Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:06pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/8/2009 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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:12pm
Pretty nice week overall.
Glad to see ITH and Poppins get such large increases!
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:12pm
I don't see how Burn the Floor is going to make it through their extension. Hopefully holiday sales look good.
Glad to see In the Heights got some boost, though it could be doing better.
And Shrek did a lot better this week (though it was probably due to the closing notice).
Overall, it seems as if most shows went through a boost, even though some were not that large. In fact, the more popular shows were the ones that decreased in terms of capacity.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:13pm
I was so glad last night to see such a packed house.
And the audience was so enthusiastic too!
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:14pmNice bumps by almost everyone. These numbers should continue to get better with Thanksgiving coming up.
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:35pmGlad to see many shows have a nice boost, especially Shrek. I wonder if In the Next Room will make it to the full limited engagement. Also, N2N keeps on getting closer and closer to recouping. Hopefully, it does very soon.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 3:37pm
Nice to see "Shrek," "Mary Poppins," and "In the Heights," get boosts. Hopefully, "Shrek" will go out with a bang like "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Little Mermaid (which I cared less about) did.
Updated On: 11/9/09 at 03:37 PM
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:05pmWicked drops yet makes more money then the week prior.
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:12pm
I wonder if In the Next Room will make it to the full limited engagement.
It's a not-for-profit production, so it will run until its expected closing date. Generally, nonprofits expect to run their shows at a loss, which is why they are subsidized by donations and grants.* Also, they have a huge subscriber base to satisfy, so they can't close it before all their subscribers have had a chance to see it. AND, unlike commercial producers, Lincoln Center can take the huge profits being made from SOUTH PACIFIC and use them to fund their other productions.
*That is a HUGELY simplified statement and I know very well that the business is much more complicated than that.
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Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:12pmGreat to see, even if most of the numbers were just bounces back from last week's Halloween/Daylight Savings attendance-killer.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:40pm
"Wicked drops yet makes more money then the week prior."
It also has a lot to do with the average ticket price for the week, which depends on which seats were sold and how many premium seats were sold regular price. If you look, the average ticket price this week is higher than last week.
Perhaps less tickets were sold overall, but more people bought more premium tickets than the previous week to account for the higher amount of money the show made.
Pay attention to the fluctuating ticket prices.
#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:45pmIt is nice to see an overall increase, some shows had decreases, but it brings a smile to my face when most shows go up!
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:45pmIn The Next Room hasn't even opened yet, right?
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:52pm
"I don't see how Burn the Floor is going to make it through their extension. Hopefully holiday sales look good. "
Millie, look at the drop off after August 16th. That is the date Maks and Karina left. I think the producers are hoping that having Maks and Kym come back will boost the grosses again. Before Maks and Karina left, the show was playing to packed houses. It also wouldn't hurt things any if Kym and Donny win this season of Dancing with the Stars.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesshow.cfm?show=BURN%20THE%20FLOOR
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 5:03pmGO FINIANS! They had a huge jump from last week. Lets hope things keep improving for them!
#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 5:25pmIt is a huge jump, nearly 200 thousand...but given the reviews, would you have expected the number of seats sold to have made a jump as well?
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#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 8:18pmI am really astounded to see Bye Bye Birdie, which was panned by the critics, get a near sell out, but the critically acclaimed Finian's Rainbow is 3/4 full, what is going on?
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 8:33pmAnd people want to see John Stamos, regardless of poor reviews.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 8:48pm
Explain WSS....terrible views, no real names and until very recently was in the 90% capacity range.
It is am imperfect society.
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 9:17pmOh and Wicked is sold out every week?
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 9:27pm
Oh and Wicked is sold out every week?
It's at 97%, and remains the top grossing show on Broadway. Yes, it's in REAL danger.
::eye roll::
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 9:28pmNever mind.
Barney Stinson
Leading Actor Joined: 5/1/09
#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/8
Posted: 11/9/09 at 10:23pm
This was a BAD week overall, no doubt about it.
Since last week was the Halloween/Marathon/World Series/Time Change quadfecta of suck, you can't even look at the positive comps with last week as any sort of positive this week.
If you ignore the Monster shows and those that are too new to really evaluate, and look at the rest compared to two weeks ago you have have:
After Julie - gross up $30K, Cap down 9%
BTF - down a tad
BBB - down $20K
Chitown - down BIG, $130K and 16%
Hair - down BIG, $130K, and 13%
Hamlet - up a tad
ITH - Down BIG - $100K and 11%
Mary P - UP $45K and 4% - first real increase
N2N - Down BIG (for N2N) - $40K and 7.5%
ROA - Down a tad - $12K and 3%
Shrek - UP HUGE - $225K, and 16% - first sign of life in months.
South pac - Down big, $80K and 7%
SupDo - Down, $25K and 8%
39 - Down BIG, $30K and 4%
Phantom - Down a little, $40K and 8%
Royal Fam - Down, $27K and 2%
West Side - Down BIG, $175K and 11%
Wishful D - flatish, down $4K, up 1%
So of these shows, everyone but closing announcement Shrek, Jude Law's Hamlet, Mary P and Miss Julie were down somewhere from a little to A LOT from two weeks ago. Last week was just so bad, that it made this otherwise crappy week look ok.
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