Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/4 — Page 2

^ I certainly understand that a show's success comes down to selling seats, and am interested in understanding the data reported with the grosses each week a little better. I interpreted the show's numbers this week to mean that even though their gross went down, they are not nearly close to their potential gross, and the average ticket price is pretty low, those numbers were partially watered down due to comped tickets, because they sold at 90% seating capacity. If that is incorrect, would you mind explaining to me where I went wrong?

I mean the figure quoted was 600k. Even if it's a tiny bit higher only the last two weeks were they probably really losing money, right? I think now is the point where they risk losing a lot of money if things don't improve...(on top of the capitalization of course)

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Updated On: 12/6/11 at 02:47 AM

littlebutterfly10, all of the opening night comps for BONNIE AND CLYDE are also factored into the 90% attendance figure, so that number is artificially inflated.

And Bonnie and Clyde is heavily comping seats anyway, not just for opening night.

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