Broadway Grosses April 4 - 10

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:01pm

In a word, "OUCH." Lots of major drops.

The worst:

Little Women (-29.7%; 51.2% attendance; $304K Gross)
Brooklyn (-25.8%; 45.6% attendance; $181K Gross)
Good Vibrations (-23.3%; 44.3% attendance; $210K Gross)
Fiddler (-22.1%; 68.7% attendance; $529K Gross)
Dame Edna 38.2% attendance
Democracy 34.4% attendance
On Golden Pond 37.7% attendance
The Glass Menagerie 48.5% attendance
La Cage 52.1% attendance
Jackie Mason 55.2% attendance
Steel Magnolias 57.6% attendance
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92279.html

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:02pm

Ouch indeed!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:03pm

wow

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:05pm

Again.....HOW is Brooklyn staying open? Are the actors performing for free???

[magruder]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:10pm

Though Doubt (up $64,931 to a net gross of $384,858 and up 9.5% to 82.1%), Julius Caesar (up $48,051 to a net gross of $560,833 and also up 9.5% to 87.5%) and The Light in the Piazza (up $38,969 to a net gross of $264,366 and up 7.5% to 78.3%) all bucked the downward trend.

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 06:10 PM

[Jwei123]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:10pm

ohh. rough week!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:11pm

Brooklyn is not giving up yet
They just started a new ad campaign (I just got a BKLYN flyer in the mail today from TeleCharge), They went on TV with the new commercial and the radio ad is running 24/7

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 06:11 PM

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:12pm

Bad week. Brooklyn can't survive past summer. And poor Little Women.

[Holliwoodblonde]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:13pm

Oy Vey.

[jjdude2000]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 6:58pm

Eeee. Thats not good.

[magruder]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 7:02pm

I also neglected to notice that Streetcar and Virginia Woolf had increases in their grosses, though both dropped a bit in their percentage of paid capacity.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 7:04pm

Most of the grosses are embarrasing

[Plum]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 7:13pm

Looks like Brooklyn is below even its paltry running costs. And poor Democracy- I think it's a bit of a miracle it's lasted even this long.

So...anyone want to speculate on closing dates for Good Vibrations?
Updated On: 4/11/05 at 07:13 PM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 7:19pm

What I think is a shame is how shows like Brooklyn, and Good Vibrations are currently running and shows like Sweeney Todd and Les Miz, and Aida are gone. It's also when people think of Broadway and they think of Mamma Mia and Hairspray (shakes head).

[pab]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 7:19pm

"They went on TV with the new commercial and the radio ad is running 24/7".

Oh boy. If they are looking for that "Brooklyn" TV commercial to bring in business, they might as well close the doors now.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:55pm

Ha ha Brooklyn, you suck. You too, Good Vibrations. Glad audiences are starting to come to their senses.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 9:37pm

Unless Goulet plays Lancelot again & rides to the rescue of the La Cage grosses, it may be gone in a month or 2. What a shame

[Juliet2170]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 9:48pm

i agree with pab, the brooklyn tv commercial can only serve to hinder though i enjoyed my rush tickets when i went. poor little women! and pretty much everything. how are the % attendence so low? i don't think there's any events going on...

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:03pm

That's not necessarily true. Does anyone remember the A Chorus Line commercials that did VERY well for the show and had a bit of a legend themselves for a while. Although broadway was different then.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:33pm

Yikes! That's rough.

[bostonbroadwayfan]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:48pm

Movin Out down 18% ugh!.

Tough week.
Was everyone home watching baseball???:)

[focusingonmoviesmatt]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 11:58pm

I think most shows are praying that they can stay open till the tourist get here. What show do u think will be the first to go.

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 12:05am

I think all the ones that are not scheduled to close will remail open at least until May 10th, after that I see GOOD VIBRATIONS shuttering quicker than the Bush twins getting drunk at Happy Hour. BROOKLYN possibly, depending on whether it grabs a nod or not. LA CAGE will do just fine in the nominations department, and with Goulet will find a fruitful box office come May. LITTLE WOMEN better hope for big things as well (more than Sutton & Maureen would be nice for them).

Other than that, looks like theyll all be safe for the time being. Although GLASS MINAGERIE better watch itself, and even though OGP was low, it was opening week- next week HAS to be better!

[tpdc]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 1:11am

If there is only one revival category this year, LA CAGE's design and choreography nominations won't give it much boost at the box office. It looks like Goulet's name is all they have going for them now. If James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams in a well reviewed show, Delta Burke and company in a mixed reviewed show and Jessica Lange and Christian Slater in a poorly reviewed classic aren't selling many tickets, Goulet must be nervous. And what of JULIUS CAESAR not selling out despite starring a bona fide A list movie star on stage for the first time in years? Maybe stars are no longer "sure things" when ticket prices are so high.

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 4:11pm

THAT was not a pretty read... I think La Cage is suffering from negative press and may in fact get a new lease on life when Goulet comes in.. I sure hope so. Brooklyn and GV are on their last legs.. I cant see them recovering. It's a shame since theirs such talented people in the show. If some shows can survive until summer they may have some hope..