Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/15/17

How profitable are shows like Chicago and Phantom now? They recoup long ago, I'm just curious if they will ever fathom closing. Would it take In Transit attendance numbers?

TheSassySam- the weekly gross would have to be below their running cost.

This New York Times article from 2012 says that Phantom's weekly nut was around $600,000. I can't imagine it has gone up too much since then. What worried me about Phantom closing was the Harry Potter show. I thought if those producers said they wanted the Majestic, that they would get it. Thankfully that's not the case. As for Chicago, as long as the Weisslers are still actively involved in producing it, it won't close.

Glad to see Oh Hello recoup before it closes.

"As for Chicago, as long as the Weisslers are still actively involved in producing it, it won't close. "

If the show consistently loses money for a period of time, they will absolutely not keep it open notwithstanding how active they are. To this point they have cobbled out enough revenue to make it viable, but that could change, almost on a dime.

They're for the week ending January 15, so, no.

RippedMan said: "I'm so curious about financials. I'm surprised it took "Oh Hello" that long to recoup? It's been pulling in great numbers its whole run. It's only 2 actors - who are presumably working for fairly cheap - no big costume pieces, no need for a big crew, etc. No understudies. Why would it cost so much?



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I'm assuming Mulaney and Kroll didn't come cheap.

I also doubt that Kroll and Mullaney are working for cheap; neither is what anyone would call wealthy, with limited television success up to now.

And although they wrote the show, it technically belongs to Patrick Catullo, Marcia Goldberg, Barbara Whitman, Marc Platt, Pierce Cravens, James G. Kernochan, Jonathan Reinis, Benjamin Simpson & Joseph Longthorne/Shira Friedman, Triptyk Studios, Bellanca Smigel Rutter, Nathan Vernon, Mike LaVoie and Comedy Central, the producers.

They're getting star salaries. And even if their weekly nut is only ~/300k on a sliding scale, it still takes a little bit of time to recoup the $2.9m if youre only grossing 500k/600k a week

GreenGables said: "They're getting star salaries. And even if their weekly nut is only ~/300k on a sliding scale, it still takes a little bit of time to recoup the $2.9m if youre only grossing 500k/600k a week"

Some followups to this:

1. Based on those numbers the net gross minus the nut is roughly $3.3mil.

2. An announcement of recoupment is not something that is automatic or required, so under the best of circumstances (as with all financial announcements) there is some lead time. It is not (nor could it be) announced in real time.

3. Based on these numbers, it most likely would not have recouped before the last week.

4. There will likely be some additional funds flowing to the producers and investors post hoc when deposits, bonds and excess reserves are returned.

haterobics said: "RippedMan said: "Why would it cost so much? "

Too much tuna.





Best line of the year.. Kudos.....

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