Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/3/23- Page 2

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/5/23 at 10:01pm

BETTY22 said: "The HARMONY number makes me very happy.

I LOVE THIS SHOW......."

Why would you be very happy.  It probably lost money last week.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 12/5/23 at 11:05pm

Anyone know what's in the Belasco this spring?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 1:04pm

emlo99 said: "A Beautiful Noise went up! Nice.

Ohio went up too! They had 8 performances instead of 6 like the previous weeks"

These are the times when I miss the "% of gross potential" number that used to be included. While it wasn't the most helpful number in that most people didn't really understand it's impact on the shows' financials, it would help put these "jumps" in grosses into a better context when you could point out that when factoring in the extra performances it was not actually an improvement over the previous week.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/8/23 at 5:16pm

Jarethan said: "BETTY22 said: "The HARMONY number makes me very happy.

I LOVE THIS SHOW......."

Why would you be very happy. It probably lost money last week."

 

Jan-Feb the latest will seal the future fate of this show and believe the Barrymore will be free for a spring musical. The next 3 weeks are crucial for this show.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 12/8/23 at 5:19pm

Jan-Feb the latest will seal the future fate of this show and believe the Barrymore will be free for a spring musical. The next 3 weeks are crucial for this show.

What other shows might have turnover for spring?

[OhHiii]

Posted: 12/8/23 at 5:22pm

AEA AGMA SM said: "emlo99 said: "A Beautiful Noise went up! Nice.

Ohio went up too! They had 8 performances instead of 6 like the previous weeks"

These are the times when I miss the "% of gross potential" number that used to be included. While it wasn't the most helpful number in that most people didn't really understand it's impact on the shows' financials, it would help put these "jumps" in grosses into a better context when you could point out that when factoring in the extra performances it was not actually an improvement over the previous week."

It's no longer included because it was a fake metric in many respects. Since the advent of dynamic pricing, shows started taking to manipulating their gross potential to make it look better when the grosses came out. Some would even comp out unsold seats to fudge a 100% capacity. (Lookin' at you, Harry Potter). Pre-pandemic, people took a lot more stock in the grosses week to week.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/8/23 at 5:25pm

CoffeeBreak said: "Jan-Feb the latest will seal the future fate of this show and believe the Barrymore will be free for a spring musical. The next 3 weeks are crucial for this show.

What other shows might have turnover for spring?"

 

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