Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/5/25

[Rob]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 12:58pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/5/2025 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: OUR TOWN (5.4%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (1.6%), THE GREAT GATSBY (0.8%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (0.5%), THE LION KING (0.5%), ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE (0.3%), ALADDIN (0.2%), ROMEO + JULIET (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHICAGO (-14.1%), ELF (-13.4%), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (-13%), CULT OF LOVE (-7.1%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-6.7%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-5.8%), GYPSY (-4.2%), SIX (-2.4%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-2%), EUREKA DAY (-1.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.2%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-0.8%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.8%), SUNSET BLVD. (-0.6%), LEFT ON TENTH (-0.5%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-0.1%), SUFFS (-0.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-0.1%),

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[ACL2006]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:03pm

How is A Wonderful World still open? They must be looking to post a closing notice soon?

[Kad]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:10pm

edit: nevermind, info was corrected

Updated On: 1/7/25 at 01:10 PM

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:13pm

Hello winter doldrums, and happy trails to ELF, SUFFS, and BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Nice to see EUREKA DAY picking up a bit of steam!

Despite the numbers starting to plummet, 12 sold-out titles is reassuring (with a handful of near-sellouts as well), and we're still at a $1.79b pace for the full season, a mere 2% off from the 2018-19 all-time high.

 

 

Updated On: 1/7/25 at 01:13 PM

[musikman]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:15pm

Is it still showing for the week ending 12/29 for anyone else, or just me?

[Sauja]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:25pm

Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:25pm

So happy Suffs went out on such a high note. I hope it has a long and happy life beyond Broadway.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems weird that when Stereophonic closes on Sunday that for a few weeks The Outsiders is going to be the only show playing in that little stretch of the six 45th street theaters west of Shubert Alley.

Also, $1.8 billion for Gatsby and they only did 7 performances is just incredible to me.

Updated On: 1/7/25 at 01:25 PM

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:30pm

With those Gatsby $$$, I wonder if/when we'll ever see the ART Gatsby on Broadway.

[Luminaire2]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:46pm

musikman said: "Is it still showing for the week ending 12/29 for anyone else, or just me?"

Same here. 
 

eta:

 

never mind, works now. 

Updated On: 1/7/25 at 01:46 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 1:48pm

musikman said: "Is it still showing for the week ending 12/29 for anyone else, or just me?"

Same. I went to Playbill's site and they have the 1/5 numbers up.

eta: Yes, updated here. Updated On: 1/7/25 at 01:48 PM

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 2:35pm

Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

I have to assume Ephron and Margulies must be giving up/donating their salary and are playing to empty houses to avoid the bad press/career hit of having a play close early. Even though it's not a big expensive show there's no way they're even close to meeting their weekly nut. It's also possible the Shuberts are giving rent relief since they couldn't get another tenant in anyway and don't want their newly renovated theatre deemed a flop house. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 2:42pm

nasty_khakis said: "Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

I have to assume Ephron and Margulies must be giving up/donating their salary and are playing to empty houses to avoid the bad press/career hit of having a play close early. Even though it's not a big expensive show there's no way they're even close to meeting their weekly nut. It's also possible the Shuberts are giving rent relief since they couldn't get another tenant in anyway and don't want their newly renovated theatre deemed a flop house."

Gutenberg recouped and played to sold out houses, the Jones is not a flop house

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 2:43pm

ACL2006 said: "How is A Wonderful World still open? They must be looking to post a closing notice soon?"

This was somehow smuggled into Roundabout's season, right? I bet they aren't paying very much rent. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 2:49pm

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "nasty_khakis said: "Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

I have to assume Ephron and Margulies must be giving up/donating their salary and are playing to empty houses to avoid the bad press/career hit of having a play close early. Even though it's not a big expensive show there's no way they're even close to meeting their weekly nut. It's also possible the Shuberts are giving rent relief since they couldn't get another tenant in anyway and don't want their newly renovated theatre deemed a flop house."

Gutenberg recouped and played to sold out houses, the Jones is not a flop house"

One hit show doesn’t preclude that moniker. HEART OF ROCK & ROLL, OHIO STATE MURDERS, KING LEAR, M. BUTTERFLY, and BRIGHT STAR - all in the last 10 years. All flops that closed early 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 3:10pm

I am thinking Thank God for the non-profits.  At least we can count on regular dramas, even if they don't do that well at the bx office.

I am also thinking that Death Becomes Her's average ticket price for Christmas and New Year's weeks may fill the seats, but they need to go up if the show is going to return its investment on Broadway.  Hopefully its average ticket price, as well as MHE's will go up and MHE will not see too bad a dip in seats sold post holidays.

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 3:14pm

quizking101 said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "nasty_khakis said: "Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

I have to assume Ephron and Margulies must be giving up/donating their salary and are playing to empty houses to avoid the bad press/career hit of having a play close early. Even though it's not a big expensive show there's no way they're even close to meeting their weekly nut. It's also possible the Shuberts are giving rent relief since they couldn't get another tenant in anyway and don't want their newly renovated theatre deemed a flop house."

Gutenberg recouped and played to sold out houses, the Jones is not a flop house"

One hit show doesn’t preclude that moniker. HEART OF ROCK & ROLL, OHIO STATE MURDERS, KING LEAR, M. BUTTERFLY, and BRIGHT STAR - all in the last 10 years. All flops that closed early"

Fish in the Dark, Cripple of Inishmaan, and Fences were all hits at the Cort

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 3:19pm

Isn't every house essentially a flop house until a hit comes along?

Updated On: 1/7/25 at 03:19 PM

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 3:24pm

I never said it was a flop house and that ZERO shows have ever recouped but out of the 3 shows that have played there since it reopened two closed pretty quickly and I can see the Shuberts giving them a break in the rent just to let it close its run to avoid "and another one!" Obviously this won't recoup either but at least there aren't going to be headlines about it.

I actually don't think any theatre is a flop house because we all know if a big star is in a show people will somehow "find" the theatre but some producers do look at "well, 8 out of 10 straight plays there in the past 15 years failed" data.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 3:51pm

Considering nearly every show had a big drop this week, as to be expected, the small drop for Maybe Happy Endings is impressive. Really great ending for Suffs too.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 5:36pm

Obviously, rg7759 was right. Congestion pricing is destroying broadway. That’s why so many shows are down this week, lol

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 5:48pm

Sauja said: "Why haven't the producers of Left on Tenth given up the ghost? This MUST be losing money week after week. I'm shocked they didn't cut their losses and close after the holidays."

If they play a certain number of performances, the producers get to share 40% of the author’s royalties for future productions. Not sure whether or not they have reached that threshold yet.

[ScottK]

Posted: 1/7/25 at 5:55pm

Cripple of Innishman, with Daniel Radcliffe, at the Cort--was NOT a hit--it did NOT recoup--nor close to it.

And the Gershwin was considered one of the biggest flop houses (when it was the Uris), until it became POPULAR.