Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/24/24

TigerBait88 said: "I’ll take this as a win for Maybe Happy Ending. Up about 150k and (according to multiple sources with their operating costs) a profitable week even if it’s slim. Lots of shows took dips in attendance this week. Not gonna sweat that if they did finally make a profit this week. Hoping this is the start of a good holiday season for the show!"

a great uptick but that is nowhere near their break even. Despite cast size MHE is not a cheap show to run.

Oof, those Tammy Faye numbers. It's like watching another guy get kicked in the nards and you have sympathy pains.

MHE certainly did better in the grosses now that the average ticket price isn't bottom basement, but the decrease in capacity is really troubling. They're still bringing in less than their operating costs, but hopefully the increase in ticket prices will give them more time. They need to stop with the discounts and start bringing in enough to cover their costs. Right now, they're still just barely treading water.

DBH seems to be doing well, with good capacity and ticket revenues. As for Cabaret... ouch!

Happy trails, McNeal and Yellow Face!

A pleasant surprise how many shows increased their box office intake for the week before Thanksgiving. Big, big, big rise for Elf especially.

All the buzz and positive reviews for "Wicked: Part One" have likely increased its Broadway counterpart's lifespan by another eleventy billion years. :)

Maybe Happy Ending inching towards the profitability marker? I guess there is still hope left in the world.

Swept Away should probably pack it up sooner rather than later. Reviews were decent but it's just too dark and eerie and has probably shut a lot of people off.

Bring on the holiday week!

TigerBait88 said: "Bobster159 said: "TigerBait88 said: "I’ll take this as a win for Maybe Happy Ending. Up about 150k and (according to multiple sources with their operating costs) a profitable week even if it’s slim. Lots of shows took dips in attendance this week. Not gonna sweat that if they did finally make a profit this week. Hoping this is the start of a good holiday season for the show!"

a great uptick but that is nowhere near their break even. Despite cast size MHE is not a cheap show to run.

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It’s been verified by several outlets thatthe show has a full operating cost of 540k. Take away fees and they’re at least near even if they didn’t quite make it. This week is selling better than last too. Let us have this one…"

Can you link to these? Because their operating docs had numbers very different from this and no amount of trimming would have got them to anything like this number.

Bobster159 said: "Can you link to these? Because their operating docs had numbers very different from this and no amount of trimming would have got them to anything like this number."

All I know is that this show has been discussed to no end on r/broadway as well as other blogs and the operating cost was revised from 680k to 540k last week both on there and elsewhere I saw it mentioned so I took it as gospel. I’ll take a look at where this number comes from so I’m not talking out of my a*s but I saw no pushback to that new number last week.

The increase for Maybe Happy Ending makes me unspeakably happy. I don't know how much they've increased their advertising and pr budget to get there, but there is at least now some hope that this incredible show can have more of a life.

Average ticket price of $160 for Gypsy is nuts! It will be very interesting to see just how frontloaded this production is, or not.

Cabaret is really in trouble. If memory serves, they have only had one profitable week in the Adam/Auli'i run. Now they are in a period where the two stars have planned absences. They've tried to stagger them so only one is out at a time, but even that plan results in a loss of over 150K. Planned absences run all the way through March for both stars. Unless they have someone truly major booked after this pair, we have seen what the ceiling is for this production, and it ain't covering operating costs.

Cult of Love...does Second Stage just not believe in advertising at all? Surely there are a decent amount of people who might pay decent money to see Zachary "Spock" Quinto in a play. But this thing has ZERO presence. Which is par for the course with this company's Broadway offerings. I don't get it.

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "TigerBait88 said: "Bobster159 said: "Can you link to these? Because their operating docs had numbers very different from this and no amount of trimming would have got them to anything like this number."

All I know is that this show has been discussed to no end on r/broadway as well as other blogsand the operating cost was revised from 680k to 540k last week both on there and elsewhere I saw it mentioned so I took it as gospel. I’ll take a look at where this number comes from so I’m not talking out of my a*s but I saw no pushback to that new number last week."

Unless no one is taking royalties that number is impossible for any musical re: operating weekly costs"

The 540k number is the number listed again this week. If someone wants to ask this guy where that number is coming from go ahead because I’m not gonna create a Reddit account just to do that…haha

TigerBait88 said: "GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "TigerBait88 said: "Bobster159 said: "Can you link to these? Because their operating docs had numbers very different from this and no amount of trimming would have got them to anything like this number."

All I know is that this show has been discussed to no end on r/broadway as well as other blogsand the operating cost was revised from 680k to 540k last week both on there and elsewhere I saw it mentioned so I took it as gospel. I’ll take a look at where this number comes from so I’m not talking out of my a*s but I saw no pushback to that new number last week."

Unless no one is taking royalties that number is impossible for any musical re: operating weekly costs"

The 540k number is the number listed again this week. If someone wants to ask this guy where that number is coming from go ahead because I’m not gonna create a Reddit account just to do that…haha"

Read the comments... that's the number that person is taking AFTER rentals and guarantees, which, are still costs the production fronts. If I remember correctly, the person that writes these posts on Reddit is a college student (Ken Davenport went and interviewed him). So I'd take anyone reporting outside of NYC without the experience with a grain of salt...

MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "Cabaret is really in trouble."

Auli'i ended out all of last week for Moana 2.

Updated On: 11/26/24 at 02:41 PM

BdwyFan said: "You gotta account for theater rent percentage and minimum royalties. That gets added to the weekly operating costs. Why does everyone forget those costs? "

Pretty sure the college student who does the grosses breakdown on r/broadway DOES account for that. Again, I’m just trying to be positive about MHE posting their best financial week yet even if that’s a low bar. If someone wants to go argue the MHE operating number with the guy on Reddit, then please do. It seems some already are. Some sort of operating cost change or adjustment seems to have occurred two weeks ago. I’m not sure what that was or the reason for it. I don’t have access to that kind of info (I don’t think) and I’m not going to pretend like I do.