Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#1

Posted: 10/15/07 at 5:24pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/14/2007 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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#2

Posted: 10/15/07 at 5:29pm

Wow, what a drop for RENT.

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[neddyfrank2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#2

Posted: 10/15/07 at 5:40pm

Ouch for RENT.

[Fiyero13]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#3

Posted: 10/15/07 at 5:42pm

from 83% to 52% wow what a surprise

[AvenueQResident]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#4

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:02pm

Drowsy goes up, up, up and Rent goes down, down, down.

Everything in life...is only for now.

[nyc1870]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#5

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:02pm

Wow, Spring Awakening beat Wicked in capacity!

[BroadwayBen]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#6

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:04pm

BLONDE keeps going up! HAIRSPRAY still strong. Why the dip at COLOR PURPLE? GREASE still strong. PHANTOM up! A good week -- except for RENT.

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#7

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:24pm

Xanadu went up a little, but not enough for me. Hang in there!!!

BroadwayEd

[ucjrdude902]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#8

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:29pm

I really think this whole Blonde thing is going to pay off. I know people where saying stuff about how it'll be on youtube. But I've heard AEA is about to SERIOUSLY cut down on that type of stuff.
Updated On: 10/15/07 at 06:29 PM

[Tkt2Ride]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#9

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:43pm

I totally agree that the MTV stunt will give LB a good boost. It will help the Holiday Season at least.

Okay and I have to say it. Yeah! Drowsy! Hang in there Xandu. I think they will both do better this Holiday Season. Thanks for supporting these great shows.

Color Purple is starting it's tour so that may slow down sales a little bit. At least more people will be able to see the show.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#10

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:50pm

How did YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN do?
Oh wait I forgot, Mel is taking away some of our fun.

[jv92]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#11

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:56pm

Can Rent please close already?

[henryt]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#12

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:57pm

Who would have thought that David Hyde Pierce's absence would cause a $200,000 dip?! I didn't realize that that many people would know that they could check that in advance.

[Tkt2Ride]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#13

Posted: 10/15/07 at 7:13pm

I don't know, we get a lot of PR here. Mel is probably doing better than he really should be.

It's tough though about DHP but I love him so some of this makes sense. They should go to see Debra Monk though! She looks awesome!

[CyCoSpAz2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#14

Posted: 10/15/07 at 8:05pm

Makes me wonder what Curtains will look like once David Hyde Pierce leaves for good...

[BroadwayBen]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#15

Posted: 10/15/07 at 8:21pm

Well, they will probably get another star to replace him, won't they? Maybe Kelsey Grammer?

[henryt]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#16

Posted: 10/15/07 at 8:49pm

Is this usually the week that Broadway starts coming out of the "summer slums"?

[Smaxie]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#17

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:04pm

At $550,000 and without its Tony-winning star, Curtains STILL had a better week than most of the run of The Wedding Singer.

In other news, Variety estimates a net gross of approximately $875,000 for four previews of Young Frankenstein, with an average ticket price of $205.

"Monster box office boost
'Frankenstein' scares up $875,000

By GORDON COX

Legiters don't know exactly how much of a boost "Young Frankenstein" gave the Broadway cume last week -- but it was a big one.

Although "Frankenstein" producers Mel Brooks and Robert F.X. Sillerman have decided not to report sales figures for their big-budget new tuner, a combination of digging and number-crunching yielded an estimated box office tally of about $875,000.

That's net gross for an abbreviated week of four previews. The monster sum lands "Frankenstein" in the No. 6 spot in the top 10, and pushes the show's average ticket price up to about $205. (A cluster of "Frank" seats carry a premier pricetag of $450, while another chunk sell for $375.)

Variety - Monster box office boost

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Updated On: 10/15/07 at 09:04 PM

[dented146]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#18

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:21pm

Thanks Smaxie

[Tkt2Ride]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#19

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:25pm

Thanks smaxie. Let them tell us it's a secret. This is just previews.

[dancingthrulife04]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#20

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:39pm

I can't say I didn't expect Rent to drop a bit, but... ouch.

On the other hand, go Drowsy!

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[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#21

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:12pm

Aw, Rent.

Go Drowsy! Wooh.

"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster. "Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#22

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:28pm

Of course I expected it, but the RENT figures make me sad. Oh well. It was low before the return of AA and stayed open (*she said hopefully*)

"It means nothing to come and sit in a theater night after night and immerse yourself in fantasy, only then to walk out the door and be unchanged in reality. This show will live on in our hearts. But where it truly must survive is in our actions, our compassion and our generousity of spirit towards one another." - Adam Pascal on the closing of RENT

[AvenueQPat]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#23

Posted: 10/16/07 at 12:58am

UCJR -

Actors equity is cutting back alot already. I know on Youtube 4 months ago I would be able to find a lot more videos than I can now - now it is mostly the TV clips which are legal so they can't take them down.....unfortunatley they seem to be taking the protection of their members a little far - I had up a number of clips from a dinner theatre I worked at where there were no equity performers being shown, and AEA took down 10 out of the 11 I had posted.

i dont want to get into a debate on whether I should have them up or not, because I didn't have a liscense - BUT if AEA is taking it off to protect their members they are over stepping the bounds.

You learn to play the straight man, the lines become routine - never really saying what you mean - but i know the scene will change :)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/14/2007#24

Posted: 10/16/07 at 1:42am

Lord! RENT!

YAY DROWSY and SPRING AWAKENING!

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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