Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/16/20

[Rob]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:05pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/16/2020 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 was: GRAND HORIZONS (7.7%), TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (4.9%), AIN'T TOO PROUD (4.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (4.1%), ALADDIN (3.7%), JAGGED LITTLE PILL (2.7%), THE INHERITANCE (2.4%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1.2%), MEAN GIRLS (0.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! (0.5%), CHICAGO (0.5%), A SOLDIER'S PLAY (0.4%), COME FROM AWAY (0.4%), HADESTOWN (0.3%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.1%), THE LION KING (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (-12.1%), FROZEN (-3.5%), WICKED (-2.2%), BEETLEJUICE (-0.4%), HAMILTON (-0.1%),

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Sponsored By: The Book of Mormon - The New York Times calls The Book of Mormon "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.

[Luminaire2]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:12pm

Rob said: " Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/16/2020 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. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses...

Up for the week by attendance was: GRAND HORIZONS (7.7%), TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (4.9%), AIN'T TOO PROUD (4.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (4.1%), ALADDIN (3.7%), JAGGED LITTLE PILL (2.7%), THE INHERITANCE (2.4%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1.2%), MEAN GIRLS (0.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! (0.5%), CHICAGO (0.5%), A SOLDIER'S PLAY (0.4%), COME FROM AWAY (0.4%), HADESTOWN (0.3%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (0.1%), THE LION KING (0.1%), Down for the week by attendance was: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (-12.1%), FROZEN (-3.5%), WICKED (-2.2%), BEETLEJUICE (-0.4%), HAMILTON (-0.1%), Click Here to Visit the BroadwayWorld Grosses... Sponsored By: The Book of Mormon - The New York Times calls The Book of Mormon "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical."

 

Six is off to a good start!

[JBroadway]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:31pm

Sad, but not surprised, to see Girl From the North Country's numbers are already less than stellar. 

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:37pm

If only Six could have sold $647 more in ticket sales last week...

 

Gross Total--$666,019

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:39pm

OKBroadwayFan said: "If only Six could have sold $647 more in ticket sales last week...



Gross Total--$666,019"

Why would...... anybody want their gross to be $666,666? From a superstitious position, I’d be unable to shake that lol 

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 3:45pm

GreasedLightning said: "OKBroadwayFan said: "If only Six could have sold $647 more in ticket sales last week...



Gross Total--$666,019"

Why would...... anybody want their gross to be $666,666? From a superstitious position, I’d be unable to shake that lol"

So true...

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 5:13pm

Surprised that JLP's one canceled show was included in their grosses.

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 5:17pm

ACL2006 said: "Surprised that JLP's one canceled show was included in their grosses."

Agree. I guess technically it wasn't cancelled until after the show had begun, but those are lots of refunds and exchanged un-accounted for in the grosses this week. Still a shame what happened either way- I loved the show and I'm very glad it still seems to be doing as well as it is.

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 5:37pm

Omg at The Inheritance numbers ...

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 6:17pm

TINA's numbers continue to amaze me. It's not selling out at 100%, but continues to bring in ~$1.5 million.

[IHeartNY2]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 6:22pm

ACL2006 said: "TINA's numbers continue to amaze me. It's not selling out at 100%, but continues to bring in ~$1.5 million."

Funny I was just wondering why/how Tina's doing considerably better than Cher. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 6:47pm

klinnerz said: "Or actually cast Bernardo with talent."

And off the rails we go.

PS That comment is intellectually unsustainable.

[ParkandBark]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 8:54pm

I have no knowledge of broadway accounting or anything but I just went back through the last couple of weeks of grosses and I notice West Side Story has exactly 100% capacity every single week. Not 1 seat more (standing room?) or less filled at every performance? Every other show even the perennially sold out shows seem to fluctuate a bit on exact seating numbers. Is this some weird reporting or they actually have sold out every show and not done standing room or anything at any performance?

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 8:59pm

ParkandBark said: "I have no knowledge of broadway accounting or anything but I just went back through the last couple of weeks of grosses and I notice West Side Story has exactly 100% capacity every single week. Not 1 seat more (standing room?) or less filled at every performance? Every other show even the perennially sold out shows seem to fluctuate a bit on exact seating numbers. Is this some weird reporting or they actually have sold out every show and not done standing room or anything at any performance?"

The simple explanation here and answer to your questions are a) yes, they have sold out every performance so far and b) perhaps they do not offer standing room at this theater (to my knowledge, they don’t) so if those two statements are true, the capacity percentage would in fact remain unchanged. 

Harry Potter is a good example to look at... 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 10:35pm

It is fairly common not to sell SR during previews. (That said, I don't recall whether there is SR at the Broadway or not.)

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/18/20 at 10:47pm

The Broadway Theater does not have SRO.

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 4:31pm

IHeartNY2 said: "ACL2006 said: "TINA's numbers continue to amaze me. It's not selling out at 100%, but continues to bring in ~$1.5 million."

Funny I was just wondering why/how Tina's doing considerably better than Cher."

No one is doing surveys to get this kind of info but I'd be very curious to at least get anecdotal reports about demographic breakdowns from theater staff. My guess would be that for whatever reason, Cher didn't pull in many people outside of the typical Broadway audience and Tina is doing just that. Also, I feel like audiences have rejected the idea of splitting the lead role into 3 parts in a biomusical.

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 4:35pm

Tina's story is more appealing than Cher's? I think a lot of ppl watched What's Love Got to Do With It and identified with Tina.

[itsjustmejonhotmailcom]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 4:38pm

VintageSnarker said: "IHeartNY2 said: "ACL2006 said: "TINA's numbers continue to amaze me. It's not selling out at 100%, but continues to bring in ~$1.5 million."

Funny I was just wondering why/how Tina's doing considerably better than Cher."

No one is doing surveys to get this kind of info but I'd be very curious to at least get anecdotal reports about demographic breakdowns from theater staff. My guess would be that for whatever reason, Cher didn't pull in many people outside of the typical Broadway audience and Tina is doing just that. Also, I feel like audiences have rejected the idea of splitting the leadrole into 3 parts in a biomusical."

Actually these surveys are done. The Broadway League releases the results in aggregate. But the shows can get the info for just their show.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 6:21pm

poisonivy2 said: "Tina's story is more appealing than Cher's? I think a lot of ppl watched What's Love Got to Do With It and identified with Tina."

You mean a 27-year old film is influencing today's audiences?

P.S.  Which "persona"  are you being now, ivy?  LOL

 

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 7:06pm

JSquared2 said: "poisonivy2 said: "Tina's story is more appealing than Cher's? I think a lot of ppl watched What's Love Got to Do With It and identified with Tina."

You mean a 27-yearold film is influencing today's audiences?

P.S. Which "persona" are you being now, ivy? LOL

"

Um my real one? I'm not trying to start an argument just say that the factors that made What's Love Got to Do With It a hit are what makes Tina the stronger bio musical. Theres a compelling story a juicy villain and Tina's music catalogue.

 

[IHeartNY2]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 7:10pm

I'd say Tina's life story is more compelling, but man, on paper I would have assumed Cher was a slam-dunk 5-year run. 

[ParkandBark]

Posted: 2/20/20 at 11:35pm

is it possible that Cher touring at the same time hurt the show? like, why see the cher show when you could just see Cher herself?