Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 3:09pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/23/2016 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: PARAMOUR (9.2%), ON YOUR FEET! (9.1%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (8.6%), KINKY BOOTS (6.0%), JERSEY BOYS (4.4%), MATILDA (3.4%), CHICAGO (3.3%), THE COLOR PURPLE (2.8%), THE HUMANS (2.1%), WICKED (2.0%), FALSETTOS (0.9%), LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (0.8%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (0.6%), THE FRONT PAGE (0.4%), ALADDIN (0.2%), OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (0.2%),
Down for the week by attendance was: BLACK TO THE FUTURE (-13.8%), HOLIDAY INN (-11.0%), THE CHERRY ORCHARD (-10.2%), CATS (-3.4%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-2.9%), THE ENCOUNTER (-2.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.4%), HEISENBERG (-1.4%), WAITRESS (-1.0%), BEAUTIFUL (-0.5%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), THE LION KING (-0.2%),
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 3:19pm
Wow, that is an amazing start. Keep it up, Grobanites.
barcelona20
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 3:29pm
Hamilton didn't completely sell out? How'd that happen?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 3:33pm
barcelona20 said: "Hamilton didn't completely sell out? How'd that happen?"
Where'd you get that from these numbers? Their attendance rate was 101.6%
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 3:40pm
Wow, Groban is a big draw after all (I'm not surprised.) Nice start for that show.
Heisenberg seems to be selling well, which is nice too!
barcelona20
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:08pm
...can someone else take this? I've hit my limit on explaining the grosses to every person on BWW.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:11pm
Clearly this means Hamilton is closing in January.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:14pm
barcelona20 said: "HAMILTON (-0.2%)"
That just means it went down 0.2% from last week, but both this week and last week it was more than 100%.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:24pm
neon, you should consider writing an actual book on grosses and just linking people to its Amazon page in the future 
barcelona20
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:27pm
Maybe I should clarify for those on here who don't understand. Yes, I know Hamilton sold out, but with standing room availability, the max capacity is 101.8%. I find it surprising that it would ever dip below 101.8%, even if it's .02%.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:30pm
Why bother answering to begin with if not interested in explaining. Not everyone is as theatre savvy as you appear to be.
brdwybound04
Leading Actor Joined: 4/5/07
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:57pm
Way to go On Your Feet! With $880K I doubt it will be closing up shop anytime soon- the holidays should fare well for it, and if the producers were smart, they'd ink a deal with Gloria to step into the role of the grandmother this winter...
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 5:44pm
barcelona20 said: "Maybe I should clarify for those on here who don't understand. Yes, I know Hamilton sold out, but with standing room availability, the max capacity is 101.8%. I find it surprising that it would ever dip below 101.8%, even if it's .02%.
If you look at their weekly 2016 capacities, most times it's 101.8% but often 101.7% and sometimes even a bit less. Pretty sure that's a function more of their not making a few standing room slots available for certain performances for whatever reason than that they couldn't find anyone to buy them.
TigerBait88
Stand-by Joined: 11/18/11
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 5:48pm
SQUEALING for the Great Comet!!! Was so nervous and this is an outstanding start!! Hope this keeps up!
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 6:52pm
Another solid week for Liaisons...
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 7:12pm
KINKY BOOTS is still doing well. Happy for that show. Nice to see COLOR PURPLE also doing well.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 7:21pm
I'm really upset the shuberts pulled the stop clause out on Matilda. It doesn't seem to be doing too shabby. If only they could have transferred the show at the very least, but I digress.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 8:36pm
Call_me_jorge said: "I'm really upset the shuberts pulled the stop clause out on Matilda. It doesn't seem to be doing too shabby. If only they could have transferred the show at the very least, but I digress. "
did not.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 8:46pm
Would Matilda be doing this well if they hadn't posted their closing date? Better to go out with a bang.
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 9:40pm
Call_me_jorge said: "I'm really upset the shuberts pulled the stop clause out on Matilda...
"
Where'd you get that idea?
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 9:59pm
Matilda is doing well but it's a VERY expensive show...and it's not making what it needs to stay open.
I was surprised when I was in London recently that Matilda is still such a hot ticket...out of all the shows at the London TKTS booth, Matilda was one of the few that offered no discounts at all..still after all these years.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 10:22pm
trpguyy said: "Call_me_jorge said: "I'm really upset the shuberts pulled the stop clause out on Matilda..."
Where'd you get that idea?"
Fosse76 said: "EthelMae said: "I know it's too late, but why oh why wasn't Ms. Midler's Hello, Dolly! booked into the St. James? That would have been so cool to have it in its original home!"
It's no great mystery: the St. James wasn't available. Technically, neither was the Shubert. Matilda's stop clause was implemented to accommodate Hello, Dolly (it was originally going into the Imperial, but Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 decided to go for an open run). "
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1095955#4853372
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/23/16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 10:36pm
@jorge, as I said, it is not the case. You can't trust everything you read here (or anywhere). First of all, the number of times stop clauses have been invoked can be counted on your fingers. Secondly, the stop clause is not invoked months in advance. Finally,I don't think the show has ever fallen into a range where it could be invoked in any event.
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