Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/25/18

[Rob]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:13pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/25/2018 in BroadwayWorld'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: SCHOOL OF ROCK (25.2%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (23.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (18.1%), MY FAIR LADY (10.7%), KINKY BOOTS (10.6%), ANASTASIA (10.5%), WAITRESS (10.4%), TORCH SONG (8.7%), CHICAGO (7.5%), HEAD OVER HEELS (7.4%), THE BAND'S VISIT (6.8%), MEAN GIRLS (4.8%), FROZEN (3.9%), THE WAVERLY GALLERY (3.8%), WICKED (3.6%), ALADDIN (1.6%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (0.5%), COME FROM AWAY (0.5%), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (0.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.3%), NETWORK (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE CHER SHOW (-17.8%), THE PROM (-13.9%), THE NEW ONE (-11.8%), AMERICAN SON (-9.8%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-7.2%), KING KONG (-7.0%), SUMMER (-5.8%), THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT (-5.5%), THE FERRYMAN (-2.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-0.2%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:15pm

Why did The Cher Show drop so much?

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:16pm

Summer's worst week yet. Ouch!

[Daddy Warbucks]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:20pm

Surprise, surprise, King Kong at $1.2m! 

I may be in the minority, but I'm rooting for this one in the same way that I rooted for the movie Avatar (which I thought was just ok). 

I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future. 

[seanmcdonagh121]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:23pm

Delighted for another increase for The Prom

I’ve a feeling the box office might increase slightly over the next few weeks then potentially hold steady until Summer.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:24pm

Damn, Hamilton. Knocking on $4M's door.

[ethan231h]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:28pm

I'm hoping The Prom follows the same tracks as A Gentleman's Guide.....

Such a delightful show!!

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:29pm

BroadwayRox3588 said: "Damn,Hamilton. Knocking on $4M's door."

Right? Crazy. This was their second highest-grossing week of all time, about $50k shy of what they made week ending 12/31/17. I predict they'll break the $4M mark during the Christmas/New Year's week next month.

[a-mad]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 3:37pm

Is that a house record for the St James? (Frozen?)

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:04pm

Warbucks2 said: "I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future."

Rewarding ineptitude married with spectacle only breeds more ineptitude. I'm all for rewarding risk, but not when it aspires to mediocrity. We must do better.

[EthelMae]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:38pm

So agreed Hogan. Especially after watching the Harold Prince Doc the other night. All those wonderful shows and the clips of the choreography still gives shivers. I think we are still producing good straight play productions today but the musicals are ho-hum.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:55pm

Happy to see THE PROM continue to climb! 

[VotePeron]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 4:57pm

I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and just prints money. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me.

[zainmax]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 5:06pm

VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and justprintsmoney. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."

There's a difference between a magic show on Broadway and a Broadway musical about a magician.

[vanillaboots]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 5:08pm

VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and just prints money. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."


https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-magic-show-3468
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/merlin-4206

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 11/26/18 at 9:28pm

HogansHero said: "Warbucks2 said: "I want producers and investors to take big money risks to bring crazy visual spectacles to Broadway and I want it to pay off on occasion so that we'll see more of it (and even better versions of it) in the future."

Rewarding ineptitude married with spectacle only breeds more ineptitude. I'm all for rewarding risk, but not when it aspires to mediocrity. We must do better."

 

 Perfect.

I hate to root against a show ... but this show deserves it.

 

[devonian.t]

Posted: 11/27/18 at 3:33am

When will Summer get its marching orders?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/27/18 at 4:59am

VotePeron said: "I will never understand why Hugh Jackman dropped out of the Houdini musical. The Illusionists comes in every year and justprintsmoney. I don't even know where these audiences are coming from - but they obviously love magic. Why a composer hasn't written a show about a magician is beyond me."

I dont get it either....but didnt the winner of AGT get a spot on this show?  

[ddenoff2]

Posted: 11/27/18 at 7:03am

Right after Funny Girl, producer Ray Stark hired Bob Merrill to write the songs and my dad Sam Denoff and his writing partner Bill Persky to write the book for “Hocus Pocus” about Houdini, but the project vanished and, according to Mrs Merrill, nothing was ever written - at least nothing that survives

https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014/12/the-saga-of-ray-stark-and-houdini.html

[South Florida]

Posted: 11/28/18 at 7:13pm

I'm a little panicky about what happened to Cher so fast, this can't close too early. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/28/18 at 8:09pm

South Florida said: "I'm a little panicky about what happened to Cher so fast, this can't close too early."

I am completely confused by what you are saying, and other comments on this show that I at least can understand. Can you translate?

 

[ggersten]

Posted: 11/28/18 at 8:37pm

Just for tradition:  How is Head Over Heels still open?

(yes, I know it has announced it is closing)

[South Florida]

Posted: 11/29/18 at 6:56am

I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but it had the worst drop in attendance and isn't that a bad sign?

 

[theaterlyfe19]

Posted: 11/29/18 at 7:25am

Thrilled to see Waitress' grosses on the top, instead of the bottom section! It's also coming in on Nicolette's last week, maybe that has something to do with it. That, as the new Jo.

 

Hopefully they can maintain this! 

[raddersons]

Posted: 11/29/18 at 9:45am

South Florida said: "I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but it had the worst drop in attendance and isn't that a bad sign?"

Shows typically only close if the running cost (nut) becomes higher than the gross -- and usually if a show is early in the run, they're willing to put a few weeks in to where the gross is lower than the nut so the show can build an audience. Cher Show is still pretty new, and raking in over a million dollars a week, so it's definitely fine. Attendance doesn't really matter as much, other than the fact that it means fewer chances of selling full-price tickets.

Not to mention, the typical Thanksgiving boost tends to do well for family oriented shows, due to out-of-towners coming into the city for a "family" holiday (see: Frozen), and the extra day off from school that kids get. A big chunk of the audience for The Cher Show (gays) already live in New York, and they were busy visiting their families in the midwest.