Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:20pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/27/2007 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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:32pmI expected grosses to be up a little bit more than they are.
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#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:38pm
Hey! Company's almost at 50%! That's great! 
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:43pm
"Hey! Company's almost at 50%! That's great!"
While their audience capacity went up, their financial gross for the week went down by over $1,500. Not an awful drop, but it's by no means a good thing.
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:47pm
Oh, I'm wholly aware. I was kidding. The average ticket price was reduced by just over $5, which accounts for the loss.
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
Updated On: 5/30/07 at 12:47 PM
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:52pm
JESUS, look at Spring Awakening!! 95% capacity???? Guess those Tony noms did help. Also, it's slightly strange is see an entry after Wicked (a.k.a. Xanadu). I am so used to seeing the tallest bar be all the way on the right of the graph, lol. 
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:53pmYeah, note winky face.
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:56pmAhh... the winky face. Conveyor of all things sarcastic. lol.
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 1:48pm
PIRATE QUEEN is sinking faster than expected. Without any exposure on the Tony telecast, the show seems doomed.
GREY GARDENS will need several Tonys to boost its sales. I doubt evan a Best Musical Revival Tony will help COMPANY. It's just not an audience-friendly show, and it seems most general theatre-goers (i.e. beyond the passionate theatre fans)want a show that's fun or a retread of a familiar movie.
I do wonder why it took the Tony noms to boost SPRING to 95%. The reviews and advance word-of-mouth shoudl have done that. Makes me think that reviews sell a lot fewer tickets now than in the past.
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#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 1:56pm
Very happy to see Spring Awakening in the upper 90's. I'm really pulling for Company and Grey Gardens, but I agree that some Tonys are about the only thing that will boost sales. But yeah... The Pirate Queen just keeps going lower and lower.
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Updated On: 5/30/07 at 01:56 PM
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:09pmI would've though Grey Gardens would've had a boost. Does 10 Tony nominations mean anything to people?
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#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:15pmyeah Spring Awakening!! and HUGE YES for Journeys End for a bump to 36%!! One big jump closer to 50%!
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#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:18pmI am disappointed that "The Revolutionary Costume" is being done on the Tony telecast to represent GREY GARDENS. It's hardly the best or most represenattive number in the score. Also it was showcased on last year's Drama Desk awards and at that point it left me underwhelmed. I think "The 5:15" sequence better captures the essence of the show.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:41pm
GREY GARDENS will without a doubt get a big boost after its Tony wins.
I couldn't be more thrilled about SPRING AWAKENING! If it's at 95% before the Tonys, come June 11th this is going to become a hard-to-get ticket!
WOOHOO for a JOURNEY'S END bump! I know that it's still closing on June 10th, but at least some more people are actually seeing it and experiencing it.
As for COMPANY -- with the combination of an absolutely electric Tony performance by Raul, a Tony win for Raul and a Best Revival win, I'm hoping that it will get a nice boost past the Tonys and perhaps last at least through July.
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#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:42pmDamn Spring Awakening. This is BEFORE, the Tony's.
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#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:49pm
Looks like Drowsy Chaperone is beginning to slip up a little, with the new musicals of this season, Spring Awakening, Curtains, Legally Blonde and Mary Poppins stealing it's thunder...
It's weekly op. costs are about $540,000, so, hopefully it won't sink below that for a long time...
Updated On: 5/30/07 at 02:49 PM
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#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 3:44pmWow! Yay for SA! That's a HUGE jump in capacity from a mere two weeks ago when it was in the low 70's.
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#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 3:46pm
A drop for my beloved CURTAINS! I think I'm having a stroke! Nice pick up for Journey's End...now that it's closing! Awakening at 95%, now I'm definitely having a stroke. I know I'm not the only one who didn't care for this show, but jeez it sure feels that way. Congrats to SA's fans just the same.
Updated On: 5/30/07 at 03:46 PM
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 3:51pm
I am so glad for SA. That young cast truly deserves it.
I also thought it was weird seeing something after Wicked
I am truly worried about Xanadu. Yeah, they had a 80 some percent but they didn't make crap. Worst gross on broadway.
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#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 3:54pmWell Xanadu did just start previews last week...
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#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 6:39pm
And they only had 5 performances.
I am happy that at least some of the shows grosses went up.
I shave me Xanadu every morning!
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#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 7:14pmSummer has started and the grosses are still anemic. I would have expected a lot of the general interest shows to start picking up but it doesn't look that way.
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#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 7:18pmSummer begins on June 21st. Most elementary, middle, and high school don't get out until the 15th, that is when the grosses should start to pick up.
I shave me Xanadu every morning!
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#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 7:22pm
What would y'all define as general interest shows?
Really, now that the Producers is gone I expect grosses for Mamma Mia, Wicked, Hairspray and Phantom to increase...
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#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/27/2007
Posted: 5/30/07 at 7:22pmGlad to see LOVEMUSIK going up. Sad to see GREY GARDENS go down. I wonder how much money XANADU has to make in a week to break even at a theatre as small as the Helen Hayes.
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