Broadway Grosses: Ouch

Not such a good week.
Check out the link below.
Broadway Grosses: Ouch

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Looks like "Brooklyn" & "Gem Of The Ocean" are headed for the scrap heap. It appears Whoopi has worn out her welcome. Good thing Dracula & Bombay are closing.

There will be a ton of cut rate offerings for shows in the next 3 months & we intend to take full advantage of them

I want to see , in no particular order

1. Spamalot
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Little Women ( for my wife)

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I think Spamalot will be the next $1,000,000, 100% show, probably the only one this season. I've been holding out for discounts, come on give us a break! We're big fans. How about a one day sale? Anything?

Actually, the holidays are far and away the BEST time for Broadway, with all the tourists in town. January and February are the hardest times for all the shows in town when even certified hits are known to struggle (and struggling shows shut down altogether).

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If only I was a tourist. **cries again**

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Brooklyn's weekly cost is not high at all like other musicals... But look at other shows - (almost) everything is down.. (-31%,-19%,-17%) including Little Women that just started at the..
Virgina! *getting a little shop flashback*

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Well, Little Women is just getting started. Once word of mouth begins, I bet it will go up.

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Little Women is performing pretty respectably in previews. It did $505,007 last week, with a decent capacity figure of 77.4% (in a 1,200 seat house), and a healthy average ticket price of $66.73, sorta in the neighborhood of Chicago, La Cage and Fiddler. For a yet unknown show, it's actually exceeding what I thought it would do in previews.

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Updated On: 12/20/04 at 09:30 PM

Yeah, September a lot of people are going back to school, and February is just a blah winter month. Everyone wants to go to Hawaii.

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But think of all the people that are watching the Rockettes becuase of the Christmas season.

And I speak for myself in saying that I don't have money right now to be able to afford to buy myself a Broadway ticket. (Xmas presents...)

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In general Margo is right in that the holidays are usually good for Broadway, especially the musicals. However, this doesn't mean that every week during the holidays is consistently good. The week after Thanksgiving tends to be a bit slow, and the last full week before Christmas can be a very poor week for box office due to Christmas shopping.

Frankly, I don't think last week was as bad as previous years, but this might be because Christmas is on a Saturday, so there are still a number of shopping days between the end of the week (Sunday) and the holiday.

The period between Christmas and New Years is usually the busiest of the year for Broadway musicals. Plays (like Night Mother) won't be helped as much but should pick up.
Pseudolus