Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/17/13

[Rob]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 2:57pm

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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[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:03pm

Damn, way to go Motown!

[Wynbish]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:04pm

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

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:07pm

I guess I completely underestimated the demand for another jukebox musical. What a great start for MOTOWN.

[Ejm105989]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:10pm

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

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:21pm

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

[bdn223]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:26pm

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

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:28pm

I think Ann is doing well, all things considered.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:40pm

"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.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:42pm

^ I was not aware of this.

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

They will probably close it on the day Matthew Broderick is scheduled to leave.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:43pm

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

[jetts7]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:49pm

Wow! Congrats to Motown! I'm surprised Matilda hasn't hit one million by know, but they are still in previews and most people don't like to see shows in previews.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:55pm

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

[jaxandmci]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:00pm

I was at the Lunt buying future tickets for Motown just after the Saturday matinee had let out. I talked to several people who had just seen it and it was all raves.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:06pm

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

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:18pm

Who could conceivably replace Matthew in "Nice Work"? John Stamos? Just wondering...from RC in Austin, Texas NYC (June 7-10, 2013)

[beensince1987]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:26pm

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

[Jonwo]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:55pm

Lucky Guy is doing incredible business, its should recoup and make a profit pretty easily although I imagine Hanks is getting a percentage of the gross along with his salary.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 7:10pm

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.

[spike3]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 7:20pm

BABY ITS YOU was about 1 girl group, The Shirelles. This is MOTOWN, home of The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Little Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, The Jackson Five, and many , many others. Four decades of hits, known worldwide.

Not defending the show, just clarifying

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 7:20pm

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".

[beensince1987]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 7:23pm

Also Baby It's You was a story about Florence Greenberg and I am not sure she is well-known outside (maybe even inside) music business. That's why I think Bette's show might have tough time later this season.

[grumpyoptimist]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 7:35pm

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...

[mc1227]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 8:18pm

Great numbers for Lucky Guy and Motown. Can't wait to see both!!

Broderick has already been announced as leaving on June 15th. Unless they get a name for the role, my guess is the show will close then. Considering MB was out Sat & Sun, the numbers for the show were pretty strong. I read recently that Stamos has just signed for a role on an existing USA network show, just can't remember the name right now.They may squeeze the summer with the right replacement but time will tell.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 3/18/13 at 8:30pm

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.