Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/12/17

[Rob]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:25pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/12/2017 in BroadwayWorld'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: HELLO, DOLLY! (16.2%), MISS SAIGON (13.3%), CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (10.9%), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (9.1%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (8.8%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (8.5%), BEAUTIFUL (8.5%), TIME AND THE CONWAYS (8.4%), CHICAGO (7.4%), WICKED (6.3%), KINKY BOOTS (6.1%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (5.7%), WAITRESS (3.1%), CATS (3.0%), M. BUTTERFLY (2.3%), ANASTASIA (1.7%), ALADDIN (0.6%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.3%), METEOR SHOWER (0.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.2%), THE BAND'S VISIT (0.1%), THE LION KING (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-10.0%), JUNK (-4.4%),

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[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:31pm

Not a great start for SpongeBob at all.

Week after week, Come From Away's numbers make me so, so happy.

[a-mad]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:32pm

Wow - pretty impressive for Waitress... I thought they might be close to throwing in the towel after this fall, but the stunt casting is doing wonders for the show.  Perhaps this will have a Kinky Boots-like run after all!

[DAME]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:33pm

Bette's run in Dolly continues to be so historic on every level.  

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:34pm

I'm really pulling for Spongebob. I hope it garners good reviews, I loved it in Chicago. 

[barcelona20]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:40pm

OOTI is off to a decent start. Ignore the 100.7% though as I'm sure they gave out free tix and had friends stand for the shows.  Davenport pulls out all the tricks.  Although it sounds like they won't need many tricks given the initial positive reviews.

[raddersons]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:42pm

As I predicted last week, Meteor Shower breaks $1mil gross. Very impressive for a play. 

[Wick3]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:44pm

So happy for OOTI but I really hope it continues well into the holiday season. A week ago I was looking at tickets on telecharge and there were several. Plus I saw OOTI on TKTS. 

 

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:44pm

It was a pretty good start for the Parisian Woman. Grossed close to $600K for 5 performances. And Meteor Shower cracked $1 million. 

Bronx Tale keeps chugging along with respectable numbers, doesn't it? I have no idea who the audience is for that one, but it obviously has one.

I wonder what DEH will gross in this, Ben's final week.

[Bette's Turban]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:51pm

Bette is definitely the draw in Dolly.  Wow.  Bernadette might be more of a draw then Donna.  But it won't be much better.  I do hope I am wrong.

Updated On: 11/13/17 at 03:51 PM

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 3:58pm

Some random thoughts:

Amazing gross for METEOR SHOWER

Good start for THE PARISIAN WOMAN with only 5 performances.

Mraz is bringing WAITRESS back up to the million dollar club.

Updated On: 11/13/17 at 03:58 PM

[binau]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:05pm

When Bernadette starts I bet the producers won’t want to embarrass Bette or Lin Manuel and intentionally report the 5+ million per week grosses as lower than they are. How do we stop this conspiracy from happening? Obviously Bernadette’s run will be the highest grossing run of all time because she is The Greatest Star of All.

[Bette's Turban]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:11pm

qolbinau said: "When Bernadette starts I bet the producers won’t want to embarrass Bette or Lin Manuel and intentionally report the 5+ million per week grosses as lower than they are. How do we stop this conspiracy from happening? Obviously Bernadette’s run will be the highest grossing run of all time because she is The Greatest Star of All."

 

I'll have what she is having!!!! 

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:14pm

The weekly grosses threads should be retitled "Broadway Grosses: Week Ending [insert date], Plus Let's Talk About Hello, Dolly!"

[DAME]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:15pm

BroadwayRox3588 said: "The weekly grosses threads should be retitled "Broadway Grosses: Week Ending [insert date], Plus Let's Talk AboutHello, Dolly!""

 

That is fine with me!

 

 

Updated On: 11/13/17 at 04:15 PM

[Wick3]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:15pm

RaisedOnMusicals said: "It was a pretty good start for the Parisian Woman. Grossed close to $600K for 5 performances. And Meteor Shower cracked $1 million.

Bronx Tale keeps chugging along with respectable numbers, doesn't it? I have no idea who the audience is for that one, but it obviously has one.

I wonder what DEH will gross in this, Ben's final week."

Probably similar to previous weeks. After all, it's been sold out since June? July? It really depends how many premium seats the producers held back. 

I recall for NPH's last week in Hedwig, there were some $599 premium seats sold that week to help with the grosses.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:22pm

Wick3 said: "RaisedOnMusicals said: "It was a pretty good start for the Parisian Woman. Grossed close to $600K for 5 performances. And Meteor Shower cracked $1 million.

Bronx Tale keeps chugging along with respectable numbers, doesn't it? I have no idea who the audience is for that one, but it obviously has one.

I wonder what DEH will gross in this, Ben's final week."

Probably similar to previous weeks. After all, it's been sold out since June? July? It really depends how many premium seats the producers held back.

I recall for NPH's last week in Hedwig, there were some $599 premium seats sold that week to help with the grosses."

Its actually been sold out almost all of the year. They did a ticket price raise in June or July which raised its weekly grosses from the $1.3 million area to the $1.65 million area. I bet the secondary market is red hot though  

 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:28pm

a-mad said: "Wow - pretty impressive for Waitress... I thought they might be close to throwing in the towel after this fall, but the stunt casting is doing wonders for the show. Perhaps this will have a Kinky Boots-like run after all!"

Well, that's what you'd expect from a Weissler produced Broadway show in the long run.

 

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 4:44pm

Any ideas on why Phantom dropped so much during such a healthy week? 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 7:23pm

COME FROM AWAY still killing it!! YES!!

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 9:12pm

IdinaBellFoster said: "Some random thoughts:

Amazing gross for METEOR SHOWER

Good start for THE PARISIAN WOMAN with only 5 performances.

Mraz is bringing WAITRESS back up to the million dollar club."

i am not minimizing Mraz's appeal in bringing more theatergoers back to Waitress. He obviously is.

But November is also a better selling month as shown by practically a rise in every show's grosses. Many shows sold twofers or deeply discounted tickets in Sept/Oct. That generally doesn't happen in November and December.  

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 11:16pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "Not a great start forSpongeBob at all.

Week after week,Come From Away's numbers make me so, so happy."

Broadwaycom says otherwise. LOL 

Can they be that dumb or are they just selling out to spongebob? https://www.broadway.com/buzz/190355/broadway-grosses-spongebob-squarepants-starts-strong-at-the-palace-theatre/

[10086sunset]

Posted: 11/13/17 at 11:41pm

Based on the first week grosses and the first month of shows being thrown up on TDF, I don't believe Spongebob is long for this world.

[SkylarElizabeth]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 12:14am

10086sunset said: "Based on the first week grosses and the first month of showsbeing thrown up on TDF, I don't believe Spongebob is long for this world."

Its still in previews until December 4th, so I think it has some time for it to gain traction with upcoming reviews and such.  Also lots of shows have preview tickets on TDF, and from what I've seen, they seem to sell pretty well on there.  (Just an assumption based on the double asterisks that I've been seeing).  Also, unrelated to the quote, but I've heard of people saying Waitress isn't selling well.  Glad to see that Jason Mraz is bringing in some sales! Hopefully once he has to leave the sales remain and the show can continue to run steadily.  

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 2:05am

Call_me_jorge said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Not a great start forSpongeBob at all.

Week after week,Come From Away's numbers make me so, so happy."

Broadwaycom says otherwise. LOL

Can they be that dumb or are they just selling out to spongebob?https://www.broadway.com/buzz/190355/broadway-grosses-spongebob-squarepants-starts-strong-at-the-palace-theatre/"

No, they're not dumb. Broadway.com is a sales site that exists to sell tickets.. Every article, bit of buzz or gossip etc. is in support of that. They will always be positive about everything because positive sells tickets and makes them money. They're saying something negative about a show is as likely as that show using negative pull quotes in their ads cause they want to present a balanced picture of what critics said.