Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/11/18

Not looking great for Dolly. Impressive that Dear Evan Hansen grossed higher than Wicked, Aladdin and The Book of Mormon.

It seems clear now that Spongebob will never be a hit; I wonder if they'll try to stay open, hoping for (nonexistent) Tony Awards.

DAME said: "qolbinau said: "Dolly had A LOT of tickets to push at the last minute last week and managed to get rid of most of them. Impressive. While it’s a decline I can see within the context of all the other declines that it’s part of that time of year. The Wicked grosses - they mist be among their lowest ever! "

That’s because they papered heavily , I suspect this week will be heavily comped as well as they are about to be reviewed."

I understand there were comps but given the average ticket price is close to $100 surely it can’t have been just explained by comping. They would have had to sell tickets to get there.

SpongeBob does not have a shot at any Tony wins, but will CERTAINLY garner nominations for Slater as well as the show itself, Landau's direction, and the book and score seem highly like to get nods, too. Not saying that's going to help its grosses much, though.

Do we think The Band's Visit is meeting its nut? I'm really bad at estimating these things. It doesn't seem all that expensive to run compared to other big musicals, but also doesn't seem like a tiny running cost either - especially with all those musicians.

I've also heard The Band's Visit has a pretty nice advance, which is probably helpful in these less plush months. That being said, it is still doing fine and will do considerably better come spring and post-Tonys (after it inevitably wins best musical).

SPONGEBOB can't have that much long. It'll probably do well come Spring break, but are the producers willing to keep the show open through the Tony Awards,



And anyone else thinking THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG won't last until July?

ACL2006 said: "And anyone else thinking THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG won't last until July?"

I think it will do fine. The running costs are under $300k a week which has only happened 4 times out of the run so far, one of which wasn’t playing the full 8. By my math it’s made 4.5 million in profit, and producers have said they have already recouped over 50% of the 4 million capitalization as of November 2nd. I’d say they’ll close it in July recouping shortly before

Updated On: 2/12/18 at 05:12 PM

I'm more than happy to admit schadenfreude re: Spongebob. I think that he wore out his welcome in Times Square well before his show booked a theatre.

All joking aside, I think that this is a refreshing sign, that shows like Spongebob and Spider-Man flop and more original shows like Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, et al. are smash hits. This is to say nothing about the quality of either of the aforementioned shows, but I know that most of us on this forum would prefer this trend to continue rather than see Broadway turned into another Disney World/Universal Studios. (incidentally, where Spongebob and his show belong.)

Updated On: 2/13/18 at 12:05 AM

Jason Shatz said: "I'm more than happy to admit schadenfreude re: Spongebob. I think that he wore out his welcome in Times Square well before his show booked a theatre.

All joking aside, I think that this is a refreshing sign, that shows like Spongebob and Spider-Man flop and more original shows like Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, et al. are smash hits. This is to say nothing about the quality of either of the aforementioned shows, but I know that most of us on this forum would prefer this trend to continue rather than see Broadway turned into another Disney World/Universal Studios. (incidentally, where Spongebob and his show belong.)

"

Except lots of people here have loved this.

"Except lots of people here have loved this." (Spongebob)

Every flop has its fans, and dreck can often be very, very popular. This time, it seems to be not so popular.