Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:27pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/27/2011 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.
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:28pm
Oh god. The ticket price for FOLLIES is really quite high, allowing them to cut even, but they need to do something..cancel the extension? Next week doesn't look good either.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 11/28/11 at 03:28 PM
LegallyBroadway2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/10
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:31pmWow. $170 ticket average for Book Of Mormon.
jetts7
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/11
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:34pmYEd! Addams Family is getting good sales this week :)
TexanAddams18
Stand-by Joined: 7/19/11
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:35pmI think the writings on the wall for ON AN A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOR TWOFERS.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:35pm
Great to see that many shows hit the million mark and two million mark!
Follies really is not doing well....at all! I checked the seating chart for some of the shows this weekend and it always seemed like there were more unsold seats than there were sold. And Lysistrata Jones better do something fast. I don't know what, but those numbers are scarily low.
Also good to see Wicked back up to 100% capacity.
Updated On: 11/28/11 at 03:35 PM
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:36pm
Not a great week for 'Sister Act' surprisingly. I thought it would be a great tourist show for people to see during Thanksgiving week. Most shows received big bumps this week though.
Updated On: 11/28/11 at 03:36 PM
stevenycguy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:36pmWhy the steep drop at "On a Clear Day"? I'm guessing word of mouth isn't very good.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:41pmWOW! Spider-Man hit the 2 million mark! Also, nice to see Godspell increasing weekly.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:41pmOuch Follies!!! Really surprised that some shows actually saw a drop in grosses for Thanksgiving week(i.e. Sister Act, Other Desert Cities, Private Lives). and it should be noted that Book of Mormon did 9 performances, also.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:45pmThis is probably apropos of nothing, but I wonder if the increased prices for the holiday weekend made some people give pause before buying tickets. Not the blockbusters but the in-between shows.
BroadwayEd
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:52pm
THE BOOK OF MORMON will be the death of Broadway!
(Ok, that sounds a little melodramatic).
But still, how can people afford to see other shows if they are paying so much money to see BOM? $170 is ridiculous
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:55pm
The drop for Other Desert Cities makes sense and actually really isn't bad considering Stockard Channing was out almost all week. It's a shame for the show that it happened during a holday week, but that show's got some serious legs, so I don't think it has anything to worry about.
Relatively Speaking, on the other hand, doesn't look like it will be able to pull out of its freefall.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:56pm
"how can people afford to see other shows if they are paying so much money to see BOM? $170 is ridiculous"
Well...they can probably still afford a ticket to Lysistrata Jones.
Too mean?
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 3:59pm
$170 is ridiculous
I haven't seen it, but THE BOOK OF MORMON must be a good show to command that ticket price.
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:00pm
Given the amount of comping taking place to make their average ticket price a whole $28, I feel like an idiot for having actually paid money to purchase a TDF ticket to Lysie Jones.
Updated On: 11/28/11 at 04:00 PM
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:15pm
I feel the same way, AdamGreer.
Lysistrata Jones has NO BUSINESS being on Broadway - it's the worst show I've ever seen (Although I do love Patti Murin!)
The chance of it either closing before opening or being the next "Glory Days" and closing the day after opening is becoming almost 100%.
Updated On: 11/28/11 at 04:15 PM
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:17pm
wow private lives was actually down on a holiday weekend.... not good folks and .... (looks at Bonnie & Clyde) they better hope they don't get slaughtered on the 1st or they are gone by January.
Godspell is up, great.
Lysistrata is down in gross percentage, how thats possible when it was 18.30 percent last week is amazing.
Surprised Patti & Mandy is grossing so little, guess people want production value for their money and not self indulgent nonsense for 2 1/2 hours.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:24pm
Can't believe Lysistrata put up those numbers for a second straight week. It's one of two shows I bought tix for in advance for a mid-December visit.
The other, you ask? Follies!
Guess I'd better be prepared for multiple last-minute changes to my plans...
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:31pmI had friends that wanted to see Follies this past weekend but all the discount codes were not available. Same for the next 3 or 4 weekends. I wonder if they will change their mind and offer the codes?
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:37pm
Follies producers are idiots for doing what they did by having a lack of discounts - the few they did have were still $97 a ticket which is unrealistic.
They did this to themselves. It's too bad, because it's one of the best shows playing and it's playing to 47% capacity.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 4:47pm
Huss ---
Tell your friends that even though the discounts clearly say they expire Dec. 15, they don't. I got discount tickets for 12/17. I just tried again now, and it still lets you do it.
The blackout dates are this weekend and next, and then it "expires" 12/15. So yeah, you'd think you're out of luck...but not so!
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27
Posted: 11/28/11 at 5:00pmI can't believe anyone paid even $28 for Lysistrata Jones. I got my comps for tonight, and so did everyone else I know, and I was told I could request up to 10!!! But it's not a press night is it? L.J. will have to close on opening, if they're gross potential fell to 17% on THE SECOND BUSIEST WEEK FOR BROADWAY OF THE YEAR. LOL #GreekTragedyonBroadway
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