Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/22/15

[Rob]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:05pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/22/2015 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.

Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses...

Up for the week by attendance was: OLD TIMES (4.7%), SPRING AWAKENING (4.4%), SYLVIA (3.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: ALLEGIANCE (-23.1%), DAMES AT SEA (-19.4%), LORD OF THE DANCE: DANGEROUS GAMES (-18.0%), HAND TO GOD (-15.8%), CHICAGO (-15.8%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-12.8%), JERSEY BOYS (-11.0%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-10.8%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-10.7%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-10.6%), FOOL FOR LOVE (-10.0%), WICKED (-9.5%), FUN HOME (-9.3%), LES MISÉRABLES (-9.3%), BEAUTIFUL (-9.1%), MISERY (-8.7%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-8.0%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-7.7%), THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (-7.4%), KING CHARLES III (-6.9%), ALADDIN (-6.4%), A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (-5.7%), THE KING AND I (-5.7%), THE GIN GAME (-5.4%), MATILDA (-4.6%), THE COLOR PURPLE (-4.2%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-3.2%), CHINA DOLL (-3.0%), ON YOUR FEET! (-2.7%), KINKY BOOTS (-2.5%), THE LION KING (-2.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%),

Click Here to Visit the BroadwayWorld Grosses...

[skies]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:10pm

"Allegiance" does not look good at all.

[Pootie2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:12pm

skies said: ""Allegiance" does not look good at all."

 

Probably because Lea Salonga was out for several days.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:12pm

Allegiance, apparently, has been doing that "tell your friends! tell your friends!" thing at stage door recently. So, yeah. It doesn't look good. 

[Sunny11]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:14pm

Did everybody save their money for Thanksgiving or something? Is there normally an across the board lull at this time of year? 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:15pm

Relatively strong start for Fiddler. The Dames closing announcement this morning makes much more sense now. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:16pm

I know it's a unique engagement, but should Lord of the Dance's numbers look that abysmal?

 

And Allegiance is next on the chopping block in my mind, whenever that time comes.

Updated On: 11/23/15 at 03:16 PM

[Pootie2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:18pm

Sunny11 said: "Did everybody save their money for Thanksgiving or something? Is there normally an across the board lull at this time of year? "

 

Tourist upticks coinciding with the major family-visitation holiday weekends, including Thanksgiving weekend and around Christmas through the New Year. You can see the patterns in the larger annual gross charts, which does correlate to both tickets sold and ticket price (holiday tickets being usually sold in advance means no short or same-day discounts).

[woeisme3]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:20pm

Poor Allegiance. It's so obvious that it can't find an audience.

I wondered whether Dames and Gentleman's Guide were a bit pre-mature in their closing announcements, but these grosses seem to support that decision. Right now, I think the winter will likely see the end of Alliegance and Les Mis. Although they're not doing badly, I can see Kinky Boots and Matilda closing up shop soon since they've recouped and had a nice full run on the great white way.

Also sad that American in Paris went down. I was hoping theyre'd be more support in a dark time. 

[ivandixon2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:21pm

Lord of the Dance is a disaster and embarrassment of monumental proportions. TM site shows that most performances this week have about 200-300 tickets sold. I wonder if it's too late to move in the star-driven Christmas Carol that the Lyric passed on for LOTD.

[Pootie2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:24pm

Again, Lea Salonga was out of Allegiance from Thursday through Sunday. That's kind of the bulk of the show week. If her presence ends up being a/the major anchor in keeping the show open due to the mixed reviews, last week is hardly normal.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:25pm

"The Dames closing announcement this morning makes much more sense now."

From a "sense" perspective, it should already have closed. When you are playing to half-empty houses at the Hayes, you have pretty much defined the lower extremity of the "no interest" continuum.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:26pm

ivandixon2 said: "Lord of the Dance is a disaster and embarrassment of monumental proportions. TM site shows that most performances this week have about 200-300 tickets sold. I wonder if it's too late to move in the star-driven Christmas Carol that the Lyric passed on for LOTD."

It's November 23. "Too late" is an understatement. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:26pm

HogansHero said: "When you are playing to half-empty houses at the Hayes, you have pretty much defined the lower extremity of the "no interest" continuum."

 

Extremely well-said. Very sad for the production, but low numbers at the Hayes are as real as reality gets.

 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:27pm

HogansHero said: ""The Dames closing announcement this morning makes much more sense now."

 

From a "sense" perspective, it should already have closed. When you are playing to half-empty houses at the Hayes, you have pretty much defined the lower extremity of the "no interest" continuum.

 

"

I should have written that more clearly. I knew the announcement was coming (and quite overdue), but I meant with the sheer timing of the announcement makes sense coinciding with these horrendously low grosses.

[evic]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:33pm

What boggles my mind is that the producers of Dames are willing to lose another million dollars in the hopes that the show will do well for the next 3 weeks and then 1 week over xmas/new year.  Jan 3, which is usually the date for closings will be especially bad this year.  Also-I would think that with Jennifer Hudson, Color  would be doing better.....but maybe people remember how awful the original was and are staying away.  Guess Misery has a big advance.  King And I is no South Pacific for Lincoln Center.  A shame- it is a beauty.  Next week through 12/15 will be blockbuster for most shows

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:55pm

evic said: "What boggles my mind is that the producers of Dames are willing to lose another million dollars in the hopes that the show will do well for the next 3 weeks and then 1 week over xmas/new year.  Jan 3, which is usually the date for closings will be especially bad this year.  Also-I would think that with Jennifer Hudson, Color  would be doing better.....but maybe people remember how awful the original was and are staying away.  Guess Misery has a big advance.  King And I is no South Pacific for Lincoln Center.  A shame- it is a beauty.  Next week through 12/15 will be blockbuster for most shows

 

"OR considering The Color Purple only had 7 shows last week? I think they look pretty good!

 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:00pm

ivandixon, it's about 2 months too late. So, yes.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:02pm

evic, I thought that was strange as well. I'm surprised they didn't give a week or two's notice and close it now.

[bryan]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:06pm

so why is pototill thee it need to colesd 62% of attence

 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:08pm

What a horrible week.

 

Allegiance has been a "spread the word, social media fans!" show but that tack has taken on a really desperate tone lately.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:10pm

And didn't Jhud have to miss a perf for the Chirac premiere?

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:11pm

Stupid question, but is Color Purple going to continue being 7/week? 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:18pm

It did not help to take an off Broadway show and dress it up as a Broadway show with Broadway prices. Might have done better @ NWS if it had to be done at all.

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 4:19pm

Scarywarhol said: "Stupid question, but is Color Purple going to continue being 7/week? 

 

"Not according to the website. Next week they have 8.