Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/9/14

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/9/2014 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (13.6%), LOVE LETTERS (13.1%), DISGRACED (13.1%), CABARET (12.7%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (12.3%), JERSEY BOYS (11.5%), CINDERELLA (11.5%), WICKED (9.8%), ON THE TOWN (9.0%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (8.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (8.4%), ONCE (7.7%), THE LAST SHIP (7.5%), ROCK OF AGES (6.5%), PIPPIN (6.2%), SIDE SHOW (5.3%), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (5.0%), CHICAGO (5.0%), BEAUTIFUL (4.5%), MATILDA (3.9%), MAMMA MIA! (3.2%), THE COUNTRY HOUSE (3.0%), IF/THEN (1.8%), THE REAL THING (1.0%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (0.9%), THE LION KING (0.8%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-3.6%), ALADDIN (-2.5%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-1.1%), THE RIVER (-0.8%),

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Amazing numbers for A Delicate Balance and The River. I suppose neither is very surprised.

A better week for OTT, but I don't know about 7 figures.

I was just thinking the same regarding The Elephant Man. I don't see any other way they could surpass 100% capacity.

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Remember, OTT is in the largest house on Broadway. It Grossed $834,000, which is enviable to most shows. Only 12 shows had a higher gross, and 22 had worse. It also sold the 4th most tickets of any show. The size of the house is distorting some of the numbers as percentages.

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^^ I thought the Gershwin was the largest house on Broadway?

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As discussed in another thread, there is also the consideration that if they don't earn a certain gross for a certain amount of weeks (determined in the contract between the theatre and the show), the theatre has the right to evict the show. I would guess that would be the main threat to the show lasting at the moment. If the running costs are in the rumored $600,000 range, then I would imagine the producers are at least satisfied with the current numbers for the time being (especially with the Holiday season coming soon). But, if it's not meeting the agreed-upon figure between theatre and production (which, who knows what that is), then the theatre might be more interested in exploring other options of shows they think will could sell better in their space.

Glad to see most shows up this week – although, after last week's dismal sales, the grosses almost had to go up.

Updated On: 11/10/14 at 05:21 PM

I can't imagine anyone getting kicked out of the Lyric. It's simply too big.

I also noted that "if/Then" climbed back only a bit, and in terms of average ticket price, is tanking. And that's a week before Menzel will be out for numerous performances. It will do well through the holidays; past mid-January, dubious, as many before me have opined.

So this week will tank... But this is what really makes me curious: Menzel has been out a few times now, and grosses tanked with the stand-by (no criticism of Burns), yet the producers have still chosen to let Burns on again for this planned vacation. Does it logically follow that the losses are still above nut, making it worthwhile to keep the show running instead of going dark? Or is there some other reason to do it despite losses..

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Regarding the Elephant Man, apperantly they do offer SRO as long as they're completely sold out

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According to IBDB, the Gershwin has 1,935 seats compared to the Lyric's 1,829 seats.

And then there's the performances of Wicked when they use the full rear mezzanine, which they've only been doing since the seats were replaced a year ago. That increases the Gershwin's capacity to 1928.

The last four rows on the sides of the rear mezzanine were walled off before Oklahoma moved in back in 2002. Those seats were not used until all of the seating was replaced just before Wicked's 10th anniversary last year. They don't sell them during slower times though.