Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/11/22

[Rob]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 2:52pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/11/2022 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: KPOP (28.5%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (25.9%), OHIO STATE MURDERS (18.8%), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (14.7%), 1776 (13.1%), CHICAGO (10.4%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (8.7%), BEETLEJUICE (6.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (6.4%), & JULIET (5.9%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (5.7%), A STRANGE LOOP (5.7%), HAMILTON (5.5%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (5.3%), THE PIANO LESSON (4.9%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (4%), ALADDIN (3.9%), THE LION KING (3.8%), HADESTOWN (3.5%), INTO THE WOODS (3.4%), WICKED (3.3%), THE MUSIC MAN (2.7%), ALMOST FAMOUS (1.5%), TAKE ME OUT (1.4%), MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN & THE POOL (1%), FUNNY GIRL (1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.9%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: AIN'T NO MO' (-22.4%), BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY (-7.8%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (-4.4%), THE COLLABORATION (-3.4%), LEOPOLDSTADT (-0.2%),

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[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:11pm

Not saying that a week of sold-out performances at full price would have saved them, but I do think it’s interesting that for all the talk about not supporting specific shows, everyone seems to have gone out and gotten as discounted a ticket for K-POP as they possibly could in its final week. It would have been interesting to see how much money it could pull in at capacity.

Also that capacity for Ain’t No Mo’. Yikes. Even steeply discounted and papered, they can’t fill the house. Surprised they’re even going to bother limping along this week.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:15pm

Seems like a great week all around! Amazing to see! 

Kimberly Akimbo continues to do better every week. It stands in such stark contrast to KPOP and Aint No Mo as an example of what happens when producers budget properly and are able to have faith in their show and let the word-of-mouth spread and marketing work. 

EDIT: Don't want to make it seem like I am saying that these 3 shows are exactly the same or that Kimberly Akimbo hasn't always been in a much better place than the other two. But, it is interesting to note that there was a potential for a similar situation for Akimbo that has seemingly been averted. 

Speaking of KPOP, I know it was a snap closing, but it does say a lot to me that despite a seemingly high amount of energy around the show, it only did $160,000 better this week. It was supposedly at 100% capacity, but even the people most excited about the show and desperate to catch it before it closed weren't willing to pay full price for it. 

Updated On: 12/13/22 at 03:15 PM

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:15pm

I am really surprised Common isn't a bigger draw for Riverside.

[pethian]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:20pm

Stunned by the BEAUTIFUL NOISE $1.4M million-plus. And on a week with a whole lot of comping for press.

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:20pm

Based on recent plays, even celebrities haven't been enough to really draw audiences in unless they're absolute A list (and Common isn't even top billed).  I've been surprised that The Collaboration hasn't drawn as much of the Marvel crowd though.

To be fair, I think KPOP did also comp a lot of tickets for the AAPI community, and I assume friends and family as well.  I thought it was interesting that both KPOP and Ain't No Mo' are closing before the Christmas/New Year week though, like do they not think they would get a larger audience during that time with the influx of tourists and everything?  (Though I guess Ain't No Mo' isn't exactly your family friendly tourist fare). I wonder if both would've done better if they opened in the spring and maybe had an advance for the summer time.

[barcelona20]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:20pm

Some Like It Hot papered like crazy last week. Neil Diamond's avg. ticket is hard to believe. I guess its target audience really likes him.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:22pm

People love their bio-jukebox shows. It's perhaps my least favorite type of musical, but there is something to be said about how "accessible" they are to non-theatre people. 

[bdn223]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:25pm

In contrast to the recent doom and gloom of other off Broadway transfers failing to find an audience on Broadway, I am happy Kimberly Akimbo clearly is! I have no idea what the show’s nut is but I hope it’s officially making money, and would be surprised if it wasn’t. 
Hopefully it can be a testament that a Broadway still has room for little shows that could sleeper hits.

[thoroughlymodernbilly]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:31pm

Man, seems like the producers of "Take Me Out" really overestimated how much interest there'd be in bringing it back. The numbers ever since it reopened have been pretty abysmal -- I wonder if they'll even bother riding it out until February.

I really enjoyed the production and feel bad that the cast has been playing to half-empty houses week after week, particularly after the highs of the Tony wins. The Jesses have seemingly been everywhere promoting it, too. 

Updated On: 12/13/22 at 03:31 PM

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 3:54pm

Kimberly's weekly cost is around $550,000 this was the first week I believe they didn't lose money, here is hoping the momentum lasts into January

[Wick3]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 4:26pm

If there is a discount sent to you, you’d use it. I think that’s what happened with KPOP. 
I can see fans paying full price to watch the last performance though just to get a ticket.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 5:11pm

Surprised Some Like It Hot has struggled so much.

I hope The New York Times rave changes that. 

[CoercedBull]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 5:24pm

So delighted to see Kimberly Akimbo continuing to do well. It's looking like it might prove itself to be the little show that could. Keeping my fingers crossed for a healthy, robust January!!

[Ke3]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 5:48pm

I'm old enough to remember when certain posters on this board were accusing the Kimberly Akimbo producers of "bad producing" on the very first night of previews for daring to transfer this to Broadway.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 6:32pm

KPOP still had an average ticket price of $50. Even sold-out that's very low. Mostly comps for the final weekend?

[HogansHero]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 8:27pm

BETTY22 said: "Surprised Some Like It Hot has struggled so much.

I hope The New York Times rave changes that."

I will definitely have a positive effect. But I think SLIH is a show that is hitting up against its own demography related issues. And onto the baseline we also have to layer in that this is the demographic that is the slowest to come back. 

[pethian]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 8:53pm

HogansHero said: "BETTY22 said: "I will definitely have a positive effect. But I think SLIH is a show that is hitting up against its own demography related issues. And onto the baseline we also have to layer in that this is the demographic that is the slowest to come back."

Could you elaborate on that, please? I've been scratching my head about SLIH not catching on and yours is the first response that seems to hold an explanation.

Updated On: 12/13/22 at 08:53 PM

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 9:45pm

I would think A Beautiful Noise and Some Like It Hot would be pulling in similar crowds. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 9:46pm

SouthernCakes said: "I would think A Beautiful Noise and Some Like It Hot would be pulling in similar crowds."

They are or will be. 

[BJR]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 10:10pm

^For one, the movie is 60+ year old...

People under the age of 45 aren't the ones buying most tickets right now, but all the same, most of those under 45 I know have never seen it.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 10:20pm

I think the prime audience for a stage musicalization of SOME LIKE IT HOT were likely the ones who saw it in 1973 when the show was done as SUGAR.  That the current SOME LIKE IT HOT is 'an old fashioned' musical' is sort of both its calling card and its lynch pin. 

A BEAUTIFUL NOISE is catering to the baby boomers, who like BEAUTIFUL before it respond to the show because it is the 'music of their generation.' I think they are less likely to go see SOME LIKE IT HOT simply because its also a throwback, because its not a show that is a throwback to their nostalgic sweet spot.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 10:46pm

pethian said: "Could you elaborate on that, please? I've been scratching my head about SLIH not catching on and yours is the first response that seems to hold an explanation."

I think others have chimed in to basically say a bit more specifically what I was saying more generally. The film was late 50s, Sugar was early 70s. If we posit that the entry age for either was 20, that means true nostalgia is looking for those now 60-80 or older. That is not a great group in which to be pinning one's hopes for robust sales, and nowadays it is also the group that is leaving home cautiously. There is, of course, a market segment of younger people for whom this era of nostalgia holds interest but I think it is challenging to expand that group beyond Musical Theatre types and fans of movies that are both of that period and also of this type. The talented creatives have done nice work "updating" some but I think it is still hard to pull in the average 50 year old. Hopefully they can perform some magic and bring together a critical mass but I don't think it is going to be a blockbuster. Maybe they will prove me wrong. The Beautiful Noise comparison is to me pretty simple. Those same 50 year olds grew up with Neil Diamond playing on their parents' stereos. It's a harder sell, methinks.

[pethian]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 11:07pm

Thank you HogansHero and QueenAlice. Truly appreciated. This one stumped me.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/13/22 at 11:21pm

I find it amazing that Leopoldstadt is grossing as much as it is, has the average ticket price that it does. And is playing to 80% capacity.  Clearly, they are not selling the cheap seats.

I don’t understand how there is no way to better sell the inexpensive seats.  This is in demand for expensive seats but a dud for less expensive.
 

Have to admit that I cheaped out, saw it from the second balcony — something had to offset the price of the Funny Girl tickets — and enjoyed it immensely.