Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/18

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Up for the week by attendance was: WAITRESS (7.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.9%), WICKED (3.0%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (2.8%), BEAUTIFUL (1.3%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (0.8%), ANASTASIA (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SCHOOL OF ROCK (-8.0%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (-7.5%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-5.3%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-4.6%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-4.5%), JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (-4.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-4.1%), CHICAGO (-4.0%), THE PARISIAN WOMAN (-3.1%), THE CHILDREN (-1.7%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-1.4%), COME FROM AWAY (-1.3%), METEOR SHOWER (-1.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.1%), ALADDIN (-0.5%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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Waitress

Updated On: 1/22/18 at 03:21 PM

Spongebob makes me so sad!!! It is such a fun exciting show, and has a great message. From what I understand though they were expecting to possibly close up shop over labor day, tix are on sale till then and thats when the palace renovation is supposed to start....If this can last till May, then it should be fine till september, but who knows.

Happy for waitress! wonder why the drop for Bands Visit?

Phantom of London said: "someone needs to start a thread, what next for the Palace?"

And after someone replies: renovation, what else would there be to talk about?

Wow Waitress! This is their highest week ever. Impressive that it happened in the middle of January, but was expected.

qolbinau said: "If Once On This Island cannot make a dollar at this level they chose the wrong theatre. Are we sure they are in trouble? I haven’t seen it but I thought it was a small show. Didn’t this once play at the Booth? I know it won’t be anywhere near as small as n2n and I have never seen a lower nut for a musical but that nut was around 250k 8 years ago (**** time flies). So if the producing was right maybe OOTI is doing fine?"

The producing is not right but (contrary to what some seem to think) at the current level it would be breaking even. Never gonna recoup, but could hang on. Let's see if it keeps up.

qolbinau said: "If Once On This Island cannot make a dollar at this level they chose the wrong theatre. Are we sure they are in trouble? I haven’t seen it but I thought it was a small show. Didn’t this once play at the Booth? I know it won’t be anywhere near as small as n2n and I have never seen a lower nut for a musical but that nut was around 250k 8 years ago (**** time flies). So if the producing was right maybe OOTI is doing fine?"



This production has a larger cast and production than the original.

The original run barely made a profit back in the day with a cast of 11 and very simple set and costumes.

Spongebob - ouch! It’s pretty clear this show isn’t going to make it. I was doubtful about this show all along, but ironically now I want to see it before it closes. I’ll be in NYC in 2 weeks. Looks like I’ll have no problem getting tickets if I can see two shows over the two nights we’ll be in NYC which leads me to....

OOTI which I think is at least staying stable. This is the show I want to see the most.

My travel companion and I agreed to only see Broadway musicals we both haven’t seen before. This will actually be his first experience seeing a Broadway show (he’s seen Wicked on tour). I’ve seen all but four musicals currently on Broadway. And it’s either these two or A Bronx Tale and Anastasia.

So TKTS here we come in two weeks. Now, OOTI & Spongebob, don’t close before we get there.

Updated On: 1/23/18 at 08:42 PM

qolbinau said: "But I still wonder who budgeted this show and what the plan was. Maybe in reality the budget and running costs blew out from the initial plan because I would have thought any realistic projections of this show’s revenue wouldn’t be far off what it is taking in now. Unless some very overly ambitious person thought they were going to sell a whole theatre’s worth of premium tickets??"

Who: Ken Davenport

What: an incompetent dream


And so the pattern of flops continues.

Updated On: 1/22/18 at 10:40 PM

KINKY BOOTS holding its own in the low-700s is about par for the course for an 8-show week. It's certainly no longer raking the big bucks in like it did with the original cast or upper-tier stunt casting (Wayne Brady, Todrick Hall, Brendon Urie), but I wouldn't necessarily fret quite yet. The lowest it has ever dipped for a normal 8 show week is the low-600s, and if it reaches or goes below that point, then the plug will likely be pulled.

I don't think Jake Shears is turning out to be the awesome stunt casting they hoped it would be, especially considering a large portion of the Scissor Sisters demographic has likely already seen KINKY BOOTS. The real test of this set of stunt casting will be when the girl from Pentatonix joins in two weeks. At that point, I think it can be safely determined if the show either needs to step up its stunt casting or fold after the summertime.