for grosses where we, ya know, discuss grosses.

[Sauja]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 7:58pm

Listen. I’m a huge fan of A Strange Loop. I’ve see. It three times and plan to go back. But the conversation about whether the show has legs is warranted. It should be doing better than it is this close to the Tony win. That it’s not selling out right now suggests that it won’t have a run as long as Fun Home or The Band’s Visit. Saying that isn’t cruel, and it doesn’t imply gleeful anticipation of a closing notice; it’s just a realistic prognostication. I wish it the best. I hope word of mouth gets more butts in seats. It’s a deeply special show. My favorite new musical in years. But yeah. The numbers look a little soft. 

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 8:17pm

I think we all knew ASL wouldn't last more than ''Fun Home'' or ''The Band's Visit'', both of these shows lasted something like one year and five months, that would put ''ASL'' to last, at least, around September 2023, but I'm praying it will be here until the next Tonys, it surely will be difficult. Does the show cost that much to run, tho? A 600k nut for a small house like that doesn't feel right.

Also, is safe to assume ''Hadestown'' has recouped yet?

A question: by August 14, I guess, there will only be 2 plays on Broadway. Is this some kind of record or is a usual thing that I never notice in the august months?

[suzycat]

Posted: 7/26/22 at 8:44pm

In fairness, one major difference between ASL and the other Tony winners is that ASL is performing during a global pandemic.