Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/12/17- Page 2

[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.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 3:38am

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "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.

I hope you meant that as a compliment because any producer that can keep a show open and people in work however they do that--then everybody wins.

 

[ChildofEarth]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 8:49am

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."

While we can't compare the two, lest we forget that Come From Away started out this way as well. I've heard many good things about Spongebob.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 9:18am

There is certainly a disappointing amount of hasty generalizing going on here relative to Spongebob. I would not think there would be people here, especially regulars, who do not appreciate that these are the weeks in which producers work to build an audience for a show. Some succeed, some fail, but the illicit transference is ridiculous.

[Lot666]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 10:57am

Phantom4ever said: "Any ideas on why Phantom dropped so much during such a healthy week?"

I was wondering the same thing.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 11:49am

HogansHero said: "There is certainly a disappointing amount of hasty generalizing going on here relative to Spongebob. I would not think there would be people here, especially regulars, who do not appreciate that these are the weeks in which producers work to build an audience for a show. Some succeed, some fail, but the illicit transference is ridiculous."

As is your never-ending smug judgement of everyone else. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 5:24pm

I don't think it is smug to point out that some folks who should know better are rushing to judgment on a show that is in its first week and has not been given an opportunity to see if it can develop a market. I'm surprised you do. 

[Sunny11]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 6:11pm

Spongebob should do well Thanksgiving - New Year’s Day when schools and colleges are out. The cartoon started in 1999 and is still running. That’s a large two generation target audience. A lot of the original fans now have kids of their own who they can take to see this.  

[Jarethan]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 6:11pm

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!"

Never.  Stunt casting is helping for sure, but the show is not going to run as long as Kinky Boots, which has a three-year head-start on it.  I am impressed that the box office went up as much as it did.  I guess we'll see next week how much was due to Mraz and how much to the holiday weekend.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 6:18pm

barcelona20 said: "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."

What is OOTI???

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 11/14/17 at 6:21pm

Jarethan said: "barcelona20 said: "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."

What is OOTI???"

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