Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/22/17

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Up for the week by attendance was: WICKED (5.3%), THE FRONT PAGE (4.5%), CATS (3.4%), IN TRANSIT (3.0%), WAITRESS (2.3%), JITNEY (1.0%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (0.2%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: ON YOUR FEET! (-12.5%), PARAMOUR (-12.0%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-7.9%), THE PRESENT (-7.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-6.2%), CHICAGO (-4.4%), BEAUTIFUL (-3.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.1%), THE LION KING (-0.7%), ALADDIN (-0.4%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-0.2%),

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These are really good January numbers on the whole.

Dear Evan Hansen was the only show to have a significant increase in its grosses other than Oh Hello which was in its closing week, and it had the third highest average ticket price on Broadway, a hefty $136+, behind only Hamilton and Book of Mormon. I guess it's pretty secure financially. If it's doing these numbers in January, the summer numbers should be incredible.

Isn't DEH already playing to capacity or almost? So there's not much higher for them to go. Except the ticket cost I guess.

neonlightsxo said: "Isn't DEH already playing to capacity or almost? So there's not much higher for them to go. Except the ticket cost I guess.

Yes, it's playing to full capacity but as you suggest, ticket prices will increase as will the sales of premium tickets. These things will have a significant impact on the grosses for the show.

Updated On: 1/23/17 at 06:24 PM

I would've thought they had recouped before now so who knows.

Waitress may well have recouped. Remember that not everyone in the world finds it necessary to trumpet how much money they make.

I am not sure how one can call a show that accretes its running deficit improving, but In Transit appears to be another one of these lunatics-running-the-asylum shows so it may last long.

Re In Transit, I'd love to see a piece like the one they did on Paul Simon and Steve Martin continually throwing large sums of cash down the Bright Star well. The 1%ers "producing" In Transit must be burning at least twice as much on that bonfire. Imagine the social services that they could fund with that dough.

Art may very well be a worthy cause (whether as worthy as correcting issues of poverty or lack of healthcare or good education is another question); but I wouldn't call In Transit art.

newintown said: "Re In Transit, I'd love to see a piece like the one they did on Paul Simon and Steve Martin continually throwing large sums of cash down the Bright Star well. The 1%ers "producing" In Transit must be burning at least twice as much on that bonfire. Imagine the social services that they could fund with that dough."





Who's "they" ??

"Who's "they" ??"

Janet B. Rosen, Marvin S. Rosen, Robert F. Smith, Jeff Hecktman, Ed Rendell/Kenneth Jarin, Manny Medina, Michael S. Falk/Annie Falk, Karen Mehiel, Steven M. Goldman/Arlene L. Goldman, and Edgar Bronfman, Jr./Benjamin Bronfman.

See earlier posts in related threads re: their collected wealth.

Pronouns are tricky things...

"But again....you can't tell people how to spend their money."

Who's telling anybody anything? You appear to mistake a moral opinion for some sort of demand for legislation. There's nothing unusual about believing that it's more admirable for the wealthy to support social programs than to spend millions on a questionable commercial venture that's failing because no one much wants it.

If you believe the latter does the world as much good as the former, it's just my opinion that your values may be skewed (in a very popular American way). But they're your values, and you're free to keep them.

Updated On: 1/24/17 at 09:56 AM