Broadway Grosses Dec. 27th - Jan. 2nd

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:43pm

Wow! That was an AMAZING week for Broadway!
Bombay was up $406,439 (!!)
Brooklyn was up $214,342 (yay!) - Their highest gross ever ($435,176)
Dracula was up $262,004 (!!)
Fiddler was up $514,261 (!!)
Good Vibrations was up $259,825
Little Women was up $227,317 !
La Cage was up $340,220
RENT was up $283,827
Producers were up $352,517
And... wonderful town up $331,351!!

Updated On: 1/3/05 at 08:43 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:44pm

Good thing, too, because now that the Holiday Season is over those grosses will go down, down, down.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:56pm

But no tourists means I get to run around and buy great student rush tickets. Democracy, here I come!

[jjdude2000]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:58pm

What site did that come from? I can't find it.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:59pm

You go Chicago! 8 years later, It's still hotter and more successful than the new Broadway fluff.. *cough* (Brooklyn).

[Benzy92]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:00pm

I'm really glad Brooklyn went up, but it needed to be way higher because it is going to get lower and lower in Jan and Feb.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:00pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/90420.html

[PJ]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:12pm

Wow. Quite a few 100%'s.

[kim1061]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:18pm

wow beauty and the beast is still going on strong.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:32pm

The week between Xmas and New Years is the single busiest of the year for Broadway. Check out the numbers in a week or two to get a more realistic sense of how some of the shows are doing and what their long-term prognosis will be.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:34pm

Not to hate, Tiny-Toon, but $435,176 and 68.2% attendance for a holiday week is POWERFULLY low. In fact BROOKLYN is the second-lowest grossing musical this week after PACIFIC OVERTURES. With figures like that I'd be shocked if this show was still around by the time the Tony nominations go out.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:38pm

Well, while Pacific Overtures may have grossed less than Brooklyn, that is no indication of how they are doing because Roundabout is non-profit and therefore a little less expensive. So:

Pacific Overtures~91.6%
Brooklyn~68.2%

Just so the post by 'CastAlbumFan' won't be misleading.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:39pm

Brooklyn's weekly cost is one of the lowest on Broadway, about $250,000
So, for Brooklyn - $435,176 is great! (Highest ever..)

Remember when Brooklyn had 97% attn. but only $414,000?

Updated On: 1/3/05 at 09:39 PM

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:40pm

Thanks for the clarification, Priest! Go PACIFIC OVERTURES!

Updated On: 1/3/05 at 09:40 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:43pm

Margo's completely right. It's worth mentioning that the family that sat next to me at Gem of the Ocean last week only came there because those were the last tickets available (I'm presuming at the TKTS booth). It was that kind of week. The lean months are coming now, and shows need to survive them to get through to Tony time.

[Staci1818]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:57pm

I might actually get to see Pacific Overtures. How much is student rush, and when does it close? I'm going to try and get someone to let me go.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:59pm

Unless it gets extended (slim chance), it will close January 30.


I couldn't possibly recommend it more.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:10pm

Just to add, a large chunk of Pacific Overtures' weekly gross is made up of subscriber seats. I'm a Roundabout subscriber and I went last week -- my front mezz seat only cost me about $50 (instead of $91.25). If lots of my fellow Roundabout members also went last week (and there were probably hundreds -- Roundabout has approx 50,000+ subscribers it has to work into the show's 12 week run), then of course the overall weekly gross is going to be lower than a commercial "for profit" show in a similarly-sized house.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:29pm

I was just about to post this...Im so happy that these shows are doing so well!

Phantom at 101%!!
Producers at 100!
Bombay Dreams at 91 percent!!!!!!
La Cage at 82%!

and the most surprising was that RENT leaped up the charts and lead the pack this week filling the Nederlander to a whopping 102%!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to RENT!!!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:32pm

Also THRILLED about 42nd Streets final week being phenomenal! 99%!!! and Chicago at 101, Beauty at 100, Fiddler at 94! and (very happy about this one) Wonderful Town at 82%! What an utterly amazing week!!!!!

[admanrich]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:34pm

Poor Brooklyn. Eden deserves better.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:50pm

It's great for shows, such as Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast, and 42nd Street, that got really high percentages and normally did not reach that high.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:52pm

42nd Street had a high attn. number because that was their final week..

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:59pm

I don't know if Rent pulled in the most money (have to go back and check), but I think it had the highest percentage of sales.

[BROADWAYFAN3]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 10:06am

Tiny - your in the know. Whats up with that. I tried to get tickets for several performances for friends and they were basically sold out every day