Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/10/24

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Terrible numbers for Tammy, MHY and Swept away. What a wonderful world had a better week but it won't last long either. Tammy had 58% of attendance last week, that's Bad Cinderella numbers. It'll be gone after Thanksgiving



Does anyone know why Death becomes her only had 6 shows?

Updated On: 11/12/24 at 03:50 PM

MYE got the reviews that they wanted (especially from the NYT) but you can't escape the fact that they just are not filling the theater. I get that this was press week and they were probably comping a lot of tickets (which would decrease the average ticket price), but you can't escape the fact that there are a lot of unsold seats every week. And when the show spends at around $700k just on operating costs each week, they're bleeding money. If the reviews don't turn things around rapidly, they're toast.

IdinaBellFoster said: "How on earth is their weekly operating costs 700K? Is it all of the additionaltechnical elements somehow?"

Someone noted that 700-750k as the basic weekly cost is the new norm for most shows.

IdinaBellFoster said: "How on earth is their weekly operating costs 700K? Is it all of the additionaltechnical elements somehow?"

It's more than this. The cost is not the cast.

TAMMY is toast. Honestly shocked but not surprised.

I never really thought of Veterans' Day as a key holiday week, but several shows really did well.

Sunset is really a runaway train at this point. I don't see the "controversy" having a material affect with grosses at that level. As others have already said, days are numbered for Tammy and MHE, unless the latter picks up steam after the raves it got. Wonderful World may be that show that opens in the fall that limps along to to the spring. Maybe not though. Either way, it's not long for this world either. If only Suffs could have pulled in sustained numbers like this, but alas. Everything else is pretty status quo.

My question though is are there enough shows waiting in the wings to fill this many potentially empty theaters in the Spring? I know we will have a few out of nowhere shows announced, but as far as new musicals go I wonder.

My question though is are there enough shows waiting in the wings to fill this many potentially empty theaters in the Spring? I know we will have a few out of nowhere shows announced, but as far as new musicals go I wonder."

Yes. Like MHE and Tammy, there are other shows ready to go from previous regional, european or Korean runs. A few already booked into the theaters for the shows listed.

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Supposedly Glengarry Glen Ross is taking the Belasco next..."

So one Jeffrey Richards show closes to make room for another?

Re: running cost comments, Maybe Happy costs $750,000 per week to run. When a Broadway show is selling that badly, royalty participants and service providers are asked to waive weekly fees (sometimes even actors) to get their salaries down to the weekly minimum. I don’t know how much money that could save them tho, because every show is different and some of those costs can’t budge…maybe they can reduce by $75K? $100K? Waivers also can’t go on indefinitely.

It seems extremely doubtful to me that any production can pull itself out of this kind of hole short of selling out at full price starting immediately and continuing to do so for weeks or months.

It is accurate but it took the tony award for best musical. Same with Fun Home. After the excitement of the reviews has died down a little I’m starting to wonder if it’s literally impossible to resolve this problem. If they don’t run out of money the theatre owners will almost certainly suggest kindly or not so kindly by the end of the year they need to leave soon to make way for another show in early spring because the opportunity cost would be too high.

It would be amazing feat to suddenly see things turn around but the kind of volume of interest they’d need to translate into full price ticket sales immediately would far exceed the reach of theatre reviews I guess. It’s not even that the show is ambiguously plodding along and we’re wondering if it could go either way it’s actually haemorrhaging…..

binau said: "Can anyone name a single show that has ever turned around these kinds of grosses without winning the Tony Award for Best Musical? I just can't recall it ever happening....not in the last 17 years at least....

I remember next to normal had a slow start but it didn't have these costs..."

I posed the same Q a couple weeks ago and haven’t got a good answer. To my knowledge it is basically unheard of for a fall musical of comparable cost to start this low and last through June (never mind recouping). Even Gentleman’s Guide, which was labeled as “the little show that could” started stronger.

If this had opened on April 10th it would be a different story.

This will be a test of the power of the NYT.