Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:21pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/16/2008 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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:23pm

Passing Strange, climbing ever so slowly up. YEAH!

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Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:24pm

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 03:24 PM

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:28pm

I assume August's drop is somewhat due to the fact that it was originally supposed to close Sunday, March 9th...

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:30pm

Wow--HUGE bump for a lot of shows. Spring breaks for colleges? I know they're not for high schools yet... What else could expain a 10% increase almost across the board?

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:32pm

Most colleges started spring break last week (or the week before) and will continue for a couple more weeks, I think.
Glad to see CURTAINS go up, IN THE HEIGHTS with an increase in gross, and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF in the 90s capacity.
HOMECOMING doesn't seem to be doing so great though.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:39pm

Nice leap for GYPSY.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:57pm

Sorry, the question mark meant "is it because of spring break for colleges?" not "are colleges on spring break?" Considering the across the board increases and not just increases in shows that would appeal to the 18-22 demographic and/or their families, that doesn't seem like the only factor.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:58pm

Agreed with everything everyone has said so far!

It makes me kind of sad that Hairspray's attendance percentage is almost 30% higher than Gypsy's, yet it only makes about $100,000 more.

I've come to find that attendance percentage doesn't matter as much as gross.

I assume Gypsy's weekly nut is low, so $536,861 is very good!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:11pm

It looks like PASSING STRANGE may be destined to become this season's JOURNEY'S END.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:31pm

PASSING STRANGE hellz yeah.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:37pm

Unfortunately so, WannaBe. Oh well.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:39pm

I just checked the grosses for JOURNEY'S END. They really plummeted in April + May.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:40pm

Lets Go Fly the gross up to the highest Most and send it soaring!!!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:42pm

>It looks like PASSING STRANGE may be destined to become this season's JOURNEY'S END.<

Except for its closing week, Journey's End never had a week over $200,000. At least Passing Strange did better than that and is continuing to head in an upward direction.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:46pm

its a very weak start for Gypsy, 2 weeks and low attendance

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 5:31pm

I also disagree with the JOURNEY'S END statement. It looks like PASSING STRANGE is going up, at a very slow rate, but still going up nonetheless.

Go, Passing Strange, Go!!!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:08pm

A little OT, but my high school is on spring break. We got out last week. Then again, our schedule is completely different from all the other schools, so I guess most high schools aren't out quite yet.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:29pm

People just don't know what they're missing! What ever happened to the good old days before everyone and their mother dissected every detail about every show, instead of just savin' up the allowance and having a good old time, wherever we went. All I'm sayin' is, if you can get a 25.00 tix, you could either go to PASSING STRANGE, or, get 5 cups of STARBUCKS. Make your choice

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:34pm

Please stop being a huge shill. It's not helping.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:34pm

Starbucks, please. :P

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:59pm

5 White Choc Mochas??!!! YUM !!!!!!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 8:01pm

5 White Choc Mochas??!!! YUM !!!!!!

Yup, sounds good.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 8:02pm

ohhhhhhhhhh, very good for LITTLE MERMAID

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/16

Posted: 3/17/08 at 8:05pm

Speaking of "Mermaid"- (and sorry to threadjack), but NY1
"On Stage" has Sierra on this week. Probably the most adorable interview I have ever seen !!! It airs again at 12:30AM (EST)