Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:26pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/4/2022 in BroadwayWorld'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.
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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (25.5%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (12.8%), AIN'T NO MO' (12.3%), THE MUSIC MAN (8.3%), INTO THE WOODS (7.1%), FUNNY GIRL (6.7%), TAKE ME OUT (6.4%), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (6.1%), THE PIANO LESSON (5.2%), A STRANGE LOOP (3.3%), OHIO STATE MURDERS (3%), MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN & THE POOL (2.8%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (2.4%), LEOPOLDSTADT (2.1%), THE LION KING (0.8%), ALMOST FAMOUS (0.6%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHICAGO (-12.6%), 1776 (-11.6%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-10.3%), KPOP (-9.9%), & JULIET (-9.6%), BEETLEJUICE (-5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-4.1%), HADESTOWN (-3.9%), WICKED (-3.1%), ALADDIN (-2.7%), HAMILTON (-2.7%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (-2.1%), SIX (-1.6%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.4%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.3%),
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hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:28pm
Wow the numbers for MJ are amazing!!
ElephantLoveMedley
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:30pm
Omg, Ain't No Mo' and KPOP are absolutely hemorrhaging money.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:47pm
So glad to see A Christmas Carol climbing! An absolutely incredible production that deserves to be a great success.
I really don't know how KPOP hasn't announced a closing. I mean, unless they plan on dropping more money to revitalize their ad campaign in a whole new direction, what, at this point, would move the needle for them at all? Do they really plan on trying to wait until the album drops in February???
In days of yore, many of these new plays would have sadly closed up shop already. I think this fall season has simply been far too packed and there isn't enough audience to support all these plays. Worried about Ain't No Mo and Ohio State Murders (neither of which is running a successful ad campaign right now). Didn't expect them to be record breaking sell outs, but also definitely never expected the numbers to be this dire.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:49pm
It’s just amazing that Hamilton, Harry Potter, The Lion King, and Wicked are all down 500,000 dollars or so from last week and that’s just a drop in the bucket for them.
I feel bad for everyone at KPop it definitely deserved better. I wonder how it might have faired had this production done an off Broadway run first before hitting broadway. I think they relied on the hype from the Ars Nova production/run too much.
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Updated On: 12/6/22 at 01:49 PM
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:50pm
I might be wrong but Ohio State Murders is still doing better than Audra’s last play “Frankie and Johnny”, isn’t it?
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:58pm
Jordan Catalano said: "I might be wrong but Ohio State Murders is still doing better than Audra’s last play “Frankie and Johnny”, isn’t it?"
The average ticket price for Ohio State Murders is higher than it was for Frankie and Johnny, but Frankie and Johnny was doing better in terms of their capacity percentage. The numbers for the past two weeks of Ohio State Murders is below what the numbers were for the first few weeks of Frankie and Johnny.
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:58pm
MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "So glad to see A Christmas Carol climbing! An absolutely incredible production that deserves to be a great success.
I really don't know how KPOP hasn't announced a closing. I mean, unless they plan on dropping more money to revitalize their ad campaign in a whole new direction, what, at this point, would move the needle for them at all? Do they really plan on trying to wait until the album drops in February???
In days of yore, many of these new plays would have sadly closed up shop already. I think this fall season has simply been far too packed and there isn't enough audience to support all these plays. Worried about Ain't No Mo and Ohio State Murders (neither of which is running a successful ad campaign right now). Didn't expect them to be record breaking sell outs, but also definitely never expected the numbers to be this dire."
I was thinking the same about KPOP.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 1:59pm
Jordan Catalano said: "I might be wrong but Ohio State Murders is still doing better than Audra’s last play “Frankie and Johnny”, isn’t it?
The information is at your fingertips!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/FRANKIE-AND-JOHNNY-IN-THE-CLAIR-DE-LUNE
It's about on par with Frankie & Johnny, if not slightly worse.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:03pm
I think we can officially say Kimberly Akimbo is becoming the little show that could sleeper hit. I was expecting a drop considering the week prior was Thanksgiving, but the fact it's flat, but technically up week over week is an extremely positive sign for the shows word of mouth!
Updated On: 12/6/22 at 02:03 PM
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:04pm
OMG!!!! Kimberly Akimbo!!!!! Seriously so happy for that show.
I think we can say it's legitimately trending upward. But to trend upward Thanksgiving week when many other bridge-and-tunnel shows trended down and then to improve on Thanksgiving week this week is impressive (even if it's just a bit better).
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:05pm
I agree bdn223. It's also a show that had almost zero advance before starting, one of the worst I feel I've ever seen in recent years - yet it actually managed to get by and has grown in steam all on its own own footing. I hope they can ride it out and hopefully win Best Musical and become the next Fun Home, Gentlemen's Guide etc.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:06pm
I used to have a real issue with Tony winning shows having multitudes of 'producers' go up on stage to get their Tony award, basically for investing in a show. Post-Covid, I no longer have that issue. Looking at the grosses of so many decently-to-very-well-reviewed shows -- that are not multi- year musicals and do not have huge stars -- I have been won over. Some of these grosses really are positively sad. I have to imagine that anyone investing right now must more than ever know they are very likely to lose their investment.
I doubt, for instance, that anyone who invested in Kimberly Akimbo ever expected it to become a hot ticket or that Riverside or Top Dog or Ain't No or Ohio State or a lot from last season that have already closed would return their investments.
I assume that the investors of &Juliet and SLIH and Beautiful Noise and Almost Famous all thought they had a chance. I am very surprised that &Juliet is not doing better than it is, a couple of weeks after getting reviews that should sell tickets; amazed that SLIH is doing so badly in previews and clearly needs mega-raves to stand a chance or returning its investment (cause there's no interest out there in the absence of reviews) and am already assuming the remaining two are going to lose their investments. It looks to me like Voice's advance is already starting to lose steam, and I doubt the reviews are going to help at all.
So, thank goodness for the people who invest in these shows, knowing the likelihood of losing their investment is for now higher than ever. As has been said before, if a lot of people are going to purchase tickets right now, they want a safe bet and, in a lot of cases, what is a safer bet than re-attending the show you loved previously.
Final thought: Leopoldstadt is an exception, sort of 'event theatre', the theme, the size of the cast, the author, the prestige. Even The Piano Lesson would have been selling out pre-Covid (IMO -- no way to prove).
Finally, the producers of Funny Girl should be getting down on their knees and giving thanks for Lea Michele.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:10pm
Kimberly’s grosses are nearly identical to Fun Home and Gentleman’s Guide at this point in those show’s runs. KA’s average price is about $10 higher ($108). Gent’s had a tough winter and survived by priority loan; FH opened right before the Tonys and then got a boost. But those were also 7/8 years ago so with inflation Kimberly’s numbers aren’t great.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:10pm
the Ohio State Murders ad campaign feels like the teasers for an indie film before the trailer drops, but no, that’s the whole ad campaign.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:12pm
Would it be wrong to say that & Juliet will close in the spring and become a cult classic?
Oh look, a bibu!
ElephantLoveMedley
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:13pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Would it be wrong to say that& Julietwill close in the spring and become a cult classic?"
...what would make you say that?
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:14pm
ElephantLoveMedley said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Would it be wrong to say that& Julietwill close in the spring and become a cult classic?"
...what would make you say that?"
As Jarethan said, it feels like the show should be doing better than it is, especially with the reviews it got. That and the impending January drop-off.
Oh look, a bibu!
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:26pm
“Would it be wrong to say that & Juliet will close in the spring and become a cult classic?”
it would be very wrong.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:32pm
& Juliet just had its 2nd highest grossing week ever on Broadway and is above $1 million. I mean, I don't know if it will be successful (it had been struggling in the West End for a long time though shows there have a different cost base). But I think it is too early to call its closure. If a show grosses 1 million and we are already predicting its demise I don't know what that says about the state of Broadway economics.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:40pm
I think it says that people on this board are just doomers or aren't actually in tune with the economics of Broadway. We'll see how it does, but I have trouble saying that any show in a mid-size house is doomed to close when it's making $1 million per week.
BETTY22
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:41pm
'Some Like It Hot' is in trouble - they are going to need raves Sunday.
It's an expensive show.
What went wrong? I'm guessing we are not going to see another 'man in a dress' musical for a long time.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:42pm
ElephantLoveMedley said: "Omg,Ain't No Mo'andKPOPare absolutelyhemorrhaging money."
It's dumbfounding that the producers continue to keep these shows open.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4/22
Posted: 12/6/22 at 2:45pm
ACL2006 said: "ElephantLoveMedley said: "Omg,Ain't No Mo'andKPOPare absolutelyhemorrhaging money."
It's dumbfounding that the producers continue to keep these shows open."
Ain't No Mo' is supposed to close in February...do you think it'll last?
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