Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/3/2006

[Rob]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/3/2006 in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:07pm

I think those are a bit messed up

like some shows have .1% attendance, others have like 137% and such

yeah

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:07pm

Wicke dis playing at 175% capacity? Is that even possible?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:09pm

Ummmmmmmm......... what's up with the stats? It looks like a lot of data didn't get entered correctly in the right columns or something.....

[Heybeenfood]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:11pm

Here is the correct one http://www.playbill.com/news/article/103993
What was up with Voyage? Less than half the theater? Were there a lot of comps.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:11pm

??????????????????????

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:13pm

Holly, Spring Awakening better try to find a lot more fans soon or pray for perfect reviews...

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:17pm

Thanks for the playbill link! Looks like most shows saw a drop after the holiday weekend. Hopefully Company starts going up soon.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:24pm

Looks like they're fixed now.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:24pm

All the shows I want to see have horrible attendance.
Sigh.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:27pm

Spring Awakening is improving a little.

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:30pm

Uhhh, they lost money, love...

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:31pm

Actually Spring Awakening went DOWN in gross a few hundred dollars.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:36pm

Tarzan beat out Beauty

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:41pm

Lord help Spring Awakening.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 6:51pm

I was just looking at the attendance for Spring Awakening.
Updated On: 12/4/06 at 06:51 PM

[lite2shine]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:08pm

I guess a week after Thanksgiving is time to be on Broadway. Almost all the shows' attendance went down. Even Wicked is below 100%! Spring Awakening really needs more exposures. Will there be any TV appearance? What their PR people doing? Make them earn their salary!

[mikem]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:17pm

An interesting note about the Coast of Utopia:

The show is unique in that it only had one performance (the opening night performance) during its opening week, which is quite illuminating for those of us trying to get a handle on the whole comp issue. For that one performance (which I assume was a capacity crowd -- was anyone there who can shed some light?), there were 453 paid tickets, which means 594 unpaid tickets for opening night. The play ran for 4 performances in the preceding week, which I assume is when critics saw the show. For that week, the percent attendance actually went up in comparison to the previous week, which is extremely unusual. There were a maximum of 303 unpaid tickets total for those 4 performances, assuming each of the shows was a capacity crowd. The show ran at an average of 93.7% capacity during previews -- if we assume that number held true for the final preview week, we would have had 39 comp tickets for critics (and otherwise). In reality, the show has been picking up steam, so the true number of unpaid tickets during the last week of previews is probably somewhere between 39 and 303.

I did a previous analysis for Three Days of Rain, in which I calculated that there were about 650 comps given out during its opening week, which I thought was a lot, but is in line with what we're seeing here (and actually, the number of comps for Utopia was probably more than that -- 650 comps would mean that 28 critics saw the show, and I'm guessing there were more than 28 critics on their press list).

(I just wanted to add that yes, I like math and I know I'm a numbers geek!)

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:21pm

The Producers

Oy Vey

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:22pm

Very interesting, Mikem.

[Heybeenfood]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:40pm

The Coast of Utopia was not on TKTS all of last week so I assume almost all of the rest were sold but unpaid.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 7:56pm

Well lite2sunshine, the CD is coming out two days after the show opens. They have an appearance booked at the Apple Store in Soho the day after the CD comes out. That ought to help somewhat.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 9:03pm

WTF happened to Coast of Utopia? Will this really be able to last until all three shows are done?

[jv92]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 9:09pm

Well, Grey Gardens is doing better than most expected. God Bless Ben Brantley.

[James2]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 9:11pm

Company is improving, but I hope it gets better. I want it to last to April! (I think it will, but one cannot be too sure)