Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:09pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/6/2015 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.
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Up for the week by attendance was: MISERY (12.1%), THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE ON BROADWAY (7.0%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (5.5%), DAMES AT SEA (5.2%), BEAUTIFUL (4.8%), JERSEY BOYS (4.3%), THE KING AND I (4.3%), SPRING AWAKENING (4.1%), A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (3.7%), KINKY BOOTS (3.4%), ON YOUR FEET! (3.2%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (2.9%), LORD OF THE DANCE: DANGEROUS GAMES (2.8%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (2.6%), FUN HOME (1.8%), CHINA DOLL (1.2%), WICKED (0.9%), SYLVIA (0.8%), THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (0.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.4%),
Down for the week by attendance was: MATILDA (-13.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-13.3%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-11.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (-11.3%), CHICAGO (-9.5%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-9.1%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-9.0%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (-7.0%), HAND TO GOD (-6.7%), KING CHARLES III (-6.5%), ALLEGIANCE (-5.1%), THE GIN GAME (-3.1%), THE LION KING (-2.8%), THE COLOR PURPLE (-2.1%), ALADDIN (-1.0%), FOOL FOR LOVE (-0.5%),
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:19pm
Typical pre-holiday lull for many shows...
Up In One
Broadway Star Joined: 5/27/04
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:25pm
Might be to early to tell but as far as last week was concerned it looks like Wayne Brady may keep Kinky Boots in the million dollar club.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:25pm
Are there only 9 weeks out of the year where it isn't a pre-something lull or a post-something lull?!
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:27pm
Allegiance will probably be throwing in the towel soon. Unless this is a Honeymoon in Vegas/Amazing Grace/Dames at Sea thing...
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:28pm
School of Rocks opening night ticket comps would have contributed to its drop. Hopefully it will settle in the 1 million + range. It got great reviews yesterday.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:31pm
Sunny11 said: "School of Rocks opening night ticket comps would have contributed to its drop. "
Nobody said otherwise.
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:34pm
I didn't say anybody did, just commenting.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:37pm
Lord of the Dance is so depressing. I picture it like the opening of Ed Wood, where there's just a few people in the audience and one of them is knitting or something. Only on a much bigger scale.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 3:38pm
This isn't a comment specific to this week, but in general it's crazy to look at the lowest vs. highest grosses. The Lion King made 15x more money this week Dames at Sea. Not only that, but the amount that The Lion King's gross DROPPED from last week, is over 3x Dames at Sea's gross this week, and I'm sure TLK's producers hardly batted an eye.
woeisme3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/15
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:00pm
I know that percentage of possible gross is calculated on prices not including premium seats and that's how we get shows at 120%. But something that surprises me (and maybe shouldn't?) is that An American in Paris is at 93% on gross but only 79% attendance. It seems like a broad difference for a show that isn't selling out. Is it that people would rather not see it at all than settle for bad seats because there's so much dance? Surely the average theatergoer doesn't have particularly strong feelings on the balcony at the Palace do they?
I may be overthinking this or missing something very obvious. It just seems strange to me that the only other shows where the positive difference is more than 3% in seats sold versus percentage earned are the ones that sell out and can demand more money for tickets.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:08pm
Matilda worries me. I hope they stick through it till September.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:14pm
JBroadway said: "This isn't a comment specific to this week, but in general it's crazy to look at the lowest vs. highest grosses. The Lion King made 15x more money this week Dames at Sea. Not only that, but the amount that The Lion King's gross DROPPED from last week, is over 3x Dames at Sea's gross this week, and I'm sure TLK's producers hardly batted an eye. "
What is even more shocking is wickeds drop of 600,000.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:14pm
Sauja, that is an interesting observation.
I'm not sure that just balcony is what's being left empty but I think you have the right idea. As the average ticket price is still $128, people are willing to pay near full price for the show. And with people paying high prices, they can fill ~75% of the seats. I bet if they were discounting more they'd be able to fill it up. The Palace is just simply huge (5th largest I believe)
woeisme3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/15
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:29pm
Matilda at one of it's worst weeks still does better than a lot of other musicals on their best weeks, and it's not like they still have to recoup. I think they'll be fine.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 4:52pm
Call_me_jorge said: "What is even more shocking is wickeds drop of 600,000."
They also did one less show this week.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 5:04pm
Dames At Sea.....OUch
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/7/15 at 6:58pm
Sauja - an interesting observation. If I had to guess, I think that An American in Paris demographics skew older and wealthier to individuals and tourists who who are more likely to spend money at the Metropolitan Opera or the Philharmonic than the average musical. They're more apt to pay more for good seats and are less likely to know about or use discount codes hence American in Paris's high gross potential.
moncruzz
Understudy Joined: 10/20/09
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/8/15 at 1:37am
They are releasing the Allegiance Cast Recording in January. Is that a sign that they have some sort of profit going on? Or are they recording while they can.
It seems they announced Lea Salonga's Fun Home casting this early on, to hint she won't be around for long and hope to boost ticket sales, but it seems that strategy isn't working.
Updated On: 12/8/15 at 01:37 AM
TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/8/15 at 1:42am
I find it crazy that shows in general are 75% sold. Like, there are a lot of theater and other college students around that would love those seats. I don't see harm in just letting them have them VIA a lottery or something.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/8/15 at 8:00am
moncruzz said: "They are releasing the Allegiance Cast Recording in January. Is that a sign that they have some sort of profit going on? "
No.
JM226
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/15
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/8/15 at 8:45am
Allegiance isn't making a profit. The cast recording requires additional working capital from the producing team. They see it as a longterm investment for marketing the show through national and international licensing. $$$
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/6/15
Posted: 12/8/15 at 8:46am
TerrenceIsTheMann said: "I find it crazy that shows in general are 75% sold. Like, there are a lot of theater and other college students around that would love those seats. I don't see harm in just letting them have them VIA a lottery or something."
They're not hiding them. Rush tickets go unsold. It happens.
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