Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/22/15

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/22/15

Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/22/2015 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: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (8.5%), MAMMA MIA! (6.3%), BEAUTIFUL (6.2%), JERSEY BOYS (5.6%), MATILDA (3.9%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (3.3%), ON THE TOWN (3.3%), LES MISÉRABLES (3.2%), KINKY BOOTS (2.9%), WICKED (1.2%), CABARET (0.6%), CHICAGO (0.4%), THE AUDIENCE (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-18.9%), HAND TO GOD (-16.1%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-13.3%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-6.8%), IF/THEN (-5.8%), SKYLIGHT (-4.3%), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (-3.5%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (-2.3%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-1.1%), THE KING AND I (-0.7%), THE LION KING (-0.6%), THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (-0.3%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-0.3%),

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#2

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/22/15

Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:11pm

Holy Hedwig ... is that its worst week ever?

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Updated On: 3/23/15 at 03:11 PM

#3

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:11pm

Didn't somebody here promise us Honeymoon was going to have a great week?

#4

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:12pm

Good for IF/THEN, though who knows if it could have been higher in the last week because the producers allowed a discount code up through Thursday (no idea if other discounts were in effect for the last four shows).

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#5

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:18pm

I have to attribute the early success of Finding Neverland to a never-ending press blitz. It looks like the reviews may not matter, although I can't see it winning any Tony's.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:19pm

Pootie, I was at the last If/Then and I used a discount. But I bought early.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:24pm

Was it the 40% online discount code? The last code I saw only went to Thurs. Hmm, if they were giving discounts even for the last show, I wonder if that implies their weekly nut is lower than people might expect, especially since tourists would have been more willing to pay more for the special opening/closing s hows.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:30pm

If they were giving discounts for the end of the run I think they cut them off very soon after announcing the closing.

I bought my tickets to Sunday's final show on the day the closing was announced and paid full price (but lower than what they eventually charged).

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#9

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:31pm

Yeah, I bought it right when closing was announced before they had a chance to pull the code.

#10

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:32pm

Congrats to Honeymoon in Vegas for clinging on, with bloody fingernails, to the third-worst-selling Broadway show slot (of all shows that played a full week)! C'mon, Honeymoon - can you squeak up to 4th from the bottom?

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:32pm

Oh I see, so they did pull it. Now that makes sense.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:32pm

For the last show, there was a technical glitch with ticketmaster. The 40% code stated that is was through March 19th only but the code ended up working for the final performance for a short period of time.

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Updated On: 3/23/15 at 03:32 PM

#13

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:33pm

"For the last show, there was a technical glitch with ticketmaster. The 40% code stated that is was through March 19th only but the code ended up working for the final performance for a short period of time."

Ohhhh. Okay, well, it took some time for the show to sell out completely, so maybe that error didn't hurt them too badly.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:38pm

"I have to attribute the early success of Finding Neverland to a never-ending press blitz. It looks like the reviews may not matter, although I can't see it winning any Tony's."

I agree with this. I have not seen the film, heard any of the music, and I find myself wanting to see it... Thanks Harvey!

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 3:41pm

It smells like a hit, "Neverland."

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:23pm

What an amazing start for FINDING NEVERLAND! How many new musicals, even those based off of movies, start their first full week of previews with million-dollar grosses? Kudos to all involved and I hope it can sustain that level of success!

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:26pm

Why do the shills make it so obvious?? Always good for a laugh.

#18

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:30pm

^Not a shill, dude. Chill out. I've been on this board for 3 years now. I'm actually genuinely surprised and happy for the success this show and in its first week. I did not expect FN to gross that high for WEEKS.

As a PETER PAN fan, I've kept up with the development of this show for a while and am excited to see it. Like most, I'm not the biggest fan of Harvey and some of the choices he has made, but dang - it seems to be working for him so far.

Goodness sakes, people. Stop taking yourselves so seriously.

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:31pm

"How many new musicals, even those based off of movies, start their first full week of previews with million-dollar grosses?"

How about ones not based on anything?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesshow.cfm?show=IF-THEN&year=2015&allall=on

#20

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:42pm

Having a profile for 3 years and just deciding to start posting = suspicious.

#21

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 4:47pm

Nice for Neverland! Looking forward to Skylight.
Is On the Town closing the balcony for some performances? Foe example, as per Telecharge this Thursday almost the whole orchestra and mezz are available. However, there is not a seat to be had in the balcony. I have noticed this for other dates too? Is this a strategy? Groups buying it out? Strange.

#22

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 5:02pm

"Having a profile for 3 years and just deciding to start posting = suspicious."

The guy who has been here 5 years and has less than 100 posts calling out the guy who as "Broadway Star" has between 400 and 999 posts as a shill. Always good for a laugh.

#23

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 5:46pm

"How about ones not based on anything?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesshow.cfm?show=IF-THEN&year=2015&allall=on"

Exactly what I was thinking. Though the grosses eventually dipped, let's not forget the extraordinarily strong start.

#24

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 6:07pm

I love how any person who doesn't post much that decides to express their excitement for a show's success is assumed to be a shill. According to Stew, only regular visitors on this site are allowed to have opinions.

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#25

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Posted: 3/23/15 at 6:09pm

Excellent start for 'Finding Neverland'. It was a pretty good week for most shows since the month of March has tourists on different spring breaks.