Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/20

[Rob]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:14pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/20/2009 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

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:16pm

Ouch for Memphis. Does anyone know their nut?

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:18pm

NIGHT MUSIC had the highest attendance of the week..

[alightinthedark23]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:18pm

Wow, look at A Little Night Music. That's great for them!

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:22pm

Ouch for Memphis. Wonder how long they'll last.

Yay for Ragtime's jump!

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:23pm

According to the NY Times, MEMPHIS has not had a week below nut. I'm sure they are fine.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:27pm

Wow! Very odd week. The shows grosses were all over the place. Some were really up, somewhat stable or took a nose-dive. Also, it's the same story with attendance.

[binau]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:29pm

Thoughts on how Next to Normal is going?

[Elke]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:38pm

It may not be a huge jump in grosses, but I'm still thrilled about Ragtime's increasing numbers.

Sorry to see that drop for Memphis though. But I'm sure they'll be fine. I think they are doing well with groups, so they probably have a nice advance sale from that.

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:43pm

Ouch for Memphis, indeed. Also, South Pacific's attendance dropped by almost 13%. I know the show is in no trouble financially...it's all profit now, but still, it's not enjoyable to see large drops like that.

I hope Ragtime keeps increasing! The show deserves it. And what a wonderful week for Night Music! I'm so glad to see such a wonderful show doing so well. Of course, I haven't seen the production (YET) so, my opinions are solely based on the show itself.

[singtopher]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:44pm

Hopefully the TV spots Ragtime is doing will help increase their audience even more.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Next to Normal's nut is reported to be around $275K, so they are making that, albeit not by a huge margin.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 3:50pm

Yay for "Shrek!" I hope it goes out with a bang!

[Smaxie]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:10pm

Ragtime's gross though is at the expense of their average ticket price, which is now hitting half-price levels.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:11pm

This week was a strange gross week. What is with the big drop(not that they need to worry) in Mamma Mia's gross.

[Oldschool]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:18pm

Smaxie, better that Ragtime get their weekly gross up than stand on ceremony on ticket prices. For those of us who think this is a worthy production, getting people into the seats helps sell the show in the short term by getting the word out with the hope that it will feed momentum and get them over the hump of this economy.

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:30pm

Woah, I wonder if ALNM can make it over a million in the coming weeks?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:33pm

>Smaxie, better that Ragtime get their weekly gross up than stand on ceremony on ticket prices.<

The problem is that they are discounting by half now, four weeks after opening and still likely running below their operating cost. What's going to happen in January and February?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:52pm

Still, Ragtime has put over 2,000 more people in the theatre this week than compared to 2 weeks ago. That's a lot more people to start spreading the word about this wonderful show. I'm really hoping to see a nice jump in grosses for this week as they're playing 9 shows this week(Mon @ 8pm, Tue @7pm, Wed @ 2pm & 8pm, Thurs @ 2pm, Fri-DARK, Sat @ 2pm & 8pm, Sun @ 2pm & 7:30pm). Keep it up Ragtime!!!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 4:59pm

I wonder what effect the storm had on the traditionally big Saturday evening performances. It may account for some of the fluctuations.

Glad to see RAGTIME continuing to improve, but at the same time FINIAN'S RAINBOW is down after a few weeks of steady growth.

[evic]

Posted: 12/21/09 at 5:15pm

The numbers are gross/gross....I believe a 3-5% reduction gives the true numbers....the future does not look good for some shows with the Jan- March slowdown coming. But if the producers have deep pockets perhaps some may be saved. Will be curious to see what losses the producers admit to for the Shrek debacle.

[mina3]

Posted: 12/22/09 at 12:38am

The storm on Saturday seriously impacted day-of sales on both Saturday and Sunday, and for shows that traditionally do a lot of business day-of (i.e. Next to Normal), that was pretty unfortunate. I don't think this week is really much to go by as far as how shows are selling - ALNM, for instance, probably sold most of its tickets way in advance, but shows that get more last-minute business were down because of the weather.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 12/22/09 at 11:47am

Well, on the bright side, seeing that Christmas break has started for a great deal of tourists, next week's numbers should be pretty good.

[aliceidinabernadette]

Posted: 12/22/09 at 5:00pm

Yay for Ragtime! Let's hope it keeps increasing!

[Barney Stinson]

Posted: 12/23/09 at 10:36am

evic - regarding Shrek - you can actually look up some rough numbers from the Dreamworks public filings. Bottom line, they are taking a major bath - as in a $15-20 mil loss. When their 2009 10K comes out this spring, you'll see that they got crushed. Even with a few huge weeks in December, they would have been better off financially had they just shuttered immediately when they made the closing announcement.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 12/23/09 at 7:29pm

I'm thinking they are going to use many of the items for the scenery and props for the tour, and the tour will bring in MASSIVE money.