Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/11

[Rob]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:52pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/11/2009 in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:53pm

Still pretty good numbers.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:13pm

Yay SPRING AWAKENING!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:19pm

Whoa, Chicago, Mary Poppins, and Shrek all almost twenty percent down? What's up with that? Attendance is still good at all three, though.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:32pm

You need to look at the grosses Schmerg.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:42pm

CHICAGO is a tourist attraction, MARY POPPINS is a tourist attraction, SHREK is a tourist attraction with the latter two aimed at families. Now that tourists are gone and the break is over, those grosses were pretty much expected to drop.

But this was a very strong week. Glad that GYPSY went out with a HUGE bang.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:51pm

Not as bad as I had thought it might be. Let's see what next week brings.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 6:32pm

I think the average ticket price is extremely telling. While Spring Awakening was full, it's gross wasn't exceptionally high and its average ticket price was 70 bucks. I imagine a lot of tweens are rushing.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 6:57pm

The dollar drop for Poppins is a lot scarier than the percentage drop.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:09pm

good attendance for avenue q and in the heights

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:13pm

It's sad when I barely have to scroll down to look at the grosses.

But good for those shows still on there, good thing Gypsy went out with a bang (somewhat) And In The Heights stayed strong. I think it will be going strong for another month. People will be going to see Lin.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:23pm

I'm pretty sure In The Heights will be going strong for another couple months at least. It has great of mouth and it isn't the kind of show that would die without the original cast.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:24pm

Sorry, typo. Great word of mouth**

[rjjn]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 8:44pm

I thought these were surprisingly good considering it's the week after the holidays.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 3:15am

Here's something to discuss:

GYPSY's grosses are puzzling. The show took about 2 weeks of previews to finally make a gross above it's reported $600K break even. Then on the strength of the rave reviews and later Tony awards for the stars it had a great summer. The after Labour Day it dipped a bit but was generally holding up until November when it plunged. Christmas week was especially weak.
It rebounded with the holidays and ended with two very solid weeks.

Any thoughts on why the big drop in November (which likely led to the decision to move the closing date up from March 1) and also did the producers do the right thing cutting the last 7 weeks off the run.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 4:59am

Well...they were paying the bills for the most part, but were barely making a dent in the initial investment.

They saw the writing on the wall with the economy and decided to STOP losing money since the next weeks would most likely look like November or worse.