Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/11/15

[Rob]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:08pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/11/2015 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: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (14.8%), MATILDA (11.8%), JERSEY BOYS (11.6%), WICKED (9.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (8.0%), LES MISÉRABLES (7.9%), FINDING NEVERLAND (7.8%), THE KING AND I (7.7%), KINKY BOOTS (7.5%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (5.6%), AMAZING GRACE (4.5%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (3.8%), FOOL FOR LOVE (3.3%), SPRING AWAKENING (2.3%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (2.3%), FUN HOME (2.0%), ALADDIN (1.6%), CHICAGO (1.0%), BEAUTIFUL (1.0%), SYLVIA (0.4%), HAMILTON (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: OLD TIMES (-4.8%), HAND TO GOD (-2.9%), DAMES AT SEA (-0.9%), THE GIN GAME (-0.7%), THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (-0.4%),

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[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:10pm

Yikes, Spring Awakening. That production is so beautiful, but their numbers look like a revocation of their extension might be warranted. 

[VotePeron]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:10pm

WOW! On Your Feet is off to a great start. In other news, having 9 shows gross under 500k doesn't look good.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:11pm

It's early October, though. That is to be expected.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:12pm

Wow...some good numbers for Chicago.  It's heartbreaking to see struggling numbers for Dames at Sea...a show I would love to see.  Even Amazing Grace showed an improvement of sorts.  

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:31pm

Spring Awakening will benefit from holiday tourism.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:35pm

Will it, though? ^

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 2:36pm

Every show benefits from holiday tourism.

[little_sally]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 4:04pm

Allegiance is off to a nice start!

Meanwhile, a friend of mine tried to use a discount code that was still technically valid for Spring Awakening last night and the box office refused to honor it.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 4:06pm

^ Which is a really really really stupid Ken Davenport strategy. Turn away people's money! Clearly it's working.

[Stew123]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 4:20pm

I find Allegiance most surprising!

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 4:22pm

Stew123 said: "I find Allegiance most surprising!"

 

Read the Allegiance preview thread and you may see why it is less shocking.

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:16pm

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "Wow...some good numbers for Chicago.  It's heartbreaking to see struggling numbers for Dames at Sea...a show I would love to see.  Even Amazing Grace showed an improvement of sorts.  

 

"Dames At Sea" are still in previews. And their in a house of 586. Inthink they're ok.

 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:18pm

Their grosses are still severely low, though, I'd say. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:21pm

Let's guess how many more months it will take Hamilton to recoup. I predict 4 months.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:30pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Let's guess how many more months it will take Hamilton to recoup. I predict 4 months."

 

I will actually be surprised if it takes them that long.

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:43pm

They just announced they are 25% there now, so seems easy to do the math, no?

[massofmen]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:44pm

Yeah cause spring awakening is such a holiday show. Those holiday tourists will flock to that uplif ting material. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:51pm

If they are 25% after 2 months, then it will take another 6 months to get to 100%.  But since ticket prices have increased, I'd say another 5 months.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:52pm

I'm confused how their immense advance sales doesn't accelerate their distance to recouping. Shouldn't they be much closer to recoupment than 25% by now?  

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:54pm

Advance sales aren't counted in advance. Otherwise they would have had almost $0 in sales this week.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 5:55pm

Fairly certain the production doesn't see that profit until the actual date of the show the tickets are bought for (speaking for advanced sales vs performance date vs recoupment progress)

[HogansHero]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 6:43pm

Broadwaystar2-Dames is not "OK." They are in over their head even in a tiny house.

Drama-Hamilton has 3 months under the belt. However, the 25% has to do with what has been recouped by investors at this point, not the amount of cash they have in hand. 

 

Greased-correct. The production does not get the money until the settlement for each week it relates to. So that huge advance just sits there and makes you comfortable. Right now they have enough of an advance to cover over 30 weeks of grosses: way more than they need to recoup. The are, in technical terms, sittin' pretty.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 8:00pm

neonlightsxo said: "Every show benefits from holiday tourism."

Yeah, holiday tourism really gave the Last Ship and Honeymoon in Vegas huge leaps in their flailing grosses last year.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/13/15 at 8:12pm

Did honeymoon in Vegas run through a major holiday(Christmas, New Year's Eve) though?