Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:19pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/6/2009 in BroadwayWorld.com'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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:24pm
Night Music had another great week, and they only had 7 performances.
Finian actually went up. Good for them.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:25pmThere goes the idea Ragtime is building steam...to bad...
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:28pmPhantom dropping 20%, not that it matters to them, but still, that's a crazy dip!
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:29pmpoor Ragtime, I was really hoping to see better numbers for them. And does Hair not have any discounts out now?? It has a $91 average ticket but it's capacity numbers are low.
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.
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:30pm
Nice to see the drops not so bad. Nice to see White Christmas back to where they were last year making over a million a week. Also, nice to see Finian's Rainbow have a little more money last week.
Bye, Bye, Ragtime.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:38pm
With the economy the way it is right now, a lot of people are holding on tightly to their disposable income.
Unless the serious, dramatic stuff either musical (Ragtime) or play (God of Carnage/Oleanna) has a must-see star in it, it is less likely to succeed in this climate. (Just my opinion of course.)
To bring in the bucks — bring in the fun.
MarkK
Featured Actor Joined: 5/8/05
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 4:34pm
Good job Finian's !!
Ouch Ragtime is not looking good right now.
Goldenboy2
Understudy Joined: 12/3/09
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 6:53pmThat's just it, not looking good right now. All of that can change in the weeks to come. Publicity hasn't been the greatest but I hear it should start picking up. Whoopi was the beginning.
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 6:58pmThe change needs to come sooner than 'weeks to come', for Ragtime to stay open.
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#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 7:05pm
FINIAN'S RAINBOW is building. It's building slowly, but at least making gains. It's a light, fun show and shoudl do well over teh holidays. But, given the reviews, it should be doing better.
RAGTIME should be doing a lot better, and this will be the decision week for the producers. It seems all the New York area people who wanted to see it, went to Washington last spring and saw it there.
HAIR is running out of steam. I wonder if when the show moves to London in the spring, the producers will elect not to replace the cast and call it a run.
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#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 7:09pmI really don't think the running cost is over 600k, so I highly doubt they are doing terrible.
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 7:16pmIt's a shame Ragtime isn't doing better. Such an excellent production of a great show.
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Mr Roxy
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#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 8:04pmHair should be doing blockbuster business but it is just lying there.Ditto for Ragtime & Finians
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#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:45pmHair's #'s may be slipping but I don't think the producers have much to worry about. Even in a bad week they still made more than $700K, and they've recouped awhile ago. I seriously doubt their running cost is above $500k. I predict the numbers will go up come spring break with all the college kids descending upon the city.
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#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:12pm
I'd like to request that in honor of Garth Drabinsky's planned return to producing all Ragtime grosses for this month be artificially inflated by 25%.
Updated On: 12/7/09 at 10:12 PM
#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6
Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:44pmHair's not in any trouble. Despite some low capacity numbers, their grosses are still very good. And for a show with almost no set and a few costume changes, their running costs can't be that high.
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.
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