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He's a fair way down this list as it doesn't take into account changes in cast, only grosses for the first year of a show for the original cast members.Without having data for each show with actual cast members for every performance, it's impossible to get a completely accurate picture. Even then, it's still not an exact science.

Ok, so I think I've come up with a metric that does a reasonable job of measuring the box office impact of individual actors now.The metric is calculated using the first year of grosses for the show, then attributing them to the actors based on their billing from IBDB. If they're top or second billed, they get all of the grosses attributed to them, 3rd and 4th get half, 5th and 6th get a third etc. (i.e. First year grosses / Ceiling(Billing Number/2)) . This seems to get rid of a lot of the no

Thanks Hellob, the challenge here is that the cast of shows is not fixed, so, particularly in the case of long running shows like Phantom, I was attributing grosses to actors that have not been in the show to 20 years. I think doing it based on the first year of the show is probably reasonable. I'm currently working on adding a factor based on the actor's billing on the show, which should help get a better view of this, but will still not be perfect.

Agreed, if there were a data source that showed the leads for each show for the last 30 years, that would be great.I just had a thought about removing them from the analysis where their character is 'Ensemble', which would help, but for Charlie, that wouldn't really help as of his seven roles, only one is listed as 'Ensemble', the others are character descriptions, such as 'Angel', 'Addams Ancestor' or 'Telephone Repairman'

I totally agree with SuddenlySeymour3's points. My wife and I came over to Broadway from Australia in March and between us saw 10 shows in a week, including all the Best Musical nominees.For me, DEH was overall the best show I saw, Groundhog Day is the one I think about the most and particularly how clever the direction and set were. We were at the 4th preview and while there were no issues with the set breaking down, it still felt a little clunky from a stage management perspective at that p...

This is now up to date with the current weeks grosses.Looks like Hamilton will pass Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark next week to become the 18th highest grossing musical since 1984 (22nd when accounting for inflation)

Thanks for all the feedback on this.The data should be updated sometime today to reflect the grosses up to today.I've created a new metric to replace bankability that associates the grosses for the first year of a show to the actor. The results of this are below:This seems to make more sense to have Nathan Lane be at the top, but I'm not sure about the others. Any thoughts on a good name for the metric? I agree that 'bankability' isn't right as there coul

It's a fair point and this metric isn't something that was front and centre in the original version of the analysis.Perhaps a better metric would be to attribute revenues for the first year of a show's run to the original cast? I might have a look at that next week if I have time.Yes @chernjam, the numbers in this version are a few weeks old. I'll see if I can get them updated, but if anyone's interested in a version that updates each week automatically, send me a PM and I'll see what I can a...

It's $1.8 billion. Not sure why it's showing 'T', I'll look into that...If you click on any of the values (when using a desktop browser), you'll see the information associated with what you've clicked on.For example, if you click on 'Andrew Lloyd Webber', you'll then see all the shows that he wrote, along with the associated grosses, actors etc.

Thanks for the feedback.The 'bankable' metric is based on the total gross of shows that the actor was part of the cast in for opening night. In the case of Judy Kaye, it sums the grosses for Phantom, Mamma Mia, Ragtime, Nice Work if you can Get It and Souvenir. It would be nice to look at it week by week, with changing casts, but that information isn't available sadly.If you click on actors in the most bankable section, it will select them, and show the associated data through the rest of the...

Here's something I've been working on for a little while...https://webapps.qlik.com/broadway/index.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BroadwayApp&sourceID1=Social_Twitter_BroadwayApp#/home/It contains data for every weeks Broadway grosses since 1984. The link above takes you to a nicely formatted overview of the data, provides some insights and al

Something I haven't seen picked up yet is that with this last week's grosses, Wicked passed Phantom to become the 2nd highest grossing Broadway show of all time (not accounting for inflation). That's pretty amazing!

I also saw this a couple of days ago at a preview screening in Australia and loved every second.The soundtrack and score are available on Apple Music/Spotify etc, now. In Australia, the John Legend track isn't available on Spotify, not sure if that's the same elsewhere though.