Broadway Grosses This Week: Worse than Pitiful!

[Benzy92]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:42pm

Everyone needs to go support Broadway after reading these grosses!
Playbill Grosses

[magruder]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:46pm

It's February! What do you expect? (Even Wicked and 700 Sundays didn't sell out, though they were both very close). Though the grosses are not great (and Brooklyn is in dangerous territory), everyone else seems to at least be at their break-evens or better, which is what it's about at this time of year. And a very nice final week for Gem!

Updated On: 2/7/05 at 05:46 PM

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:51pm

looks like Brooklyn may not make it....darn


MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:54pm

wow good vibrations actually took a bounce back up

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:55pm

Yes, aside from Brooklyn (47%; $194,000 gross), and maybe Rent (52.1%; $243,000 gross), everybody else is doing fine for this time of the year.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:55pm

They don't seem that terrible - most of the shows are obviously at a lower capacity than last week, but not by much. It's not as dramatic as the title of this thread, it makes it seem like there's a crisis.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:57pm

I think it is interesting that Good Vibrations had about the same percentage as The Producers, Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, and more than Rent and La Cage...

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 5:59pm

The Producers also had 700 more seats to fill, Beauty and the Beast had 500 same with La Cage, so really you can't compare the percentages

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:00pm

Good Vibrations was heavily papered last week since the critics were there and it was opening week. Check the numbers in a week or two to get a more accurate idea of how it's actually doing.

Updated On: 2/7/05 at 06:00 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:12pm

Looks like Brooklyn should be put on a suicide watch with those numbers

Amazing that POTO beats DRS. Little Women seems to be holding its own, at least for now.

Good Vibrations may be getting those who like to go to train wrecks & car crashes. My wife said she would see it with the right discounted deal. How is that for supporting Broadway ?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:16pm

That is NOTHING! Its been t 40% across the board one week.

BUT - this is the FIRST time that WICKED has dropped from 100% !!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:19pm

It was just the first week of previews for DRS and they won't begin their major advertising push until after the reviews come out in a few weeks. It's going to do very well.

[GirlfriendFromCanada]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:29pm

When producers paper a show, does the face value of a ticket go into the grosses? So when say, the house is 75% full, and 10% is papered, are the grosses based on the paying 65%, or the full 75% of tickets despite the fact that the money came from the producers own pockets? Or does it just affect the average ticket cost? Updated On: 2/7/05 at 06:29 PM

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:30pm

Good Vibrations ave ticket price was 61 not bad for a show that shoulud be flpping with the reviews it got. With those stats it may surprise everyone and stay longer then expected (or probably should).

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:32pm

:*(

[Derek]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:38pm

I cant believe Brooklyn, I (as well as the audience) thought the show was very good...i hope it bounces back around spring...i hope it at least makes it till the summer

[Phantom2]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 7:43pm

The weekly grosses always reminds me of a day at the races.

Updated On: 2/7/05 at 07:43 PM

Posted: 2/7/05 at 7:50pm

We were at Brooklyn on Friday evening and the gentleman behind the "bar" asked an usher what the receipts were like and he said "so-so". The "bar" guy said "well, it's the worst week of the year". Why is super-bowl week the worst week? BTW----I really enjoyed Brooklyn (again)----I think the talent in the show is amazing (year---the story is a throwaway, but...) The audience just loved it----I hope it does better.

[Jwei123]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 7:53pm

the february slums--so typical

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 7:53pm

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" did very well for its first week.

I think it's time for "Brooklyn" to go back to Paris. Free up the Plymouth so that "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" can transfer.

[little_sally]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 7:57pm

Agreed melissa errico fan!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:00pm

I think NOT Melissa..somethingsomething..
It's only the beginning of Brooklyn, It is not going anywhere!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:01pm

I've never heard that Super Bowl week is the worst week of the year for Broadway -- it only really effects Sunday matinee business, if anything. Any week (December through March) with a huge snow storm is the worst week of the year by far for Broadway and we had that already a couple of weeks ago with that storm that wiped out business across the board from Friday through Sunday (cross your fingers we don't get another one).

Last week was OK for most shows -- not great, not bad. No tourists, but with weather in the 40s and 50s and no snow, most shows did better than break even, except for Brooklyn.

Updated On: 2/7/05 at 08:01 PM

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:02pm

The only way that I think "Brooklyn" will make it to Tony time is if the vainglorious porducers keep sinking money into it rather than admit defeat.

[Benzy92]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:07pm

Many shows didnt break even this week: Brooklyn, Beauty (or very close.. 450,000 enough?), Chicago (340,000 CANT be enough), Good Vibrations (reported to be 375,000 a week needed), La Cage prob. just above break even at 443,000, Rent (275,000 is break even Variety reported).. that means around 6 shows REALLY struggled last week.. not a "small" number of shows by any means..