Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/13/22

[Rob]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 2:13pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/13/2022 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 (% of capacity) was: MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN & THE POOL (18.8%), INTO THE WOODS (14.3%), CHICAGO (11.3%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (9.7%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (8.7%), HAMILTON (8.5%), LEOPOLDSTADT (8.4%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (8%), BEETLEJUICE (7.9%), A STRANGE LOOP (7.8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (6.4%), SIX (6%), HADESTOWN (5.3%), KPOP (5.1%), THE PIANO LESSON (4.9%), ALADDIN (4.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (4.4%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (3.3%), THE MUSIC MAN (2.8%), 1776 (2.3%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (2%), ALMOST FAMOUS (1.4%), WALKING WITH GHOSTS (1.3%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (0.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE LION KING (-1%), FUNNY GIRL (-0.9%), TAKE ME OUT (-0.3%),

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An earlier bug caused a reporting error for WICKED - now fixed!

Updated On: 11/15/22 at 02:13 PM

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 2:19pm

Kimberly Akimbo showing a box office, average ticket, and attendance increase week over week is exactly the kind of business they should be doing to become the little show that could. I love to see it. Time will obviously tell, but it should start putting some of the naysayers around the board at bay.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 2:30pm

Yep, hopefully it will shut them up, especially if they didn't see the show. Good bump for several shows as the holidays arrive including Almost Famous which has gone up steadily in the past few weeks despite many posters wanting it to close. Whoops! 

Updated On: 11/15/22 at 02:30 PM

[InTheBathroom1]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 3:06pm

Ain’t No Mo at an avg ticket price of $26. Woof

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 3:16pm

Not that I want any shows to close, but most (if not all) of these shows are receiving a holiday-season bump through the New Year. 

Thus, I'm afraid KPOP, Hadestown, and maybe Almost Famous will all shutter by mid-January. Kimberly Akimbo is up in the air — I'm not counting it out yet because they have 1) a savvy lead producer in David Stone willing to keep this thing open as long as possible, and 2) incredibly strong reviews from last Thursday plus very early awards season buzz. Their numbers could indicate the start of a rebound to last well past New Year's Day... or it could just be the aforementioned holiday-season bump with tix sales plummeting in January.

 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 3:34pm

I am surprised at the lack of interest in SLIH.  Better get really good reviews.  Happy to see KA grosses slowly rising.  Would imagine they have a pretty low breakeven.  

If Phantom really closes so they can reopen with a cheaper production, shame on them.  How much $$ have both of them made on it.  I would have thought ALW in particular would want it to continue running forever.  At this point, Lion King and Wicked are both doing better than Phantom was doing at this point in their runs; so it is conceivable, particularly with Lion King, that Phantom's all-time performance record could be broken in a decade.  Obviously a lot can happen, but Phantom has been at TKTS for at least 15 years (and I would bet even more), and Lion King in particular has never been at TKTS, and it is stil doing incredible business.  (Wish I liked it more).

Glad to see that at least Leopoldstadt and Piano Lesson are doing so well, the latter certainly due to star casting.

[dearalanaaaa]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 3:47pm

choose your fighter:

- KPop, $37 average ticket price with polarizing reviews and a rumor that it will close by December, reasonable capacity, but word of mouth treats it as entertainment because of how terrible the book is

- A Christmas Carol, $21 ticket price but best capacity out of the bottom 3, has promising reviews but people keep leaving in the middle of the show… One man show

- Ain’t No Mo, $27 ticket price, papered into oblivion, but it’s a limited run, hilarious (a bit too new for reviews), and things could improve once positive or otherwise word of mouth begins to spread.

Can’t imagine how the investors for these three are feeling right now, especially because i really liked ain’t no mo. Hope things look up for these shows

[Bill Snibson]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 3:55pm

K-Pop looks like it is on life support.  Looks like a weird week with no rhyme or reason. Happy to see AF getting their numbers up and a significant leap this week for ITW. Is that because of Marathon overflow? I was expecting KA to be pulling in a bigger weekly. Maybe next week will show a bigger increase ofr that show specifically considering the raves. A Beautiful Noise has been the sleeper musical of the season.  Literally no-one talking about it and yet it pulled in over $1M. Wow!

[Jarethan]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 4:01pm

Re A Beautiful Noise, unless it has changed since Boston, it will run down its advance and slowly die, just like some of the other juke-box musicals.  It is a thoroughly mediocre show.

[barcelona20]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 4:08pm

I'm surprised at Some Like It Hot as well. Given the team behind it and the mostly positive early word of mouth, I thought it would be selling a little better at this point.  We shall see what effect the reviews have.

[JanMaxwellsBag]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 4:12pm

Multiple people have referred to A Beautiful Noise as a “sleeper hit” but I don’t think that’s the correct term. 

A sleeper hit would be something like Kimberly Akimbo starting out like it has and then by Tony time having doubled it’s grosses (and by god I would LOVE it if this happened). 

Shows like A Beautiful  Noise and &Juliet have had fantastic grosses right out the gate. Ain’t nothing sleepy about it. 

Updated On: 11/15/22 at 04:12 PM

[Bill Snibson]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 4:20pm

I'm definitely guilty of calling it a "sleeper hit". I suppose I should re-phrase that as more of a "surprise hit".  Comparing it with the other new musicals opening rn it is really churning out great numbers.  I guess I'm not the target audience because I haven't seen a hint of advertising but I know what I'll be getting my parents for Christmas. 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 5:07pm

Neil Diamond is dong great. 

I forgot what a huge superstar he is. 

What's going on with Some Like It Hot? I assumed the title alone would make the show a hit. 

[RUkiddingme]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 5:36pm

Thought #1 - Summer had great grosses the first month

Thought #2 - Kimberly Akimbo will be running through June and longer after it wins their Tonys.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is crazy.

 

[Collingswood]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 5:54pm

Bill Snibson said: "K-Pop looks like it is on life support. Looks like a weird week with no rhyme or reason. Happy to see AF getting their numbers up and a significant leap this week for ITW. Is that because of Marathon overflow? I was expecting KA to be pulling in a bigger weekly. Maybe next week will show a bigger increase ofr that show specifically considering the raves. A Beautiful Noise has been the sleeper musical of the season. Literally no-one talking about it and yet it pulled in over $1M. Wow!"

KA is slowly going up but keep in mind the opening on 11-10, those are all comped tickets for the most part.

[Phillytheatreguy10]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 5:59pm

Also of note, Beautiful Noise has no discount codes I’m aware of at the moment- I know because I was looking at getting them as Christmas presents for someone and the pricing quickly turned me off. 

[Bill Snibson]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 6:04pm

RUkiddingme said: "Thought #1 - Summer had great grosses the first month

Thought #2 - Kimberly Akimbo will be running through June and longer after it wins their Tonys. Anyone who thinks otherwise is crazy.

"

The producers need to be prepared to ride out the leanest months until the nominations and even those don't guarantee dollars. The market is very tricky right now, as far as building any kind of advance. Almost every show is victim to day-of or week of sales with very few people purchasing tickets months in advance.  It's near impossible to figure out a shows trajectory because of this. 

[JanMaxwellsBag]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 6:15pm

I enjoy reading Deadline’s reporting of the grosses each week. It’s a concise report and always points out notable things. It seems MJ has broken another house record at the Neil Simon. I imagine it will do that several more times before the year is out. 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 6:41pm

A Beautiful Noise may not be an amazing show, but despite what some asserted here when the show was announced, Diamond has a huge fan base.  I imagine it will be do pretty well for awhile.

[RUkiddingme]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 6:50pm

Thought # 3 - Shows keep raising prices thus records keep getting broken.  All the broken records the past year don't indicate anything about the popularity of a show.  They are a reflection of higher prices.

 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 7:16pm

Phillytheatreguy10 said: "Also of note, Beautiful Noise has no discount codes I’m aware of at the moment- I know because I was looking at getting them as Christmas presents for someone and the pricing quickly turned me off."

SOGOOD on Telecharge Offers.

[JanMaxwellsBag]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 7:17pm

RUkiddingme said: "Thought # 3 - Shows keep raising prices thus records keep getting broken. All the broken records the past year don't indicate anything about the popularity of a show. They are a reflection of higher prices.

"

I’m inclined to agree with this, but I think in the case of MJ it is also an extremely popular show. It’s been running for just shy of a year and it’s already the 6th most attended show in the Neil Simon’s history. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 7:35pm

Phillytheatreguy10 said: "Also of note, Beautiful Noise has no discount codes I’m aware of at the moment- I know because I was looking at getting them as Christmas presents for someone and the pricing quickly turned me off."

A Beautiful Noise has a 30% code that is every limited in its usage. Essentially invalid most of December.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 9:07pm

1. You can't raise prices to break house records if you aren't selling tickets.

2. Early weeks and holiday weeks (and also diluted weeks) can be misleading. 

3. The outlook for most of these shows is very soft. 

4. Covid is still a factor in cancellations it seems. You would think KPOP would be prepared but I guess not and they really cannot afford it. 

5. I never thought I would see some of these average ticket prices again in my life. And I am seeing a lot of them. 

6. Jeff Mays is astonishing but a show with that title is not going to sell itself (which is what's being asked) before Thanksgiving. Go see it now.

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 11/15/22 at 11:00pm

Sutton Ross said: "Yep, hopefully it will shut them up, especially if they didn't see the show. Good bump for several shows as the holidays arrive including Almost Famous which has gone up steadily in the past few weeks despite many posters wanting it to close. Whoops!"

Respectfully since that first line was absolutely aimed at me, why don't you shut up, because believe me I'm not going to 

If people don't want to face the reality of what the seating charts are showing thats on you Kimberly is not going to survive on day of walk up sales and having advance sales a few weeks out at a time and is not scaling at the rate it needs to, the average ticket price is $84 even if the capacity is 100% that is 100% of people paying a third of what the top ticket price is on average, with a comped opening night they sold just over 80% of their seats last week and you could even buy tickets for opening night up until an hour before the show. This show has also yet to hit its nut once (which for the record is $500,000 believe it or not) 
 

The week of Christmas the mezzanine is barely sold, this is one of the best weeks of the year and there are more unsold seats then sold, that is a fact and a reality, regardless of reviews, and peoples love for it (myself included) this show has a huge uphill battle to make it to the TONYs and Jesse Green's review even said as much

And because people think I have some axe to grand against it let me be clear this is an across the board issue, there is too much supply and not enough demand and potentially a dozen shows are going to post early notices in the next few weeks because the audiences are not there, I mean yes its only three performances but Ohio State Murders is playing to 50% with Audra McDonald? A production of A Christmas Carol which should be a easy sell has a average price of $21? Take Me Out which just won Best Play not even six months ago is playing to half empty houses?

People can fool themselves all they want but Broadway is in a bad state