Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/19/17

Home For The Holidays is off to a great start

and wowza Bands Visit!!!!

Updated On: 11/20/17 at 04:12 PM

Dear Evan Hansen was DOWN in attendance? I would've taken any free seat anytime last week

Updated On: 11/20/17 at 04:19 PM

ethan231h said: "Home For The Holidays is off to a great start

and wowza Bands Visit!!!!"

I’m sobbing over here. Home for the holidays earned 6% of their gross potential! I don’t see it hanging on.

Craziest thing about Home for the Holidays is that someone paid $397 for a ticket, while the remaining 98% of the audience was probably given paper tickets.

raddersons said: "Craziest thing about Home for the Holidays is that someonepaid$397 for a ticket, while the remaining 98% of the audience was probablygiven paper tickets."

$397 is the top premium ticket price available --- it doesn't mean that someone actually paid that much.

Call_me_jorge said: "Really, what was Jordan Roth thinking??"

That he had a vacant theatre for several months and someone offered to pay for it.

He's a theatre owner and producer, not an artistic director.

Updated On: 11/20/17 at 04:37 PM

dramamama611 said: "5 perfs....thats part of the info."

Whoops, my bad! Overlooked that little detail. Yikes.

JSquared2 said: "$397 is the top premium ticket price available --- it doesn't mean that someone actually paid that much."

Ah, that clears that up. Still makes me feel bad for the poor suckers that paid $100. Thanks.

Kad said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Really, what was Jordan Roth thinking??"

That he had a vacant theatre for several months and someone offered to pay for it.

He's a theatre owner and producer, not an artistic director.
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I'm not really sure where to bring this up, but I figure this is the place. How is rent typically dealt with at a theater? Is the theater given a percentage of the profits from the show, on top of just the charge of taking up the space? Or is it the same as an apartment or business - flat rate, monthly charge, regardless of how much money the show is making?

Obviously it's all contractual and every situation is going to be a little different, but what's typical?

I think it's a safe bet that DEH did give out more comps this week than ususal, accounting for 30 less seats sold for the week, which is actually only four seats less per performance, so not exactly a big deal. What I'd love to know is the unknowable, which is the amount of the actual money spent by the people who saw the show last week was, counting, of course, the money spent for secondary market tickets.

Given that The Parisian Woman hasn't opened yet, it really is doing quite well so far. I think it might turn out to be one of those shows for which the reviews will really matter. My understanding, by the way, is that there's no obligation for Uma to extend her run even if the show is very successful. It will be her decision alone.

Smaxie said: ">And...I'm not being facetious at all. Is it possible that 5.5% of the potential gross is the lowest EVER in Broadway history?<

How quickly we forget Prymate.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/PRYMATE"

Let's put it this way: It's pretty unlikely that Home for the Holidays sold many premium tickets. Forget the number of performances, the average price for a ticket was under $15.00. That's FIFTEEN. DOLLARS..