Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/17/13

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/17/2013 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: SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (15.8%), JERSEY BOYS (13.4%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (11.7%), NEWSIES (9.8%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (8.4%), CHICAGO (8.0%), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (8.0%), MAMMA MIA! (4.6%), CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (4.2%), MATILDA (3.5%), ONCE (2.7%), ROCK OF AGES (1.6%), LUCKY GUY (1.1%), WICKED (0.6%), THE LION KING (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance was: CINDERELLA (-14.3%), ANN (-6.9%), HANDS ON A HARDBODY (-4.4%), BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (-4.3%), ANNIE (-1.0%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.2%),

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The fourth highest-grossing show was a play. The power of the Hanks.

Did not expect those kind of numbers for Motown! Surprise!

Motown is once again following in the tradition of 20 years of productions (exceptions being Ghost and A Christmas Story) that played the Lunt and got/will likely get critical pans, but retain a great deal of selling power despite their notices. (Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Addams Family)

Good for Cinderella for remaining in the million dollar club and still selling a healthy percentage of tickets with its rear mezzanine opened.

Kinky Boots is doing pretty well for previews despite Cinderella, Matilda and Motown's making its sales looking pretty lackluster.

Matilda's doing amazing.

Annie and Newsies are holding up extremely well will the the flood of family/kid friendly musicals.

I hate to say this but I don't think Nice Work will live to see the summer.

Grosses will likly increase sharply over the next two weeks due to this week being most of the country's spring break, and the following week being NY's spring break.

Updated On: 3/18/13 at 03:26 PM

"It's nice to see 'Cinderella' still doing well even though its audience percentage dropped from the previous week."

Beautywickedlover, that's a little deceptive. Cinderella actually sold more tickets this past week than the prior week, but the capacity changed because they are no longer curtaining off the rear mezzanine. There are about 300-400 more seats on sale now, which is why the comparison was not entirely accurate, as the percentage of capacity was based on a different number. 12,000 bodies in the seats is a pretty good number.

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I know nothing about "Nice Work" but is his role something they could stunt cast?

Woha Motown... Wonder if it could turn into the next Mamma Mia!

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MOTOWN has a GREAT logo. Which ever graphic designer came up with the idea of using the record company logo as the starting point for the show logo should get an special Tony. I have no doubt that the logo is helping to sell the show -- plus it has all those fantastic Motown songs. So what if the book sucks, audiences want the songs.

Updated On: 3/18/13 at 04:06 PM

Hey RC, that would be How To Succeed 2 (20 years later).

But didn't Baby, It's You have great songs and sh*tty book? So.... I'm not saying this show will go the way that one did, but I think it needs to have a relatively interesting story or else it's just going to fall flat.

Motown is once again following in the tradition of 20 years of productions (exceptions being Ghost and A Christmas Story) that played the Lunt and got/will likely get critical pans, but retain a great deal of selling power despite their notices. (Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Addams Family

Uh, with the exception of Beauty and the Beast all those shows flopped badly. So much for "selling power".

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I liked it when I saw it Friday, but RIP "Hands on a Hardbody"...with those sales at that average ticket price, it's dead man walking before Opening Night...

I wonder how close Nice Work is to recouping? I guess if it likely to recoup by June then they'll probably just close it when Matthew Broaderick leaves, recasting is risky and could lead to a huge drop in sales as we saw with How to Succeed when Nick Jonas replaced Darren Criss.