Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:10pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending #dateformat(gettopweek.weekending,'m/d/yyyy')# in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

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

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:13pm

Spring Awakening had 84%!It did much better in grosses this week. Company had a huge jump this week. A lot of shows improved a lot this week.

Updated On: 1/3/07 at 12:13 PM

#3

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:14pm

Wow. That's got to be one of the Best Broadway weeks of the entire 06

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:18pm

Actually, according to some of the press, it's the best week in Broadway history. The week between Xmas and New Years is always the best of the year, but between most shows doing a 9 show week and extra premium seating, this week's gross topped $25 million, breaking the record set the same week last year by $3 million.

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Updated On: 1/3/07 at 12:18 PM

#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:19pm

The Daily News (among others, I'm sure) also mentioned today that the best week ever notation should come with the asterisk that a lot of shows also bumped up their ticket prices about $20 for the holiday period.

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:24pm

nice. I like the looks of those numbers. I also like the words *record* and *breaking* :)

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:49pm

im surprised that color purple and vertical hour both bucked the holiday trend and didnt draw in the holiday crowds.

and im a lil nervous that at their holiday peak, spring awakening, company and grey gardens didnt pack them in, with february looming.

but still, glad bway is doing well.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:49pm

Holy... Wow! Some shows like The Producers more than doubled their previous weeks totals. That's awesome! It's not surprising that ticket prices were probably bumped up, discounts almost non existent, and other things which skewed the actual total, but still, the numbers are still very positive.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 12:56pm

all I have to say is THE WEDDING SINGER deserved numbers like that every week

but yeah, I'm also a bit nervous, mostly for GREY GARDENS- it deserves better numbers than that
best of luck to it- it is the by far the best show on Broadway that has opened this season!

Updated On: 1/3/07 at 12:56 PM

#10

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:03pm

Wow. Those are some fantastic numbers across the board, with plenty of full-capacities! Good job, Broadway.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:34pm

A great week for pretty much everyone, but the coming 2 months will be the real test for many shows. We'll see how things turn out.

#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:18pm

Wow Wedding Singer more than doubled it's gross! They made almost a $500,000 profit! Hopefully that can help them recover some of the losses they made and further develop plans for a tour!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:14pm

keep climbing Spring Awakening and am thrilled to see Company's jump!!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:16pm

Wow, I think this is the first time "Tarzan" has it a million, correct or no?

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:28pm

Keep on climbing that capacity ladder, Spring Awakening, so that all shall know the wonder.

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:29pm

TWSfan your correct. The closet before this week they had to a million was the Thanksgiving day week where they grossed something in the 900,000. I'm very happy Drowsy Chap climbed back up from last week that show was amazing and it deserves to stay on broadway. I'm so glad that Tarzan is doing good as well.

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:17pm

Updated On: 1/3/07 at 05:17 PM

#18

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:17pm

glad for wedding singer, hairspray, and tarzan

come on apple tree and little dog laughed!

The bottom capicities were all around the 80s excluding little dog

Updated On: 1/3/07 at 05:17 PM

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:32pm

I'm so happy for everything! I think it's sad that this is the best news I have heard all week.

Spring Awakening needs to keep climbing, and A Chorus Line needs to stay exactly where it is right now.

Company & Grey Gardens needs to at least try and maintain those numbers every week.

#20

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:37pm

*tear* if only TWS did that every week. Then we wouldn't have seen a closing show.

But wow- everything did amazing! woahh

#21

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:26pm

That would be fantastic! But sadly, TWS went. And I'm still depressed about it! haha

#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:14pm

The Wedding Singer couldn't even manage to fill more than 60% of the theatre on closing night... if it had done that, it probably would have been full capacity, or ALOT closer.

But if one can't even fill a theatre on closing night, then it deserved to close.

#23

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:29pm

Yeah BROADWAY

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#24

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/2006

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:30pm

That's good news for Broadway...hooray! (I may not be able to afford those price bumps, but it seems that someone sure can)

#25

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Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:43pm

It's "good news" for the producers of Broadway but if the actors, crew or musicains want a raise it's hell to pay.

Looks like the DISNEY shows are around for a long time.