Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:35pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/27/2009 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 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:37pm
And Wicked breaks the record again. Oh my God. Those ticket prices are CRAZY.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:43pm
Oh my god! Wicked's numbers are INSANE! Good for them though, as much as I dislike Wicked (especially it's fans) it's great to see a Broadway show bringing in so much money and helping the theater community.
And good jump for In The Heights, there Attendance may lack at times but their grosses are always pretty solid. On a average week the probably make their nut and then some.
Bye Bye Finian's Rainbow.
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:46pmNot the great grosses this week usually produces.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:47pm
Wicked...wow!
Poor White Christmas, great great cast this year and selling like that 
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edit: I guess the grosses aren't too bad, but attendances I would have thought would have caught on by now!
Updated On: 12/28/09 at 03:47 PM
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:48pm
I guess many people didn't want to pay the full price for Ragtime. That's a crazy attendance percentage drop for a holiday week with a high boost in price. Also, Phantom had a CRAZY boost all around. About 500k more than last week and over a 25% boost in attendance. Nice to Shrek way up. Too bad it wasn't pulling these numbers.
Finian's Rainbow will be gone very soon.
Philly03- Are we both looking at the same numbers? Although they aren't doing as well as last year, they are still impressive numbers. Not many shows are able to maintain over a million for a couple of weeks non-peak.
Updated On: 12/28/09 at 03:48 PM
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:50pm
i agree with ljay, the grosses are pretty lack luster for xmas week. the "family" musicals seem to have fared well, though.
with finians, true their average attendance was close to half, which is pretty awful, but they still grossed close to 600,000 dollars. does anybody know their weekly running costs? i couldnt imagine it being higher than 500,000 a week. i know they have a huge cast and orchestra, but its virtually a one set show, and their arent a crazy amount of costumes or wigs...is anybody in the know?
I'll take the wind and soar.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 3:52pmYay "Wicked," "Mary Poppins," and "Shrek." Looks like "Shrek" will be going out with a bang.
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 4:28pmI think the 'big" week is this coming week.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 4:50pm
It hurts me to see a show like "Finian's Rainbow" to be doing that kind of business. If I was in or near New York I would probably go to see it all the time! I haven't even seen it, but if I were to go to New York it would be the first show I would want to see. It's just sad. Hopefully it will begin pulling better numbers. I don't usually do this very often, but
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#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 4:59pmFR should never of booked the St. James.. It's way too big
Oldschool
Stand-by Joined: 3/3/09
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:14pmI wonder how much the weather played into these numbers. Glad to see Ragtime's numbers up, but they're getting there any which way they can. Don't understand the drop in Finians....It's the economy, stupid....
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:17pmRagtime also played 9 performances.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:21pm
Remember: this week had both a snowstorm (SUNDAY) and then an awful rainstorm (Saturday) which probably hurt everyone.
Still....would have hoped for better for most shows. Poor Finians.....looks like it will leave before I get a chance to see it.
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#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:23pmGranted those two weather events had an adverse effect on day of sales, but this time of year you'd hope that shows would have much stronger advance sales.
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:28pmThe simple fact is, there is little for the non-Broadway audience (ie the non-uber-fans) to connect with in Finians. It's old, it features unknowns (again to the general public) and although we know the opposite to be true, it has nothing to do with their lives. In these days when people are one paycheck from bankruptcy, a leprechaun loses out to a wicked witch every time.
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#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:30pmAny show apart from Jersey Boys who has a minus next to there % should consider announcing, especially this week, which is a shame as I genuinely do not like it when shows make a loss. I am hoping to see Finan's Rainbow and Ragtime when I am over in New York at the end of March, might have to reconsider my options!!
Oldschool
Stand-by Joined: 3/3/09
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:42pmSmaxie, I missed that Ragtime had 9 shows. So if you take the average, you end up around $548K which is only a 1.5% increase in the gross for the week. Not exactly encouraging.
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 5:47pm
Finian's grosses went up more than $60k on a week with two bad storms. The attendance went down, but they made more money. Stop freaking out about it closing.
If anyone is in trouble, it is still Ragtime, which played nine performances this week and still stayed constant ($616,303 * 8/9 = about $548k for an 8 show week). That's only an $8k increase on a holiday week. Their attendance percentage and average price is still incredibly low. Ragtime is MUCH more expensive to run than Finian's is.
Edit to add: Also, I don't think the producers of White Christmas are complaining about low attendance when they have been bringing in more than a million a week consistently.
Updated On: 12/28/09 at 05:47 PM
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 6:08pm
"Shouldn't ROA be a "hit" soon?"
This is what I want to know, too! They have to be close to recouping. I wish they would make an announcement soon.
Jekyll & Hyde back on Broadway! / Rock of Ages - 5 Tony nominations! Awesome!
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 7:57pmWith Ragtime, you have to remember that they are doing better because they were able to fill an extra performance with the same gross as a usual one. You can't say that without the extra performance, all the people who attended the performance wouldn't have gone to another.
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 8:14pmbjh, do you have any idea of finians weekly running cost?
I'll take the wind and soar.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 8:15pm
A boatload of shows that garnered great reviews are tanking. In the past, that would have been enough. Even with the good reviews, absent a star, they are all tanking. Maybe buyers are getting fed up.
I can imagine how bad they will do in the slow months in early 2010. The shows are:
Ragtime - Closing 1/3/10
Finians
Hair
Burn The Floor
Superior Donuts - Closing 1/3/10
In addition, In The Heights should be doing much better.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/27
Posted: 12/28/09 at 8:19pm
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 12/28/09 at 08:19 PM
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