Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/3

[Rob]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:12pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/3/2010 in BroadwayWorld.com'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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:14pm

Whoa! NIGHT MUSIC hit $1 million. And had the highest attendance of the week.

Great week, as expected. Updated On: 1/4/10 at 03:14 PM

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:28pm

Yay for "Shrek" for going out with such a big bang! Wow, "Wicked" is still breaking records after 6 years.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:29pm

What a great week for many shows! Since I've been a member of BWW, I've noticed one show that has survived the highs and lows of the Broadway theatre world. To me, "Chicago" is a survivor. Mon congrats to the cast and crew! from RC in Austin, Texas

Updated On: 1/4/10 at 03:29 PM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:30pm

SO happy to see Ragtime's attendance go up.

[jeffmiele]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:31pm

Hiar had a nice week as well

[JP2]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:33pm

What the hell is up with Wicked as of late? Did someone die?

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:38pm

Ahh! Seeing Shrek going out with a bang TOTALLY just made my week.

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:45pm

Wow...great jump for HAIR! And Night Music breaking $1 million! How terrific! And I know Present Laughter only had one performance that week, but it is still funny/weird to see $88,000 on the boards.

If only Ragtime had these numbers last month...

Good week overall! I guess we'll be seeing pigs flying in the air the day Wicked closes.

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:40pm

Confused over the "Wicked" comment. It did 100% which is all it can do with no standing room.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:43pm

^^ ...it's making OVER $2 MILLION second week in a row!

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:46pm

Congrats to Shrek on going out with a bang.

Seriously, where were those grosses/people for Ragtime when they weren't closing?!

[Brick]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:58pm

Ave ticket price for Wicked is $146?! And that's the average price?

I'm sorry that's just ridiculous. I don't know why, but I just noticed it. I thought, "Wait, how is show that's been running at capacity for years breaking new records?"

I understand the cost of tickets is a complex issue, including Unions, advertising costs, real estate, etc. But producers of new productions set tickets prices based several factors, one being going rate of product.

With hits like these charging more and more for premium tickets, I don't see how the average cost of a new (non-hit, yet) show won't keep creeping up.

Sorry for the rant. I just hate seeing theatre will itself the way of opera, and price itself far out of relevancy.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:58pm

I'm happy for South Pacific, it's poised to become the longest running revival of a Rogers and Hammerstein musical, surpassing the '90's The King and I.

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:59pm

Good week. I echo everyone's comments on SHREK and RAGTIME, and I'm thrilled to see NEXT TO NORMAL over $500K for the first time ever!

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:00pm

Now we can see why the producers extended for Ragtime.
These are the numbers that Finian's Rainbow needed from the beginning to secure a great run on Broadway, maybe the smaller house was definitely needed for this to be a great run, too.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:04pm

Ave ticket price for Wicked is $146?! And that's the average price?

That's the holiday pricing. Most shows raise their prices this particular week. Wicked's regular (non-premium) top ticket price is $126 (slightly higher on weekends).

[Brick]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 7:13pm

Point taken.

And I think I was just hungry.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 7:19pm

Point taken.

And I think I was just hungry.

No problem. Hope you found some food. They also have the most seats to sell, so of course they're going to gross more.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 7:29pm

"In The Heights" was only slightly above 80. I wonder why this show didn't get a higher holiday bump?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:48pm

with this week being so much busier, why didn't Ragtime choose to do 9 performances this week?? They could of done Mon-Wed @ 8pm, Wed & Thur @ 2pm, Fri-DARK, Sat @ 2pm & 8pm, Sun @ 2pm & 7pm. They might have broke the 1 million dollar mark in grosses if they did that and might have remained open after Jan. 10.

And I'm loving the numbers by Hair, Chicago, Next 2 Normal & Mary Poppins. Plus 11 shows over 1 million(with Wicked over 2 million). Of course, next week some of these numbers will be cut in half.

[Barney Stinson]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 10:32pm

N2N did 9 shows - which is the reason for the high gross, fyi. Obviously, a smart move.

Can't really be happy or sad for any shows based on these numbers. Hopefully the dropoff over the next few weeks isn't too drastic.

[Eleah]

Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:07am

Ragtime bringing in the numbers!!!! Lets hope it stays open even longer because no shows are really planned for that area for atleast a couple of months

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:11am

For the last and final time... RAGTIME IS CLOSING ON JAN 10 - IT WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.