Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/1/24

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHICAGO (35.4%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (18.3%), & JULIET (9.6%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (9.5%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (9.3%), THE NOTEBOOK (8.8%), THE GREAT GATSBY (8.8%), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (7.3%), HADESTOWN (6.6%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (5.1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (4.8%), SIX (4.8%), STEREOPHONIC (4.7%), HELL'S KITCHEN (3.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (2.4%), ROMEO + JULIET (1.6%), SUFFS (1.6%), HAMILTON (1.5%), THE OUTSIDERS (1%), ALADDIN (0.6%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.3%), ELF (0.3%), LEFT ON TENTH (0.2%), THE LION KING (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SWEPT AWAY (-10.8%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (-9.8%), GYPSY (-7.5%), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (-6.7%), OUR TOWN (-3.8%), SUNSET BLVD. (-2.2%), TAMMY FAYE (-2.2%), CULT OF LOVE (-0.7%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-0.7%), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (-0.5%), THE ROOMMATE (-0.2%),

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TigerBait88 said: "Yes yes Debbie Downers…we know this isn’t quite a money making week for Maybe Happy Ending but it’s continued improvement and shows a 750k/90% week is within reach. Baby steps…I believe this show can make it!!"

What makes their operating costs so high for such a small cast? Is it due to the technical elements?

IdinaBellFoster said: "TigerBait88 said: "Yes yes Debbie Downers…we know this isn’t quite a money making week for Maybe Happy Ending but it’s continued improvement and shows a 750k/90% week is within reach. Baby steps…I believe this show can make it!!"

What makes their operating costs so high for such a small cast? Is it due to the technical elements?"

Yes and the higher rent/operating costs (or so I’ve read) of the theatre but yeah…mostly the tech elements are what’s to blame.

I think even a 4 person, straight-play with a fixed unit set would still probably cost $550,000 these days. It's just what it costs, and why it baffles me why anyone would want to produce a Broadway show.

Ravanne_1 said: "IdinaBellFoster said: "Thrilled to see MAYBE HAPPY ENDING gaining momentum!"

This is mostly really good news for MHE. Average ticket price is finally over $100 and they broke the $700k mark for the week. But it something of a mixed back because despite being a holiday week, capacity was at 88%. Still, these are much better numbers for MHE and this is the first week that they came close to (or actually managed to) cover their operating costs.This was a holiday week and most shows were up significantly, Many by a lot more. We know that the holiday season is usually some of the best time for shows because of all the tourists so we need to see how well they sustain these numbers. Still, this is excellent news for the show.”

“Many by a lot more?” Huh? Unless I am misunderstanding what you meant, only four shows had higher capacity increases than MHE…

That being said, I get it’s a tiny bit worrying it didn’t do even better on a holiday weekend but quite a few of its new show rivals had objectively BAD Thanksgiving weekends. I’ll take this all day. Onward and upward. 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "What’s the house record for the Marquis? That has be close to it, no?"

BEETLEJUICE grossed $2,462,831 in its penultimate week."

Beetlejuice actually holds two records - the number EDSOSLO858 quoted is for a nine-performance week. They also have the eight-performance week record at the Marquis with $2,146,200.

Maybe Elf will break the eight-performance week record Christmas week? It will probably be close. Good for them - I loved it. 
 

Updated On: 12/3/24 at 03:12 PM

Yikes Tammy! Those numbers are even worse than last week, I can't believe it's playing at 38% capacity, the palace must be a ghosttown. It must be so hard for the entire cast, it should have closed before Thanksgiving. 

 

So happy for Death becomes her! Swept away and A wonderful world are definitely in trouble and might close by January, terrible numbers. MHE seems to have increased but I'm not sure it's strong enough to survive the entire winter 

Updated On: 12/3/24 at 03:16 PM

It's nice to see Back To The Future doing well again.  I hope these last few weeks are kind to them.

scripps said: "What a mistake it was to bring Swept Away in for a commercial run. One could argue that they couldn't have picked a worse time of year to open but was there ever a good time? At least we have a cast recording to look forward to."

Shows like swept away and maybe happy ending didn’t get a choice when to come in. The offer was made Nd they accepted or not.  Neither are we’re or are expected to run beyond  early winter and have shows behind them for the spring  

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wonderul world is a little different with its connection to roundabout 

Updated On: 12/3/24 at 03:36 PM

TigerBait88 said: "IdinaBellFoster said: "TigerBait88 said: "Yes yes Debbie Downers…we know this isn’t quite a money making week for Maybe Happy Ending but it’s continued improvement and shows a 750k/90% week is within reach. Baby steps…I believe this show can make it!!"

What makes their operating costs so high for such a small cast? Is it due to the technical elements?"

Yes and the higher rent/operating costs (or so I’ve read) of the theatre but yeah…mostly the tech elements are what’s to blame."

I also don't fully understand how tech elements can be that expensive *per week.* Even though Maybe Happy Ending has a small cast, is the production renting super hi-tech equipment that can only be used by a trained/licensed professional(s) that cost $$$ per week? Sometimes I wonder if these tech folks earn more than the cast!

Updated On: 12/3/24 at 03:44 PM