Profile for TheyCallMePoppa

I'm always concerned with shows that have dropped below 70% entering into the barren wasteland that is January, unless they have already paid off investors and can be run into weekly profit at that point until "the landlord" wants to take a run at a new tenant and a higher gross.

Producers use the same spreadsheets that list payouts at potential gross percentages, and expensive shows that haven't paid back and that can't maintain above 70% aren't paying out to

Anyone else challenged/bothered/concerned by the numbers for Spongebob?

 

52% gross potential, sub $60 average paid, and a gross below Saigon for a show with a large cast.

 

I have heard so so so many delightful comments from friends and I'm excited to see it (especially because it sounds like wonderful escapism from our current reality). Late fall openings that don't hit the ground running can have a challenge getting to the summer.  Thought

<Opens candy wrapped in plastic in the seat right behind you. Examines another top-three all-time box office report for Dear Evan Hansen.>

"Even I am tired of this bit."

<Pops candy in mouth. Crunches on it while opening another small candy wrapped in plastic.>

<Opens candy wrapped in plastic in the seat right behind you.>

"And did you see this week's box office report? Second highest grossing week ever.  Wow.  That's some effective boycott."

<Pops candy in mouth. Crunches on it while opening another small candy wrapped in plastic.>

"Yep. Imagine that."

I just came here to suggest that the show boycott has been so successful that DEH just broke the house record...in Noah's first week.

 

"I cough in your general direction while loudly unwrapping small plastic candies right behind you."

 

http://www.playbill.com/article/grosses-analysis-broadway-hits-record-thanksgiving-week-with-dear-evan-hansen-hello-dolly-more-reaching-milestones