Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/20/16 — Page 2

JM226 said: "I was pleasantly surprised especially since their numbers were not that bad the previous week. I wonder what caused such a substantial jump.



as already mentioned by someone else in this thread, can be mostly credited to spring break. mostly colleges but many public schools, too. hence the jump in family-friendly musicals and more contemporary, younger-skewing musicals.



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Public schools in NYC are not off until late April. But lots of school groups come in starting this time of year so that helps too.

^^Usually Easter/Passover dates are somewhat close together so the NYC school break is around those times. But this year, Easter and Passover are a month apart. Public schools in NYC are then off just for Good Friday in March and then a whole week in April around Passover for Spring Recess. I think they prefer to have their week off in April since they had a Presidents Week off in February.

For theater going, it's not a bad thing you have school group visiting and vacations spread through March and part of April.

JM226 said: "Public schools in NYC are not off until late April. But lots of school groups come in starting this time of year so that helps too.



when did i ever suggest that it was NYC public schools? i said "public schools.." not "NYC public schools." many public and private schools in Connecticut are currently on break and the majority of Westchester county public schools are on break, too. sheesh



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I was only giving the information about NYC public schools (which I happen to know) as PART of the picture. I wasn't arguing your point..just adding some info to the comments. Talk about "sheesh"...