Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/24/13

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/24/2013 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: ANNIE (10.6%), THE LION KING (6.5%), AFTER MIDNIGHT (3.8%), MAMMA MIA! (3.0%), TWELFTH NIGHT/RICHARD III (2.9%), NEWSIES (1.7%), THE SNOW GEESE (0.8%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN (-18.7%), CHICAGO (-6.6%), BIG FISH (-6.4%), 700 SUNDAYS (-5.8%), THE GLASS MENAGERIE (-5.7%), JERSEY BOYS (-5.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-4.8%), NO MAN'S LAND/WAITING FOR GODOT (-4.4%), MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL (-3.8%), FIRST DATE (-3.3%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-3.2%), ONCE (-3.1%), ROCK OF AGES (-2.9%), PIPPIN (-2.5%), MACBETH (-2.2%), MATILDA (-1.7%), WICKED (-1.6%), ROMEO AND JULIET (-1.0%), CINDERELLA (-0.8%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.4%), THE WINSLOW BOY (-0.4%),

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Yes, that's exactly what happens. The Book of Mormon sells around 25-30 standing room seats every show when the show is sold out (which is just about every performance as far as I'm aware.)

Standing room spots are not in the capacity counts of theatres, so a show selling standing room can be above 100% capacity.

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I don't know if I'd call it disappointing, grosses went up by nearly 50% in what was otherwise a very slow week on Broadway as it's the week before a huge influx of tourists come in and schools are on vacation.

My guess is it's at or just below the weekly running costs with the numbers it just pulled in. No, not great for the long-term health of the show but far from disastrous when it's a very slow week otherwise and only a week after it opened.

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Very surprised about the MAMMA MIA numbers, it's crazy they only were at 60-odd% capacity at the Broadhurst. Did they even do those numbers at the Winter Garden? I haven't checked their numbers in a while.
I don't think GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE... is in trouble at all, the grosses actually went up which is what matters, especially since most shows had a pretty disastrous week. I imagine the numbers for the show will largely improve starting next week with the Thanksgiving holiday and through Christmas. I hope it can survive those tough winter months early in the year though.
The biggest loser here is ROMEO & JULIET. God, it must suck to perform to a house filled at 37% capacity. I'm still not sure what the point of this revival was. It clearly didn't work out. And speaking of Shakespeare, how exciting is it that a Mark Rylance-led production of two Shakespeare plays is doing that well!

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For only having 5 performances, the $500,000+ for BEAUTIFUL is promising!

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Right, but 700 SUNDAYS is now playing in a theater with 1,469 seats compared to the 1,166 seats it was playing to 8 years ago. It sold 700 more seats last week than it could have sold at the Broadhurst during the original run.

Mamma Mia at the Winter Garden was doing 60-70% in the low season but they could meet running costs and discount since they had a bigger capacity, clearly they thought they would be doing better business at the Broadhurst rather than doing the same percentage of capacity but lower number of seats.

Yikes.... Romeo and Juliet...

92.9% capacity is not exactly a red flag to start discounting.

Great news about "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical"-- off to a promising start.

Playbill.com reports:

"Newly arrived to Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre was Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Over five previews, it played to 85% capacity and collected 79% of its possible take. The average paid admission was a not-bad $116.41 a ducat. That was a higher figure than all but four Broadway shows. The show has also already set itself apart from its competition by setting its top premium ticket price at $450. That's above than the red-hot Betrayal ($423) and beaten only by the ever-popular The Book of Mormon ($477)."