Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 2:56pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/2/2008 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

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 2:58pm

holy sh*t.

but, congrats Speed the Plow!

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:00pm

Yikes, this is dreadful. Even Wicked, Mamma Mia, and Jersey Boys decreased slightly.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:05pm

Good Lord.

Is it all the economy? or is something else at play here?

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:06pm

Wow. That's horrific. Only 2 shows increased. Pathetic.

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:06pm

Ouch! That one hurt.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:06pm

Jesus Christ! Bye-bye 13.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:19pm

Double whammy last week of Halloween on a Friday night and the end of Daylight Saving Time. Times Square was a ghost town around curtain time on Friday. And for some reason, the changing of the clocks has an effect on grosses. People lose their collective minds and avoid going to the theatre, I guess for fear of not knowing what time their show may be starting. But check it historically, and you'll always see grosses tumble during the weeks the clock change. Grosses will slowly build from now to Thanksgiving, tumble again for the first two weeks of December, and then build again for the holiday weeks, before falling off again in January.

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

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:21pm

Wow.

Terrible. I guess this explains why SPRING AWAKENING closed...apparently the advance numbers were NOT good. Ouch.

I guess we can be expecting a closing notice for A TALE OF TWO CITIES (and THIRTEEN) sometime this week or next.

Updated On: 11/3/08 at 03:21 PM

#10

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:32pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 03:32 PM

#11

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:33pm

I was commenting on Friday night that I have never seen (other than the strike!) the theatres so empty---

No one at the box offices, and very small lines/crowds outside the theatres.

#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:34pm

As long as ATOTC lasts until next week I will be fine.

#13

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:47pm

I really think that since 13 & ATOTC haven't announced a closing date, that both shows are holding out that they make some kind of money during the holidays. Regardless, both shows will likely close in January.

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#14

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:47pm

No holidays to skew the numbers--wonder why they're so dreadful.

#15

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 3:49pm

I really don't think A TALE OF TWO CITIES and/or THIRTEEN will hold out for another two/three months.

At least one of them will be posting a closing notice by Thanksgiving.

#16

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:11pm

Yikes. Next week's grosses will be skewed also, with people opting to stay home Tuesday to watch the Election results.

13 and ATOTC are predictable notices... but I wouldn't be surprised if the flying nanny is (remotely) thinking about packing her carpet-bag (with a pair of potty-mouth puppets in-tow). That screaming pill-popping matriarch may well be out soon too.

Dammit.

Updated On: 11/3/08 at 04:11 PM

#17

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:14pm

Halloween takes a toll on family shows, I would assume. I'd be interested in seeing Friday's receipts.

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#18

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:18pm

Yeah, AVENUE Q should be the next long-running show to close up shop.

#19

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:21pm

I'm not sure 13 and A TALE OF TWO CITIES will leave as quickly as they should. 13 must be really cheap to run and I'm sure the producers are waiting for the kids to get their Christmas break and see the show. A TALE OF TWO CITIES is obviously more expensive to run, but if the producers didn't post a closing notice after the dreadful reviews and the plummeting grosses, I imagine they are injecting endless money into the show (as Michael Riedel said they meant to do from the start) through the holidays or until the owners of the Hirschfeld kicks them out due to their inability to bring in $$$ into their theatre.
I doubt MARY POPPINS will pack soon, especially with Thanksgiving/Christmas just around the corner. The show is a tourist trap and their tourists are coming soon enough. I don't see it lasting as long as they thought it would though.
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#20

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:23pm

If The 39 Steps keeps slipping will they even bother moving theaters again?

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#21

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:26pm

AUGUST will probably be closing in January or February as well...and while I will be sad to see it go, it had a PHENOMENAL run. Especially for where it started financially, where it is now is really impressive.

#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:40pm

>If The 39 Steps keeps slipping will they even bother moving theaters again?<

But it hasn't been slipping. Most weeks it has been in the mid $200,000 range. And it's very cheap to run. One week down won't hurt it. Even at $182,000, where other shows dropped more than six figures, it made more than just about any week at [title of show] or most of the non-star casting weeks at Xanadu.

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#23

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 4:52pm

An important factor in the crappy grosses that hasn't been mentioned:

From Thursday through Sunday, all the tourists in town were either participating in or connected to the NYC Marathon. They were focused on carbs and running, not going to the theater. The hotels were full, but not with the typical NYC visitors. Since about 60% or more of audiences are traditionally out-of-towners, the drop in attendence makes sense.

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#24

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/2

Posted: 11/3/08 at 5:02pm

Excellent point!

#25

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Posted: 11/3/08 at 5:10pm

Is there any logic in keeping a show running just to get to the holidays? Risking a few million in losses just to make a few hundred thousand dollars? If these losing shows stay open it would be just for producer's ego- so that they can say their show ran for 100 performances. Guess those syrupy ads for MP aren't working...if they are so concerned about people in these worrisome times, why don't they lower their ticket prices? Little Mermaid is doomed to a Titanic death....Can Cloris save YF?- No- Why would she want to do this? Grease- gone by Jan. Ave.Q- also gone....BE will not be as big a hit as they want it to be...Shrek- big floperroo.....There will be only 20 shows open in Jan.-Spring will not be any better- no one has $$$-French tourists do not see shows. They don't tip in restaurants either.

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