Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16- Page 2
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 4:36pm
It’s an outrageously high ticket price—but people bought those tickets. It’s supply and demand. You can’t slam Hamilton for capitalizing on high demand.
#26Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 4:37pm
Can't believe that anyone was stupid enough to part with that amount to see a show, the worst part is the pure greed of the producers. Yes yes yes I know about supply, demand etc, but come on!
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#27Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 4:40pm
The ticket price is disgusting but you know what? The original cast is sharing 1% of that 3.2 million and they deserve it.
Updated On: 11/28/16 at 04:40 PM
#28Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 4:48pm
As I so eloquently declared in my earlier post: "I know, I know, supply and demand, blah blah blah"
At a certain point it begins to border on immoral. Just because they CAN, doesn't mean they should. They could probably charge £500 or more for Harry Potter tickets in London if they wanted to, but they don't.
Also, yes, people are willing to pay that much, but these people are all probably filthy rich (or financially irresponsible). It's just another step in the direction of the gross exclusionary elitism to which Broadway is already prone. Like I said, it's just a sad situation that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
mullein
Understudy Joined: 8/23/16
#29Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 5:00pm
love Hamilton, but with these ticket prices $3mil is nothing to be proud of.
MJM2014
Swing Joined: 8/5/15
#30Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 5:00pm
Oh, Hello seems to be doing pretty incredible for a play - over $618k and beating Color Purple's gross is pretty impressive for a holiday week when tourists usually flock to musicals over plays.
#31Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 5:03pm
MJM2014 said: "Oh, Hello seems to be doing pretty incredible for a play - over $618k and beating Color Purple's gross is pretty impressive for a holiday week when tourists usually flock to musicals over plays.
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According to the "Industry Insight" piece, they're really killing their weekend ticket sales (broke the Lyceum box office record twice this weekend, on Friday and again on Saturday).
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#32Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 5:12pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "It’s an outrageously high ticket price—but people bought those tickets. It’s supply and demand. You can’t slam Hamilton for capitalizing on high demand.
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I think many may be focusing on the wrong thing here. Hamilton didn't set the price -- the market is setting the price. That's how it always is. I just was in London where there is a nice new production of "Half a Sixpence". The chat boards were all over the price the producers set -- too high they all said. And within a week of the show opening, they were proven right -- now every performance is being offered at the London TKTS at a 47% discount.
So what's that got to do with Hamilton? It's the same thing -- just because a producer puts a price on the ticket doesn't mean it's going to sell.
So in Hamilton's case you have the other question -- if folks are actually paying SOMEONE $1000 a ticket for the show (and I think we'll ALL agree that there are people who are doing that -- lots of them) -- where should that money go? Should it go to the producers and the creatives and the actors? Or should it go to the ticket brokers and the speculators and the StubHubs?
In fairness -- I'll concede that not everyone will have the same answer to this question. And we can kick that around for a while -- but THAT is the question.
It reminds me of the old joke -- A man is standing on the street corner with a jar of pencils. He has a sign that says $50 a pencil. A woman comes up to him as says -- "I bet you don't sell too many at that price." And the fellow responds, "I don't have to."
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#33Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 5:30pm
It's not like I'm hoping everyone starts taking their ticket pricing cues from Hamilton but I'm not offended by the ticket prices. I would rather the money go to the production than the scalpers.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#34Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 6:08pm
mullein said: "love Hamilton, but with these ticket prices $3mil is nothing to be proud of."
I don't understand your logic here.
#35Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 6:20pm
you don't need to pity these people for spending a thousand dollars on a ticket to see a broadway show. they'll be fine.
aaaaaa15
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/31/15
#36Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 6:47pm
No sympathy for people that willingly pay that much for a show. They sell those tickets out, good for Hamilton. Hope the money will go towards similar risky and high quality projects in the future.
#37Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 6:56pm
Call_me_jorge said: "littlemouse921 said: "Maybe BOM will close seeing as it didn't make the top five this week
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Is this directed at me?
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Not directed at you, just more of an additional commentary :)
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#38Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 7:03pm
"Hope the money will go towards similar risky and high quality projects in the future."
There was nothing either risky or high quality about it. It was the surest bet in years. Heaven help us all if we get more like it.
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#39Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 9:42pm
After Eight said: ""Hope the money will go towards similar risky and high quality projects in the future."
There was nothing either risky or high quality about it. It was the surest bet in years. Heaven help us all if we get more like it.
"
At some point, the hater who hates nearly every single thing being presented in theatre today needs to look in the mirror and say to himself -
"Hey. After all these years, I guess they can't all be assholes. Maybe the asshole who just doesn't like theatre is me."
And that's fine. There are movies that need to be seen and stamps that need to be collected.
But in the meantime, they can't all be assholes, so look in the mirror.
#40Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 9:51pm
JBroadway said: "At a certain point it begins to border on immoral."
From another perspective, though - one that I'm sympathetic with - it would be immoral for the producers to do anything other than what they're doing. Their obligations are to investors, not ticket buyers, and the primary obligation is to maximize profits.
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#41Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 9:53pm
JBroadway said: "I hate that I kind of agree with A8 on this one. $998 is pretty obscene. I know, I know, supply and demand, blah blah blah. But it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
Still, I'd be intrigued to learn if this is confirmed as a record or not. "
AGREED!
#42Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 9:53pm
neonlightsxo said: "mullein said: "love Hamilton, but with these ticket prices $3mil is nothing to be proud of."
I don't understand your logic here."
I don't quite get it either. I wonder how many $998 tickets In Transit could sell. :)
#43Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 10:06pm
One last comment about those profits. :) Broadway investors - whom I'm simplistically lumping together here for rhetorical purposes - have paid for many shows that seemed sure to flop, and did flop, and that I loved very much: Passion, The Scottsboro Boys, American Psycho, The Visit, and the recent Spring Awakening revival are just a few examples. If some of those investors have the opportunity to make some megabucks to offset these noble losses, I'm all for it.
broadwayguy91
Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/15
#44Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 10:11pm
Big claps for DEH and GC1812 for continuing to do well in the grosses
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#45Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 10:29pm
Glad to see that after the mega-flops of Rent, In the Heights, Avenue Q, and West Side Story, Jeffrey Seller has finally caught a break.
To be fair, a bit of money was lost on Last Ship, but going in that wasn't exactly the riskiest of investments.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#46Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/28/16 at 10:35pm
"There are movies that need to be seen"
There are?
"and stamps that need to be collected.
I'm collecting them. I recommend the songbirds in snow. They're very pretty, and they don't intone obnoxious drivel about having one's shot about a million and one times.
"so look in the mirror."
I'm with the Countess Aurelia on this one. "Not in the glass. It lies."
But thanks for the advice and kind words, Matt.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#47Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/29/16 at 12:02am
I do see a little hypocrisy in HAMILTON saying it is a show for the "people" and a way to get younger audience. The audience will be richer, whiter and older at those prices.
#48Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/29/16 at 12:27am
re Hamilton prices...
are memory spans here so short that most of you do not recall that the increase is a reaction to scalper prices? Is it possible that you folks think it is better for the money to end up in the scalpers' pockets instead of people who make theatre (not to mention who make cheap tix available to high school kids in remarkable numbers)? Does the part this pricing strategy plays in chilling scalping evade your noggins?
re After Eight, it has forfeited the legitimacy of anything it has to say on this subject.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#49Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16
Posted: 11/29/16 at 1:13am
It does seem a bit of a retrograde for them to declare this hip new musical and then have these insane prices. Agreed, it's the rich 1% who can afford to splurge on the show. The rest of us are left to keep refreshing the lotto page.
Surprised it's that top ticket price even now, after all the originals have left. But hey, it's not my money.
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