Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/17

[Rob]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:23pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/17/2008 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

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:28pm

Boo for [tos]

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:28pm

In the words of Juno, f...ity f...

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:29pm

Why is GYPSY at only 72%? TOS not really picking up. Whoopi continues to help XAN. PHANTOM's numbers continue to amaze me.

[BenKaye]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:37pm

Wow! how is [tos] still surviving? This is crazy. I really hope things start picking up for those guys.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:43pm

"Why is GYPSY at only 72%?"
I hear Patti is making fans cry at the Stage Door.

[englishtoser]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 3:48pm

In retrospect, [tos] really could have done with hanging on for a smaller theatre. People are sounding the death knell 'cause they're hitting below 50% capacity, but had they been pulling the same number of bodies through the door at the Helen Hayes, say, they'd have posted 76% this week, which most people would be saying is not too bad for a non-conventional non-big brand show. I think where they're really gonna do well is if they do a regional tour. I'm amazed how many of the fans on their web pages have been saying "please come to the Florida", "please come to Chicago", etc. I was thinking of saying "go see them on Broadway, you moaners, I flew out from London (my first visit to NYC let alone B'Way) just to see them" - THEN I realised most of their web fans are really young, teenage drama student types who can't spring for flights or a hotel etc. A tour playing just a few nights in each city would work well I think - taking the show to their internet fan club. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a movie based on the whole [tos] story - it's your typical Hollywood feelgood movie (but end the movie on Opening Night and don't mention the grosses!). As a huge [tos] fan, I have to be realistic and say I don't see it lasting into October. I half suspect American Buffalo (previews from Halloween, no theatre yet announced) has already been offered the Lyceum
Updated On: 8/18/08 at 03:48 PM

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:01pm

Yay, Xanadu! It makes me happy.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:03pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 04:03 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:12pm

And the undeserving Grease keeps right on truckin'...

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:16pm

Most of the money to be made for the TOS show team is going to come from regional licensing - and when every college and rep company in the country starts doing it. I don't think a tour would be financially viable, though I could certainly see the original cast/creative team opening it in Los Angeles or Chicago.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:17pm

Isn't most of the charm of [tos] that the people who wrote it are starring? I can't see any college/rep companies doing it.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:21pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 04:21 PM

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:21pm

Isn't most of the charm of [tos] that the people who wrote it are starring? I can't see any college/rep companies doing it.

My thoughts exactly. SPOILER----------------------------


The major plot point of the second half is how they couldn't replace one of the actors and have it still be the same show...

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:28pm

That doesn't change the fact that [tos} is actually a strong book musical. They don't rewrite it when an understudy goes on. It doesn't need the original writer/stars to succeed any more than the Laramie Project did.

Rodgers and Hammerstein already owns the licensing for it.

http://rnh.com/show_detail.asp?id=TO&s=1

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:29pm

I would be *shocked* if they even got a Best Book or Best Score nomination.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:31pm

I'd be shocked if they didn't. Given the industry love the show and the other musicals scheduled to open on Broadway this year...

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:31pm

More sadness for [tos], but they said on their blog they weren't "going anywhere" sooo...

Still wondering how long Mama Mia is going to stay on top.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:38pm

And actually, I don't think the point of Act 2, is that they couldn't replace one of the actors and have it be the same show, but that it would compromise the artistic integrity to replace one of them with some type of 'name' to make the piece more commercially viable.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 4:50pm

Yay for Xanadu!

[philly03]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 5:39pm

Yay for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! Still doing extremely well. Almost as good (money wise) as In the Heights, even though it sold more seats/capicity!

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 5:48pm

Keep on truckin' mama, truckin' all your blues away! Go Grease, sorry for you Glinda. I get so tired of Grease being knocked.

Thank you LePetiteFromage.

[BrianS]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 6:36pm

I think they put TOS in the Lyceum even though it's not the smallest theater because nobody wants the Lyceum which means that a) they get a better deal on the rent and b) there is less pressure for a theater owner to push them out to get a more lucrative show in. While the Booth and the Cort are smaller, their location puts them in more demand for the few plays that make it to bway.

side note... I can't figure out if it's an in-joke by the producers of TOS to have a $200 top ticket price. A comment on the industry or just stupidity?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 7:28pm

The $200 top ticket price is for premium seats. All Broadway shows now offer premium seats above the usual $111 price now. Most premium seats range from $125(South Pacific) to $350(Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, Young Frankenstein).

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 7:32pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 07:32 PM