Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 3:05pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/8/2017 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.
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Up for the week by attendance was: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (9.9%), THE COLOR PURPLE (4.3%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (3.5%), THE ENCOUNTER (2.6%), FALSETTOS (2.5%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (0.1%), JERSEY BOYS (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: ON YOUR FEET! (-17.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-16.1%), HOLIDAY INN (-12.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-9.1%), CHICAGO (-8.7%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-6.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-5.4%), PARAMOUR (-4.2%), IN TRANSIT (-2.7%), CATS (-2.7%), WAITRESS (-2.5%), WICKED (-2.5%), JITNEY (-2.3%), THE FRONT PAGE (-1.5%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (-1.2%), THE PRESENT (-1.1%), THE HUMANS (-0.1%),
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 3:08pm
SDV said: "Where is DEH?
"
The attendance didn't change at all, just like Hamilton's.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 3:42pm
Glad The Color Purple went out on such a high note!
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 3:45pm
SDV said: "Where is DEH?"
Pretty sure it's at the Music Box.
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 4:13pm
RaisedOnMusicals said: "SDV said: "Where is DEH?"
Pretty sure it's at the Music Box.
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 4:30pm
All things considered, this is a solid week.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 6:15pm
Damn, COLOR PURPLE!! Nice way to go out. Did they ever announce that it recouped?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
yellibean2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/06
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 6:54pm
I'm glad to see Falsettos finished strong, especially considering they only had 7 shows this week.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 10:42pm
How in the hell did Color Purple not recoup?! It did so well! And it is hell cheap!
broadwayguy91
Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/15
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 10:47pm
RippedMan said: "How in the hell did Color Purple not recoup?! It did so well! And it is hell cheap!
"
Jennifer Hudson, Heather Headley, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Holliday and Cynthia Erivo post Tony win do not come cheap.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 11:30pm
They can't be making that much?! I mean, the show has to be cheap to produce: No set, no costumes, no wigs, barely any orchestra. If they didn't recoup they had some terrible producing. There is no reason Brooks should have been making more than minimum.
musicals1989
Understudy Joined: 9/16/11
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 11:35pm
RippedMan said: "There is no reason Brooks should have been making more than minimum."
lol what? She was a PRINCIPAL---and Tony nominated. She was easily making 3-4 times the minimum If I had to guess.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 11:53pm
No way. 3x?! For what! I'd imagine Cynthia was making like $3k per week before the Tonys. It's business. They want to make a profit.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/9/17 at 11:57pm
Actually all the women in the show were wigged.
I'm a little surprised it didn't recoup as well, but my guess is also that the weekly salaries of the principals (particularly Hudson) was high.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 12:19am
Sorry, not sure why I put wigs lol Most women on Broadway are wigged. But still. The fact that after a year of pretty stellar business they didn't recoup is kind of silly, no?
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 12:52am
Usually, the week after New Year's dies. What happened this year? For example, Chicago grossed almost $300K more than last year comparable week. If any doubt. even where the grosses went down dramatically, it was mostly due to the lowering of prices from the now usurious prices that seem normal on holiday weeks. Percent of capacity numbers were mind-boggling. Any reason why...was the weather balmy? I really am amazed.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 5:34am
Had a friend in the city Thurs-Sunday that said she'd never seen it so packed at that time of year. And no, not balmy.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 6:45am
I have to wonder for THE COLOR PURPLE exactly how much Hudson, Ervio, Brooks, Holliday, etc. all were making for the show to not recoup.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 9:32am
I think that having the holidays on weekends this year really threw off the tourist market/usual travel days and weeks. Rather than that ONE super insanely congested week between Christmas and New Years, it spread out to the week before, the week between and the week after. I think this coming week may trail off, and the week after we'll start to see those typical January numbers. But as far as I know, many people were still "traveling for the holidays" up until this past week.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 10:17am
ACL2006 said: "I have to wonder for THE COLOR PURPLE exactly how much Hudson, Ervio, Brooks, Holliday, etc. all were making for the show to not recoup."
Ever since Jennifer Hudson left, they struggled. It's not surprising they didn't recoup. Especially from when Heather Headley left until the closing, the grosses weren't strong.
Greased--- good point.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 10:18am
Regarding the Color Purple salaries -- for those to really impact recoupment, my guess is that they some (Hudson and Holliday for sure) were tied to box office percentages. That's what really can kill a show when it has lean weeks.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 10:27am
People who think Color Purple should have recouped need to sharpen their basic math skills. The capitalization was reportedly $8mil. Over 63 frames, the show had a net gross of roughly $40mil. If we assume the nut was $550k-which I think is implausibly low-that equals roughly $35mil, a $3mil shortfall.
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17
Posted: 1/10/17 at 11:03am
Also interesting to note that this Color Purple revival ran only half as long as the original, and in a significantly smaller house. Despite good reviews and enthusiastic (but limited) word of mouth, it was, undeniably, a flop. Perhaps a flop respected by some (personally, I think the source is terrific but the musical adaptation is unbearably amateurish), but a flop.
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