Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/10/2022 in BroadwayWorld'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.
When I was looking at the "Into the Woods" seating chart a couple of weeks ago, it was striking how empty the seats were on some of the performances around July 4th last week but of course I realise this can be a quieter week (forgot about Independence Day). Regardless of which, they ended up filling them and now the rest of the run looks very well sold. It seems crazy but if the show was cheap to mount (it appears to look so!) they might actually have a chance at recouping in 8 weeks, which is a pretty big feat for any musical let alone a Sondheim musical! Nice one!
"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
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binau said: "When I was looking at the "Into the Woods" seating chart a couple of weeks ago, it was striking how empty the seats were on some of the performances around July 4th last week but of course I realise this can be a quieter week (forgot about Independence Day). Regardless of which, they ended up filling them and now the rest of the run looks very well sold. It seems crazy but if the show was cheap to mount (it appears to look so!) they might actually have a chance at recouping in 8 weeks, which is a pretty big feat for any musical let alone a Sondheim musical! Nice one!"
I can’t imagine the salaries of the cast are exactly cheap.
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It looks like a good chunk of the shows took a dunking this week.
Now that we can end the death watch for PARADISE SQUARE, my next prognostication is going to be for MR. SATURDAY NIGHT to pack it in by Labor Day weekend.
My rationale is that, with COVID rising again and the show’s demographics (theatre afficionados and older people) mostly dried up, along with the fact that even trying to capitalize on Crystal’s name isn’t worth much - I think they’re gonna limp through the summer and call it quits. The run will have been 5-6 months long at that point and I don’t think Crystal is going to try and push beyond that.
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quizking101 said: "binau said: "When I was looking at the "Into the Woods" seating chart a couple of weeks ago, it was striking how empty the seats were on some of the performances around July 4th last week but of course I realise this can be a quieter week (forgot about Independence Day). Regardless of which, they ended up filling them and now the rest of the run looks very well sold. It seems crazy but if the show was cheap to mount (it appears to look so!) they might actually have a chance at recouping in 8 weeks, which is a pretty big feat for any musical let alone a Sondheim musical! Nice one!"
I can’t imagine the salaries of the cast are exactly cheap.
quizking101 said: "It looks like a good chunk of the shows took a dunking this week.
Now that we can end the death watch for PARADISE SQUARE, my next prognostication is going to be for MR. SATURDAY NIGHT to pack it in by Labor Day weekend.
My rationale is that, with COVID rising again and the show’s demographics (theatre afficionados and older people) mostly dried up, along with the fact that even trying to capitalize on Crystal’s name isn’t worth much - I think they’re gonna limp through the summer and call it quits. The run will have been 5-6 months long at that point and I don’t think Crystal is going to try and push beyond that."
I agree. I think its tapped out what Billy Crystal can draw as a name for the most part and its numbers are looking worse and worse.
Now we see why the changes at FUNNY GIRL happened. POTUS numbers are not good.
We loved the Into The Woods cast (but missed Headley - and sometimes Harris - even if new cast is strong enough). Soo was a new standout. Direction is bland and basic.
MJ is a bonefide winner. Strange Loop may not last after Christmas or sooner if numbers decline.
Interesting that "A Strange Loop" could not sell quite a few seats despite winning the Tony Award for Best Musical recently. Looking at the "Best Musical" winner grosses for the last 10 years this seems to be an unusual situation/unheard of situation. If I have looked correctly I believe the closet thing is "Once" but that still sold 99.2% of its seats.
"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
Is July a slow month for shows on Broadway, as a general rule?
There seems to be an overall weakening of demand? Attendance down by 3 % overall, compared to the previous week which was supposedly affected by out-of-town 4th of July celebrations?
bwayphreak234 said: "Question... is there a reason gross potential numbers and percentages are no longer posted?"
My guess is it was a compromise made when they began reporting the grosses again. I agree that it's infuriating that this number is not made public now. We can guess based on average ticket price relative to # of seats filled, but that's not a great solution.
I noticed a while ago that Mr. Saturday Night only had tickets on sale through Labor Day weekend. So even though they haven’t announced a closing date, they do seem to have one less than 2 months away (assuming they make it that far).
jo said: "Is July a slow month for shows on Broadway, as a general rule?
There seems to be an overall weakening of demand? Attention down by 3 % overall, compared to the previous week which was supposedly affected by out-of-town 4th of July celebrations?"
Summer isn't great for any show that can't bring in tourists, both domestic and international, with a great deal of a show's weekly gross coming from last minute sales in the same week or on the same day. As there is such a lower number of those folks in town and NYers are out of the city as is typical in the Summer, there's just a more finite number of people.
Mr. Saturday Night only did 6 performances that week, hence the dip in grosses. I do think Crystal's base is tapped out now and it should probably look to close up this Fall.
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RippedMan said: "Has Crystal done the talk show circuit? I thought his performance on the Tonys was very winning and I would have gotten a ticket."
Yes he has done various talkshow appearances. I'm as surprised as anyone that his fanbase hasn't proved to be much larger. I don't really know how WOM is –– the reviews were pretty kind, and if you're a Crystal fan you'll probably have a pretty good time, even if the musical on a whole isn't great. The ad campaign is not great and the early TV spots were kind of lame.