Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/24/23

[Rob]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 4:22pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/24/2023 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.

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (7.7%), CHICAGO (7%), & JULIET (6.1%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (6.1%), SPAMALOT (4.3%), MJ THE MUSICAL (3.8%), ALADDIN (3.3%), HADESTOWN (1.8%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (0.9%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.4%), SIX (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (-14.5%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (-11%), APPROPRIATE (-11%), HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO (-6.6%), SHUCKED (-4.5%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-3.2%), HARMONY (-2.6%), GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! (-1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-1%), THE LION KING (-0.7%), WICKED (-0.1%),

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[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 4:34pm

Only a seven-performance-week for Harmony but that number is dismal.

And how much cash is left in the Dirty Dancing endowment to keep Ohio open? Looking bleak. 

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 4:46pm

I really liked Harmony.  The story and music are compelling.  It's even more relevant now, than ever.  I hope it's able to hang on a little while longer, but their numbers are dire.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 4:57pm

I’m a little surprised that Moulin Rouge! and Merrily’s numbers didn’t rise last week. 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 5:06pm

Surprised by Neil Diamond drop.

I assumed this show would be a huge hit with holiday tourists. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 5:13pm

BETTY22 said: "Surprised by Neil Diamond drop.

I assumed this show would be a huge hit with holiday tourists."

A Beautiful Noise has been the opposite of what you’d normally expect from a show of its caliber gross-wise. 

I assume its numbers will rise post-New Year’s.

[tthomas76]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 5:27pm

I just wonder how long some of these shows are going to hold on.  If prime holiday season isn't drawing in an audience I'm not sure the dead of winter will.  

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 5:49pm

BETTY22 said: "Surprised by Neil Diamond drop.

I assumed this show would be a huge hit with holiday tourists."

their typical audience wasn't in the city this past week. Also, their Xmas Eve show was empty, probably a 40% full house. Their New Year's Eve performance this Sunday is going to be worse. Only roughly 200 seats are sold currently. But the majority of theirother 8 shows this week are sold well.

[GottaGetAGimmick420]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 5:51pm

My best bet, no insider info just opinion: How To Dance In Ohio announces a late-January/early-February closing next week or the one after. There's no way they'll let this die a slow and painful death just because this was Hal's last project/many producers first. I wish it did better, but with those numbers...

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 6:14pm

HOW TO DANCE is toast. Those are some BAD CINDERELLA numbers they are posting and BC at least had ALW money behind it. If this hasn't folded by January 14th, I will eat my hat.

I know I comment on PURLIE every week - I'm actually glad they've managed to stay open and will very likely complete their run. The numbers are perfectly adequate for a production that size and it just broke 100 performances (not counting previews) this past week.

Also, just a reminder that next week, we are going to see wonkier grosses than normal since most shows are doing 9 performances this week - and the disparities will probably be much more glaring.

[Sammy232]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 6:23pm

BorisTomashevsky said: "Only a seven-performance-week for Harmony but that number is dismal.

And how much cash is left in the Dirty Dancing endowment to keep Ohio open? Looking bleak."

My guess is it's actually more Fiona Rudin (of the enormous real estate company) who is a lead producer that is keeping things afloat? I have to give credit if this is the case, there was a similar rumor about Here Lies Love, if wealthy producers are really standing behind their shows in this way to give them a chance to catch on with audiences. 

[SweetLips22]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 9:24pm

With the enormous grosses of the few very popular shows[or all], what percentage goes to the composers?

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 9:41pm

SweetLips22 said: "With the enormous grosses of the few very popular shows[or all], what percentage goes to the composers?"

Hopefully others know details of current productions, but the only one I ever heard about was Alain Boublil getting 1% of the gross worldwide of any production of Les Mis. I can only imagine things would have changed since the 80s, and that someone like Elton John can command a higher percentage (even when making the deal in 1997).

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 12/26/23 at 11:37pm

Boy OHIO is dead dead dead, what a misfire

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 11:31pm

quizking101 said: "HOW TO DANCE is toast. Those are some BAD CINDERELLA numbers they are posting and BC at least had ALW money behind it. If this hasn't folded by January 14th, I will eat my hat.

I know I comment on PURLIE every week - I'm actually glad they've managed to stay open and will very likely complete their run. The numbers are perfectly adequate for a production that size and it just broke 100 performances (not counting previews) this past week.

Also, just a reminder that next week, we are going to see wonkier grosses than normal since most shows are doing 9 performances this week - and the disparities will probably be much more glaring."

Unfortunately, it is going to be a big money loser.

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 12:03am

SweetLips22 said: "With the enormous grosses of the few very popular shows[or all], what percentage goes to the composers?"

The percentage they negotiate in their contract lol 

Schwartz has made around  $30 million just from Wicked, for example.