Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/7/18

oooof hard days for The Parisian Woman. Just hoping they hold out another few weeks till I can get there

I'm always concerned with shows that have dropped below 70% entering into the barren wasteland that is January, unless they have already paid off investors and can be run into weekly profit at that point until "the landlord" wants to take a run at a new tenant and a higher gross.

Producers use the same spreadsheets that list payouts at potential gross percentages, and expensive shows that haven't paid back and that can't maintain above 70% aren't paying out to investors. They are just surviving.

I tell my out-of-town friends that January is the best time to visit: Winter sales are on, hotels are ridiculously cheap, and Bway is 2-for-1 during the January promotion. 

But celebrities and even great notices don't seem to be doing anything for some sub-70 gross potential shows.  I fear notices.

TheyCallMePoppa said: "I'm always concerned with shows that have dropped below 70% entering into the barren wasteland that is January, unless they have already paid off investors and can be run into weekly profit at that point until "the landlord" wants to take a run at a new tenant and a higher gross.

Producers use the same spreadsheets that list payouts at potential gross percentages, and expensive shows that haven't paid back and that can't maintain above 70% aren't paying out to investors. They are just surviving.

I tell my out-of-town friends that January is the best time to visit: Winter sales are on, hotels are ridiculously cheap, and Bway is 2-for-1 during the January promotion.

But celebrities and even great notices don't seem to be doing anything for some sub-70 gross potential shows. I fear notices."

Totally. We went last January, the weather was unseaonably warm, our hotel was reasonably priced, no waits at any tourist attractions (top of the rock, etc.). Would def plan a visit in January again.