Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/8/17

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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%),

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SDV said: "Where is DEH?



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The attendance didn't change at all, just like Hamilton's.

SDV said: "Where is DEH?"

Pretty sure it's at the Music Box.

All things considered, this is a solid week.

Color Purple did not recoup.

How in the hell did Color Purple not recoup?! It did so well! And it is hell cheap!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.