Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:06pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/21/2024 in BroadwayWorld'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 (% of capacity) was: APPROPRIATE (11.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (5.8%), WICKED (5.8%), HARMONY (3.2%), HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO (0.4%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SPAMALOT (-17.2%), DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (-16.1%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-11.4%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-10.5%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-8.9%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-8.3%), PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (-7.3%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-5.5%), CHICAGO (-4.9%), HADESTOWN (-4.5%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (-3.1%), ALADDIN (-3.1%), & JULIET (-2.7%), HAMILTON (-2.5%), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (-2.4%), SIX (-1.6%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1%), GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! (-0.6%), THE LION KING (-0.5%),
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#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:11pm
Hello January.
Very odd seeing SWEENEY at 90% capacity but making only a third of what they were because of the interim leads
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:12pm
Not bad for Sweeney with the understudies!
Is this the first full week Back to the Future came up short of seven figures?
Chaz Hands
Understudy Joined: 5/3/23
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:27pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Not bad forSweeneywith the understudies!
Is this the first full weekBack to the Futurecame up short of seven figures?"
I think so. But their weekly nut is 980k, so they almost broke even for the week, which isn’t bad for January.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:35pm
More or less expected even with the Broadway week promos. 1.) It was freezing all week. 2.) Forecast called for two snow storms. Tuesday into Wednesday and then another storm on Friday. Neither did much but I'm sure it was enough to make people stay home.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:43pm
I said the last few weeks that we were still dealing with the end of the holiday break and weren't really into "real" winter yet. Well, now we're definitely in real winter!
Great week for Prayer for the French Republic though! I had a feeling that that would be a word-of-mouth hit that would grow over the course of its run and hopefully it continues to do so!
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:50pm
Days of Wine and Roses, sigh :(
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 1:51pm
Holy moly, Appropriate! I think that's 2nd Stage's second-best week ever (the previous was a few thousand more for the final week of Take Me Out)
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 2:03pm
Multiple factors at play here explaining all the drops: cold weather and snow keeping people at home; Shucked closing and Groban and Ashford's departure affecting Broadway's total gross; the start of the 2-for-1 deals.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 2:45pm
If a musical like Harmony can’t even run with a gross of over half a million a week, it really makes me wonder how some of these other musicals in the spring will do. What is Harmonys running cost. It has a medium size cast and small band. There’s not many bells and whistles in the show.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 3:07pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Not bad forSweeneywith the understudies!
Is this the first full weekBack to the Futurecame up short of seven figures?"
Re your first point, I am guessing that that bodes well for Tveit / Foster. Re your second point, it hovered at $1.0M 5 or 6 weeks. It will be very interesting to see if summer and holiday weeks / week-ends are sufficient to keep this running, if it really does break even at $980K. Have to admit that I have little/no interest in seeing it.
Chaz Hands
Understudy Joined: 5/3/23
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 3:15pm
Jarethan said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Not bad forSweeneywith the understudies!
Is this the first full weekBack to the Futurecame up short of seven figures?"
Re your first point, I am guessing that that bodes well for Tveit / Foster. Re your second point, it hovered at $1.0M 5 or 6 weeks. It will be very interesting to see if summer and holiday weeks / week-ends are sufficient to keep this running, if it really does break even at $890K. Have to admit that I have little/no interest in seeing it."
Per Broadway Journal, the breakeven is 980k! You switched the first 2 digits haha! So to make money, they need to be hitting at least a million every week. It’ll be interesting to see how it does this spring against all the new musicals coming in!!
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 3:56pm
How is Hadestown still hanging on? Low running costs? No one wants the theater?
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 3:59pm
Chaz Hands said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Not bad forSweeneywith the understudies!
Is this the first full weekBack to the Futurecame up short of seven figures?"
I think so. But their weekly nut is 980k, so they almost broke even for the week, which isn’t bad for January."
I’m going to guess and say the running cost may have decreased quite a bit since they aren’t paying the presumably higher salaries of Groban and Ashford. It still probably falls under their nut but I can bet they’ve got quite a bit of cushion for all those $2+ million weeks
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 4:07pm
quizking101 said: "Chaz Hands said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Not bad forSweeneywith the understudies!
Is this the first full weekBack to the Futurecame up short of seven figures?"
I think so. But their weekly nut is 980k, so they almost broke even for the week, which isn’t bad for January."
I’m going to guess and say the running cost may have decreased quite a bit since they aren’t paying the presumably higher salaries of Groban and Ashford. It still probably falls under their nut but I can bet they’ve got quite a bit of cushion for all those $2+ million weeks"
My segue from BTTF to Sweeney was not clear. Someone posted that BTTF had a $980 breakeven. I would imagine that -- minus its stars -- ST came pretty close to breaking even, which led me to conclude that Tveit / Sutton may do okay, which I am hoping, as I want to see that with them more than any of the new musicals (excl. The Notebook). I need it to be open into late May for that to work.
rbfost
Swing Joined: 11/18/14
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/23/24 at 11:08pm
hearthemsing22 said: "How is Hadestown still hanging on? Low running costs? No one wants the theater?"
...Am I missing something? Hadestown has been sold out the last few weeks; why would they close when they're selling out?
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 2:14am
Chaz Hands said: "Per Broadway Journal, the breakeven is 980k! You switched the first 2 digits haha! So to make money, they need to be hitting at least a million every week. It’ll be interesting to see how it does this spring against all the new musicals coming in!!"
Remember that the grosses are expressed as gross grosses. The production only gets the net gross which is roughly 90%.If the "breakeven" is $980k, then the gross needs to be approximately $1.089mil to break even.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 8:21am
rbfost said: "hearthemsing22 said: "How is Hadestown still hanging on? Low running costs? No one wants the theater?"
...Am I missing something? Hadestown has been sold out the last few weeks; why would they close when they're selling out?"
If Hadestown continues to have interesting casting for replacements, it may not be “in jeopardy” as some on the board originally thought. I will be curious about the show’s grosses once Lola and Ani hop on the Hadestown train. Hoping they get either a bump or stay consistent.
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 10:25am
rbfost said: "hearthemsing22 said: "How is Hadestown still hanging on? Low running costs? No one wants the theater?"
...Am I missing something? Hadestown has been sold out the last few weeks; why would they close when they're selling out?"
Look at their grosses! I am not pulling this out of thin air. I'm looking at the numbers.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 11:01am
Have we ever had a weekly grosses thread that hasn’t turned into a “when is Hadestown closing” thread?
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 11:16am
Jordan Catalano said: "Have we ever had a weekly grosses thread that hasn’t turned into a “when is Hadestown closing” thread?"
It's the new "When Is Kinky Boots Closing" or "When Is Phantom Closing" or "When Is Chicago Closing"?
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 12:51pm
I think the death watch phenomenon interests some folks because it focuses on some endlessly entertaining topics, like greed (or the lack thereof), wealth (or the lack thereof), and of course backseat driving.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 1:47pm
Just wait till the weeks after the Tony noms or awards, and then again as summer comes to end, and focus turns to the dozen or so shows that have been limping along since their spring openings.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 2:08pm
Why is everyone so pessimistic. Hopefully if the work is good, they will sell.
OhHiii
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/16
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24
Posted: 1/24/24 at 2:18pm
Yes, there will be shows of the new lot that are coming up this Spring that will limp through the Tonys. The difference with the new shows coming in, they will very likely not have the deep pockets some of the shows we saw stick around long past when they should have closed based on the numbers (Some Like It Hot was produced by its landlord, so the money there worked way differently). So shows won't be sticking around long past the Tonys in a bigger way than we saw last season, I think.
It's also worth noting that last season did see a new unmitigated hit productions in &Juliet and Sweeney Todd too if we're counting revivals. They aren't exactly apples to apples comparison given it's known pop music and a widely known Sondheim show, but the point stands. It's worth reminding everyone that every single season yields a maximum of 1-2 musicals that can be considered successes and run well. It's easy to say the market has not recovered post-Covid and everything is destined to fail. It hasn't recovered entirely, not by a long shot, but the obituaries for Broadway as a whole being written are hyperbolic.
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