Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/6/22

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: KPOP (11.1%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (7.6%), ALMOST FAMOUS (4.4%), WICKED (2.8%), SIX (2.7%), ALADDIN (2.5%), CHICAGO (2.1%), BEETLEJUICE (2%), THE PIANO LESSON (2%), THE LION KING (1.8%), INTO THE WOODS (1.5%), HADESTOWN (1.4%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (1.1%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.7%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (0.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN & THE POOL (-27.2%), WALKING WITH GHOSTS (-15.3%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (-14.9%), TAKE ME OUT (-6.9%), A STRANGE LOOP (-1.9%), HAMILTON (-1.7%), 1776 (-1.6%), LEOPOLDSTADT (-1.3%), COST OF LIVING (-1.2%), THE MUSIC MAN (-1.1%), & JULIET (-1%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.4%), FUNNY GIRL (-0.2%),

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Chalk this up to the beginning of the holiday season, but it's nice to see most shows receiving a little bump and making some money this week. 

On the other hand, yeesh, KPOP.

 

K-POP is done for. 

Um, that KPOP number is a typo, right?

Updated On: 11/8/22 at 02:42 PM

SouthernCakes said: "Mike B outgrossing KPop can’t be good for them.


Beetlejuice is still doing good business. They must have a giant drop off in January."

From what I've heard, Mike B's show is actually a good time. It's Gabriel Byrne outperforming that is embarrassing. 

Beetlejuice wasn't really doing good business until they announced they were closing. I think they're just seeing a similar bump to Phantom. 

FWIW: when Mike Birbiglia promotes the show on his podcast every other week, he literally tells the listeners NOT to buy the expensive seats. He tells people "check out the cheap seats in the back, or look for discounts like on TodayTix."

Seems like he's uncomfortable with the face value price point, and would rather have a full house than make a lot of money. I can't help but wonder how the investors/producers feel about that tactic, but I guess he's confident in the low running cost and low capitalization.

Chicago’s numbers have looked dire before and yet it keeps going. One day it’ll close, but who knows when. Who woulda thought Phantom would close before Chicago? 

So many shows doing great. But more than at least two  handfuls looking pretty rough: 1776, Almost Famous, A Strange Loop, Cost of Living, Death of a Salesman, Hadestown, KPOP, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog, Walking With Ghosts. I know some of these shows have already announced closing dates and/or were limited runs, but still disappointing.

First week of previews for Some Like It Hot not great for box office. But I suppose that isn’t unusual for new shows in previews without a big star to attract tourists.  Will remain to be seen if it can build momentum or of it will share the fate of Doubtfire and Tootsie. 

Mods, the Take Me Out relauch is at the Schoenfeld, not the Brooks Atkinson..

KPOP at a $35 average is really sad. Does is close right after it opens?

That's a solid start for A Beautiful Noise and & Juliet.

That average price for A Beautiful Noise is mind boggling.

I’m curious to see how TAKE ME OUT and TOPDOG do during the holiday season, because those numbers do not look promising. I can’t imagine the latter, being a two hander on a single set, is super expensive to run but I e been wrong before 

People on this board keep talking about the holiday season as if the city will be jam packed with Broadway fans from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15. Not the case. Yes there are bumps Thanksgiving week, Christmas Week, and New Years Week, but that's pretty much it. The mid November weeks and early December weeks are pretty dead. The first couple weeks of December are some of the least traveled weeks of the year. So we are not starting two months of strong grosses. 

Lot666 said: "Can Cameron Mackintosh bring himself to officially pull the plug on Phantom (i.e., actually put February 18 on sale),with the show now consistently earning $1 million+ per week and posting the highest capacity on Broadway?"

I think it depends on whether these are still weekly sales or having an affect on Advance Ticket sales.  My gut was that if demand was so high that the advance grew they would instead of putting Feb 18 on sale as the closing date would extend it with a new closing date (which I expected would happen after the Christmas season just to max demand at higher prices)

It’s a bit heartbreaking that brilliant productions of plays are struggling as much as they are. I wish Cost of Living went out higher. But it’s the Topdog/Underdog numbers that I can’t understand. Almost every review was a rave, but they can’t find an audience. While a Neil Diamond biomusical is packing them in at wild prices. It’s not great news in my view.

How is KPOP only pulling Dana H numbers (and that was coming back from the shutdown)? Are people that alienated by the show not being entirely in English? Would supertitles help? Jeez.