Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/4/18

Dolly managed to do ok. But beginning this week is when the struggle begins. All performances this week have very heavy availability. Ahh winter.

Updated On: 2/5/18 at 03:16 PM

With all the money Bette took in for the box office, do we really need to worry about "Hello Dolly"? You can't tell me the producers didn't make a nice piece of change on the original revival cast, and about able to plow through the deep cold in the winter. Am I missing something?

fashionguru_23 said: "With all the money Bette took in for the box office, do we really need to worry about "Hello Dolly"? You can't tell me the producers didn't make a nice piece of change on the original revival cast, and about able to plow through the deep cold in the winter. Am I missing something?"



Why loose the money when you can keep it? And not worried. It is not my money. Just observing and discussing.

The one bit of good news is that The Children finished (relatively) strong

My uneducated prediction for Hello Dolly is that it will struggle along till the end of Bernadette's contract and then they will close it and use the physical production for the tour. I am just sad to see this hot production become "Discount Dolly".

Updated On: 2/5/18 at 03:37 PM

fashionguru_23 said: "SmokeyLady said: "fashionguru_23 said: "With all the money Bette took in for the box office, do we really need to worry about "Hello Dolly"? You can't tell me the producers didn't make a nice piece of change on the original revival cast, and about able to plow through the deep cold in the winter. Am I missing something?"



Why loose the money when you can keep it? And not worried. It is not my money. Just observing and discussing.

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SmokeyLady, I agree with you. I just don't understand sometimes when some people make out the grosses and ticket sales for "Hello Dolly" that of "Soul Doctor" or "Home for the Holidays"."

It's fine now - if they sustained these numbers I'd be happy for them. I fear that there is about to be a severe drop next week (and perhaps beyond unless things can improve).

Maybe if they will hover around the nut it won't be too bad - but for example, it makes me wonder if they aren't filling the coffers with excess change or if they need a decent reserve for some of the very slow weeks (even if they make up for it in stronger weeks as spring/summer comes) - who is going to shell out for a new cast recording? And will they think twice about continuing after Bernadette?

I mean, I guess we can wait and see - believe me I'm the LAST person that wants to see any sad decline in numbers. I'm just fearful it might happen.

Updated On: 2/5/18 at 03:44 PM

Princeton2 said: "whilst Bette brought in a lot of money, she cost a lot too. this cast will be a lot cheaper to maintain so they may not need to take as much as you'd expect "

They do need to cover their costs and make some profit . This A not a cheap show to run.

Updated On: 2/5/18 at 04:00 PM

Wick3 said: "For Hello Dolly, is there a discount code out there for Bernadette? I'm hesitant to seeing it at the moment because it's in previews."

It’s on TodaYTix. I paid $41 and had pretty fantastic seats (front mezzanine, only had to slightly adjust my posture when they went down in front of the pit). Highly recommend.