Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/27

[Rob]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:13pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/27/2008 in BroadwayWorld.com'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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:19pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 03:19 PM

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:22pm

I hope WOM helps TOS.

I want it to be this season's Xanadu...the little show that could.

[BwayBoundJoe]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:28pm

i'm worried about xanadu and TOS...i hope they dont close before christmas

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:30pm

Does anyone know the exact weekly nut for [title of show]?

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:32pm

A little under $200,000.00

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:32pm

Does anyone know the real "nut" for any show? I would be interested.

Lots of camp groups around.

Updated On: 7/28/08 at 03:32 PM

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:34pm

Yeah, they're pretty public. :)

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:37pm

I know it's too early to predict, but if Xanadu is still around, I can think of no better way to spend New Years Eve.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:40pm

Maybe the point is for Xanadu NY to close to take the sets to Chicago or on Tour?

[Grand Motel]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:58pm

So all the reality show hype did little for Legally Blonde's grosses. It actually went down a teeny bit.

[FosterChild]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:01pm

I noticed that too Grand Motel. I long suspected the show had a very limited appeal and audience.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:05pm

My god, I am so scared for [title of show].

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:46pm

"I long suspected the show had a very limited appeal and audience."

What show? The reality show or Legally Blonde itself... cause 93% is pretty stellar... especially considering where it was before the show. I don't know. Seems like it helped to me.

[fvalle24]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:50pm

Well I've read somewhere that due to the low production cost [tos] doesn't need to sell THAT many tickets. It's about 200k a week, and it's not making that.

I'm rooting for it!! I haven't seen any marketing in NYC for it, besides a couple of posters.

I also think they should lower the ticket prices a tad...

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:08pm

GrandMoter and FosterChild - are you twits incapable of accepting the fact that Blonde is doing very well?

"Legally Blonde" is now doing MUCH better than Gypsy. And there's no Patti Lupone. And it's in year #2. And it's in that BARN the Palace.

I know you guys love to rag on the Blonde. Not this week.

Just go away and dump on some loser show like (y'see here, it'd like to consult your profiles and dump all over the lameass shows you love, but you don't have profiles listed.)

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:21pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 06:21 PM

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:37pm

LEGALLY BLONDE saw a huge jump before this past week, with Laura Bell stepping down and Hailey taking her place. For two weeks, it soared back into the $800,000 range. Prior to that, its average was more like $400,000. So, the collaboration with MTV was actually a very smart move.

You also have to remember that with TV shows, it takes the rest of America a few months to finally make their way to New York to see their televised "stars," as was the case with GREASE (which continues to bask in fairly healthy revenues). Long story short, I predict that LB will stay alive for at least another year, grossing nearly 1/2 million each week.

As for [tos], I couldn't agree more about the need for inner-city advertising. It seems that they're placing ALL their eggs into their on-line basket. What about a few signs in the subways and on the sides of busses? Or a huge billboard in Times Square? Remember a few years back when off-Broadway IN THE HEIGHTS was plastered all over the subway stations? (With cutey Lin-Miranda's pic right there with it!)

[tos] should definitely do something like that. Quick. Otherwise, the $160,00/week they're currently bringing in is not enough for them to stay afloat in that house until the Tony Awards next May, even with the next-to-nothing overhead.

Peace.

[Grand Motel]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:38pm

Was there a need for name calling Allmylife? I'm sorry I don't share your obsession for the mediocrity that has been Blonde and the many elements you staunchly support about it but I support your enthusiasm and would never resort to calling you a twit. On the other hand, reality is, the show was doing very poorly up until very recently and has had , much like every other show, a nice summer time bump. You also need to state the plain fact that it has been heavily discounted for a long time now. I don't care if it runs a day or a decade, my point in my twit post was that there was no sudden earth shattering surge due to the reality show winner taking over and logic would dictate that if ever there was going to be a stampede to the box office, it would be on the heels of the winner taking over. I hope this twit explained himself clearly.

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:57pm

I don't know what you mean by doing poorly. Except for the usually January doldrums, BLONDE most often did in the $600,000 and $700,000s. What's interesting about this week's numbers is that they are the same as Laura Belle's last week, which would probably be higher because of all her fans coming back to see her one last time. I agree that it usually takes a t.v. audience time to catch up.

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 7:10pm

Oh, yeah. And one more thing:


"I also think they should lower the ticket prices a tad..."


Thanks, fvalle24, for being a [tos]ser with a SENSE OF REALITY.


Have any of us actually stopped to think about how many actors/stage hands/musicians/designers [tos] is currently putting OUT of business? Xanadu, for example, has 30 people working on stage (actors/musicians) every night, and almost as many working off stage during the day. . . . Now when you think about In the Heights, South Pacific, and so on, the numbers increase exponentially.

By charging the same full Broadway price for [tos] and not hiring more theater practitioners to design it, run it, and be in it, they're actually destroying - not making - people's dreams of being on Broadway. Am I wrong?

Just my opinion folks.

Peace.
Updated On: 7/28/08 at 07:10 PM

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 7:21pm

Blondes average was NEVER 400 thousand, it was normally around 700 thousand

The show is doing Massive business at the moment, also remember a lot of Blondes audience will have been comped this week for friends, Family etc with Bailey going in, so to score the amount it did and the capacity it did it did fantastic

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 7:26pm

I suppose it's how you define "average," but its total gross was in the $400,000 range several times this year.

. . . now I suppose we're going to have to define "several."

Sigh.



02/03/2008
$437,635

$500,477

$55.39

$250.00

7,901

13,528

8

58.4%

55.6%

2.8%

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 7:59pm

In the 80 weeks "Legally Blonde" has been on Broadway, it has been in the 400,000 to 500,000 weekly gross eight times - or 10% of the time. It has been in the 500,000 plus 70 weeks, above 800,000 thirty-five times (ie close to 50% of the time).

The show is not in the basement on average, it's doing fine.

[DrewBill]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:08pm

At this point, it doesn't look too good for [tos]. I thought the good NYTimes review and positive word-of-mouth would have had more of an impact. I really enjoyed the show, but maybe it's just in the wrong venue at the wrong time?