Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/29

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/29

Posted: 11/30/09 at 3:53pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/29/2009 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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/29

Posted: 11/30/09 at 3:56pm

Ragtime

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/29

Posted: 11/30/09 at 3:58pm

Why does the crap like Wicked have to be the highest grossing show ever but brilliant pieces like Ragtime are suffering?

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 3:58pm

Good start for Night Music! Their gross will be even higher once they start 8 performances a week.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:04pm

If WICKED is crap, a lot of people like crap.
Is 2 Mil a new record for one week?

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:07pm

A lot of people like crap.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:08pm

crap sells to the masses, brilliance is studied by theater students in conservatories.
ROA avg tix price was 100 bucks.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:11pm

Ragtime's Gross went up 32% week over week. Even as the attendence went down a few percent....that is something...

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:11pm

Is 2 Mil a new record for one week?

I think that Wicked has had 2.5 Mil before.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:12pm

Too bad "In the Heights" couldn't get a great gross this week!

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:15pm

Wow. Over $2 million for WICKED. Wow.

Nice to see boosts for HAIR and SHREK (even though it's closing). And it's pretty easy to see why OLEANNA and SUPERIOR DONUTS are closing.

Also surprised to see WHITE CHRISTMAS so low in the percentages, even though their average ticket price/gross seem fine. I guess more people will be coming in throughout December.

I'm rooting for FINIAN'S and RAGTIME. Here's hoping they both run through the Tonys, although that doesn't look likely right now.

Also, NEXT TO NORMAL has to be close to recouping. Does anyone know the status on that?

#12

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:15pm

Night Music extremely well for first previews! Average ticket price is ridiculously high..

I'll troll and say I'm waiting for the closing announcement for Ragtime :p..

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:17pm

The ALNM average ticket price is so high because they had no discounts at all.

Why does the crap like Wicked have to be the highest grossing show ever but brilliant pieces like Ragtime are suffering?
Because it's not the crap you make it out to be? My feelings on Ragtime and Wicked are both widely known (I love both, for entirely different reasons), but your attitude is kind of obnoxious.

Updated On: 11/30/09 at 04:17 PM

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:18pm

I hope Memphis can pick up!!!

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:29pm

I consider Wicked outgrossing Ragtime less irksome than Memphis outgrossing Ragtime.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:30pm

All I have to say about Wicked is I'm sorry for the tourist families who got way overpriced tickets for multiple people.

I am shocked with Oleanna. I didn't expect it to do well, but I didn't expect it to have the lowest gross.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:34pm

"Wicked makes around 2.5 million the week between Christmas and New Year's, when they have a whole week of "holiday pricing" as opposed to 5 performances."

Wicked's highest ever was 1.8 million and that was the week of Dec 30 last year. This is the highest they ever made.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:35pm

Wicked is hardly crap. It's not great, but it's not utter crap. At least it has entertainment value. Some show on there are COMPLETE crap and are doing better than some good shows. The fact that Memphis made more than Finian's makes me cry icy tears. Also, Oleanna had an average of just over 250 people per show this week. That's not good! Imagine if it hadn't been a holiday.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:37pm

RAGTIME and FINIAN'S are building slowly. Look at the trends. RAGTIME up over $100K from the previous week (a heavily comped opening week.)

Given the strong reviews both should be doing better and the next few weeks will tell the real story. FINIAN'S will get a boost when the new cast album comes out.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:45pm

Finians will be lucky to make it past Jan/Feb. On borrowed time I think...

Ragtime, I think a few more weeks and time will tell.

I think the Spring will almost certainly bring new shows at The St James, Shubert and Marquis (a given!) And possibly, The Neil Simon

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 4:47pm

Finian's is a snoozefest. Walked out at intermission. Even Cheyenne couldn't breath any life into it.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 5:08pm

"Because it's not the crap you make it out to be? My feelings on Ragtime and Wicked are both widely known (I love both, for entirely different reasons), but your attitude is kind of obnoxious."


That is your opinion that it isn't crap. I think it's crap compared to Ragtime and it's sad that people don't realize the beauty of shows like Ragtime, all people seem to want is their money onstage.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 5:17pm

^Drunk Chia Rivera- If that's adamgreer's opinion, its an opinion. You don't need to keep on saying that it's crap too. That's your opinion just like adamgreer. Personally I rather sit through Wicked a 100 times than even give Ragtime a chance. Not for me, and it's pretty sad that you won't even bother listening to other people's opinions and leave it at that. Constantly talking about how good Ragtime is, isn't gonna save it. Also, adamgreer said he liked them both, so I don't know what you're complaining about.

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 5:18pm

Just because Wicked is grossing more than Ragtime doesn't mean you should bash the sh*t out of it. I love Wicked and Ragtime for two different reasons, each deserves to be running on Broadway for different reasons. To call something crap because it outsells something else is just ridiculous.

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Updated On: 11/30/09 at 05:18 PM

#25

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Posted: 11/30/09 at 5:19pm

Interesting week with the Holidays. % capacity not really up for a lot of shows, just ticket prices.

And we've been over this before, but N2N can't be close to recouping, despite how badly some of you all wish it to be true.

At even a $300K operating nut, the show is areound break even for it's run, since you have to factor in all the % of gross payments going out the door, off the top. Even if it's as low as $250K per week, you are talking about $1.5-2mil in total profit, and that is BEFORE the royalty split.

People CONTINUE to just take what they think the weeklyt nut is, and subtract that from gross, but that's just wrong. Plain wrong, there are lots of variable costs that are not included in the nut.