Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/11/15

[Rob]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/11/2015 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: CONSTELLATIONS (1.4%),

Down for the week by attendance was: CHICAGO (-24.7%), MAMMA MIA! (-17.4%), KINKY BOOTS (-16.9%), ON THE TOWN (-16.7%), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (-16.5%), LES MISÉRABLES (-14.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-12.9%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-12.0%), A DELICATE BALANCE (-11.7%), BEAUTIFUL (-10.9%), IF/THEN (-10.6%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-8.4%), DISGRACED (-8.0%), MATILDA (-7.9%), THE LAST SHIP (-7.0%), JERSEY BOYS (-6.2%), WICKED (-6.0%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-5.6%), THE RIVER (-5.3%), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (-4.2%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-2.3%), THE LION KING (-1.9%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (-1.9%), THE ELEPHANT MAN (-1.6%), CABARET (-0.8%), ROCK OF AGES (-0.5%),

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[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:06pm

Rough drop for On the Town.

[Pootie2]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:14pm

Ouch for everything...

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:18pm

The full-price ticket was not purchased for many shows. Interesting to note the acceptable gross for "The Last Ship," the first designated "final" week of Sting's tenure; yet this week the show is incredibly unsold. I'm going tomorrow, and the entire mezz is available. It's easy to understand the closing notice.

[newintown]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:18pm

I wonder if the Honeymoon producers will try to do massive papering this week prior to the Thursday opening?

[Mamamia Sammy2]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:26pm

Whoa

[philly03]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:39pm

"I wonder if the Honeymoon producers will try to do massive papering this week prior to the Thursday opening?"

Week after week I am baffled by this. Its not a sell-out smash, and its not making any money. And its been open for months now. What is magically going to change this week?

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:44pm

I'm honestly shocked that a show that had a recent out-of-town tryout decided to do 2 months of previews ending in the dead of winter. What on earth was the impetus for that? It doesn't even seem like they're really making changes to the show at this point and they also have to be losing a ton of money and I don't think the reviews are going to change that. I found the show really fun in the theater and Rob McClure is charming but the whole thing seems really illogical.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:44pm

^ Well I would imagine the producers are hoping the reviews will.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:46pm

perfectlymarvelous, Beautiful used this model last year and it worked well for them. But Honeymoon ain't Beautiful.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:51pm

Yeah regardless of content, Beautiful was also grossing well over 50% of potential that entire time.

I would love these producers to get in touch with Frank Wildhorn!

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:52pm

I believe the strategy with a January opening is to use the fact that it is a brand new show to its advantage to get through January and Febraury so they can be open longer and make more money before it closes, assuming it will close in January, which is highly doubt it will last that long.

[brucebossa]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:53pm

"I wonder if the Honeymoon producers will try to do massive papering this week prior to the Thursday opening?"

I saw the Sunday matinee yesterday and I was in the Rear Mezz on TDF and I did not see one empty seat. It has to be heavily papered/discounted if it did under $400K and there were no empty seats. At least at that show - I think critics may have started going yesterday so they want it full. I also noticed that the audience was into it at the beginning then seemed to drift in quietness. But then came back for Danza's scenes (song with the ukulele and the tap dance numbers) and went pretty wild at the end for him. Although a lot of people were also rushing out at curtain call. Not sure what any of what I witnessed means!!!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:55pm

Yes, press performances for Honeymoon have started. Also there *were* empty seats if they did ~78% capacity.

[brucebossa]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 3:59pm

Honestly - I did not see one at the Sunday matinee - and I looked at every corner! however, I am sure that the average for the week is 78% - probably lots of seats on the week nights were empty.

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:21pm

From last week's numbers, $7.3 million was for shows that closed. Of the continuing shows, several had extra performances the prior week. That amounted for about $0.8 million last week. When you factor all that out of lthe prior week's numbers, total revenue is down about 8.7%, versus 43.7%.

I have been surprised that Honeymoon has not done better. But I recall that A Genteleman's Guy started slow too, and many people predicticted doom there. Then it got a boost from reviews, then another from Tony nods, then still another from Tony wins. So I think there is still a chance for Honeymoon, following that model. Of course, I realize that Honeymoon will have to hang in longer for any Tony bump than Gentleman did, so that is working against it. We'll see.

[ggersten]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:25pm

Wicked revenue dropped over a million dollars.
(and that means nothing other than it decreased a million dollars- i doubt the producers are now pondering a closing notice)

[philly03]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:29pm

"But I recall that A Genteleman's Guy started slow too, and many people predicticted doom there."

Yes -- but Honeymoon is shedding at least 200-400k a week. Gentleman's guide was making at least 50% of gross potential, and actually opened with a normal preview period that allowed their reviews to get them through the winter. Honeymoon already has lost a ton, and who knows what the reviews will look like or if they will even affect it too much.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:35pm

JMPlayer6, you're missing the part where Honeymoon came in with a rave from Ben Brantley. Gentleman's did not. So a "review bump" is much less likely here.

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:38pm

I am not predicting that Honeymoon will make it. I am just saying that it still has a shoot, that there is a chance---for now. It is clearly an uphill battle, to be sure. That was my point.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:41pm

Yeah, "Beautiful" was roughly on the same timetable last season, but did very nicely in previews; I had trouble getting good seats and ended up going Thanksgiving night. I think the two shows otherwise have a sum total of zero in common, however. No one is standing around the TKTS line saying "But I hear Brantley just loved it a Papermill," the words Brantley and Papermill not in the general theatergoing lexicon, at the line or otherwise.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 4:41pm

"Of course, I realize that Honeymoon will have to hang in longer for any Tony bump than Gentleman did, so that is working against it."

Gentleman's Guide open in November, so Honeymoon wouldn't be hanging in longer.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 6:29pm

Obviously Honeymoon is heavily papering and yes it is press week but the funny thing as those that saw it this weekend all reported it looking sold out so I guess it was playing most of the week to 1/2 houses. This show has never caught on and week after week during the endless 2 months of previews losing money with the lowest average price ticket of any show playing at $54.97... the grosses have been terrible. What will the positive reviews basically do at this point not much as people are not interested for some reason in seeing it. I doubt the producers will keep it open and predict it will probably close at the end of the month. Finally seeing it Wed so we shall see?

Updated On: 1/12/15 at 06:29 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 6:55pm

"What will the positive reviews basically do at this point not much as people are not interested for some reason in seeing it."

A lot of people wait until the review before they even think about whether to see a show, or that is how they even are reminded it is playing. Most people aren't tracking its weekly grosses or preview reception...

I'm seeing it tomorrow, as I usually wait until the end of previews to check things out. Except JCM in Hedwig. That I'm going to the first show, heh.

[mc1227]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 7:17pm

These are some big drops but my biggest surprise is The Book of Mormon. Has it ever dropped this much even in a post holiday period? I expected It's Only a Play to drop due to the departure of Lane but I understand Broderick was out sick for several shows as well, so numbers not bad considering.

I feel Honeymoon can find an audience if it can hang on a few weeks. I expect their reviews to be mixed, but not damaging. It's a fun show with some weak points, but entertaining. I do think they should have waited to preview until now and open the end of a February. I'll keep my fingers crossed.