Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/21/24

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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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Not bad for Sweeney with the understudies!

Is this the first full week Back to the Future came up short of seven figures?

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.

Days of Wine and Roses, sigh :(

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.

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.

Updated On: 1/23/24 at 03:07 PM

How is Hadestown still hanging on? Low running costs? No one wants the theater?

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.

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.

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.

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"?

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.

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.