Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/25/22

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (9%), TAKE ME OUT (7.7%), CHICAGO (5.5%), AIN'T NO MO' (5.2%), & JULIET (4.7%), BEETLEJUICE (4.7%), ALADDIN (3.3%), FUNNY GIRL (3.2%), ALMOST FAMOUS (1.8%), LEOPOLDSTADT (0.9%), HADESTOWN (0.8%), HAMILTON (0.6%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (-24.4%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (-21.5%), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (-21.4%), 1776 (-18.3%), THE PIANO LESSON (-13%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (-10.3%), MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN & THE POOL (-10.1%), OHIO STATE MURDERS (-8.2%), BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY (-7.5%), A STRANGE LOOP (-6.1%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (-4.5%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-4.5%), INTO THE WOODS (-4.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-3.8%), THE MUSIC MAN (-2.8%), WICKED (-1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-1%), THE LION KING (-0.9%), SIX (-0.3%),

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That's a real awkward Christmas week...

Disappointed to see Leopoldstadt drop so much! I'm hoping the next two weeks are good business for them! 

Yikes.

I have tickets for 1776 and Ohio State Murders Sat Jan 7 and neither show is very well sold. The seats I have are quite far off to the side (LincTix/HipTix)...with the theatre so empty, what's the protocol, if there is one, for moving closer? Ask at the box office?

The only time I've ever moved seats, the show closed the balcony and the ushers moved everyone to the mezz (Indecent).

I think the winter storm and its impact on travel really caused this box office hit. I know how lucrative this time can be and to have that thwarted 2 years in a row is a big disappointment. 

I realize most of these #’s are based on a 7 show week but still…those are some drastic drops! What happened to A Beautiful Noise suddenly? And yes, SLIH is really on thin ice at this point. Ouch! 

jacobsnchz14 said: "Of all of this season’s shows, only & Juliet and Ain’t No Mo played to above 90%. The other 15 from this season, along with A Strange Loop, couldn’t crack 80%. ?"

ASL really got battered this week with three cancelled performances due to illness, including the 23rd evening and 24th matinee - both potential big money days.

Not surprising as I mentioned in the other thread at how the non-stop 16 performance stretch over 11 days really battered the main cast and understudies down. 

I can't understand A BEAUTIFUL NOISE's numbers. Well over $1 million the weeks prior and then a drastic drop for this week. Meanwhile, this current week looks solid and will probably be around $1.5 million for a 9 show/week. Really curious to see how it does over the winter.

BroadwayBen said: "Broadway should just take 3 months off and come back in March. Yikes...This is so disheartening..."

Please tell me this is a joke? The industry would struggle more being closed than open. What needs to happen is ticket prices need to be lowered, that can draw audiences in,  and maybe, just maybe have producers not invest so much money into a show that may or may not be a hit. Have the show scaled down a bit. The US economy is still trying hard to recover from the pandemic. No one ever thought this recovery would be a walk in the park on an ordinary Sunday! (Pardon my Sondheim reference, just had to) 

Look at “Dancin”…

The thing that amazes me is that all the war horses did really well; hell, even Chicago went up this week (do they have any stunt casting that I am not aware of?).  Unless something changes, I can (a little exaggeratedly) envision a Broadway someday in which the average age of the shows is 26 years, the only new musicals are Juke Box musicals, and all new shows open for a limited engagement only, with star names helping to entice people to attend.  'See Brad Pitt as Don Q'...'see Sandra Bullock as Hedda Gabler' and etc.  You wanna see something new without a star?? That's strictly off-Broadway (which is fine for people living in NYC, but is going to see further decreases in attendance by even Jerseyites, let alone tourists).  Hell, we have already been heading in that direction for some time...it'll just be moreso.

I can already predict that the old war-horses will do even better next week, FG will break the house record again, that the slightly older newish (newer oldish?) musicals (Hadestown, Moulin Rouge) will do great (because the older musicals are already sold out) and maybe even break house records, that one new musical (&J) will do great, and everything else will do worse (factoring out the 9 vs. 7 performance variable).  And it's still Christmas week. 

If SLIH is heading to the disaster people think is possible (hell, it only grossed $32K more than KA, and $110K less than Almost Famous!!!!), why would anyone want to invest in a new musical?  The difference in business that Piano Lesson is doing relative to Topdog, Death of a Salesman, Riverside, Cost of Living, and etc., is certainly proof of the need for stars.  Does anyone think Piano Lesson would be doing much better than any of the others if it did not have Samuel L Jackson, supported by JD Washington's Broadway debut?

I remember X years ago when a bunch of shows advertised greatly reduced prices for January - March, with a couple of exclusions (Sat pm, President's week-end).  I do not, however, remember if it made a difference.  Does anyone else remember?  Not sure whether any actions will reap positive results, but it would be nice to see some of the theatres housing well reviewed shows at least better attended.

Updated On: 12/27/22 at 07:47 PM