Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#1
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:12pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/29/2009 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.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#2
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:18pm
Pretty good start for N2N. And good for WSS, HAIR, and GOD OF CARNAGE.
Bleh for REASONS TO BE PRETTY. Oh well!
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#2
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:19pm
Oh hey Next to Normal and West Side Story.
Boy, it's a good week percentage-wise, but look at some of those avg. ticket prices. Rock of Ages, Guys and Dolls and Shrek...OOF. (I didn't say N2N, Joe Turner or Reasons because I'm sure they can survive at those rates...although N2N is probably VERY highly papered and will surely see an attendance drop very soon).
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#4
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:25pm
I don't see why everyone's so excited about N2N. The percentage doesn't mean a thing; it's the weekly gross that's important. It's not a very strong start for N2N. Look at the average ticket price; plus the fact that I know for a fact it was highly papered. The percentages can be deceiving...
Here's hoping sales pick up...
Updated On: 3/30/09 at 04:25 PM
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#5
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:26pmWell, it's good that it was that good of a capacity. Word of mouth will boost it's sales.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#6
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:28pmIf next to normal made $124,188 for 4 performances, that would mean it made an average of 31,047 per performance. If it keeps that average (at least), it will rake in 248,376 a week. Is that enough, I mean... it's a small show but, it has quite a set and some bills to pay. It's VERY early and has time to improve, and it did MUCH MUCH MUCH better than I expected.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#7
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:28pmI'm still waiting for WSS to be on top.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#8
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:30pmI thought they didn't have a Saturday matinee this week, so that would have been 3. Maybe I thought wrong on that one...
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#9
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:30pmWSS IS on top.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#10
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:31pmOn the BWW gross chart, it said 4. I thought it was 3 too, if it was 3 than there is more hope (that is if they do 8 performances a week)
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#11
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:32pmIt's 4. Friday, Saturday, and two on Sunday.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#12
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:35pmYeah. N2N needs to improve, big time. And shame on ROA
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#13
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:35pmI'm so thrilled for WEST SIDE STORY. That show deserves to be a hit.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#14
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:36pm
If N2N is a hit, it will be a slow-growing hit and will take a while for word of mouth etc to spread. So this kind of a start for it was pretty much predictable. What happens in the coming months is what's important.
And whether or not it can survive once the Tony Awards are handed out. Or once the summer comes to an end. We shall see...like I've said, I hope for the best but I'm kinda expecting the worst. I do, however, have faith in the producers but the marketing team needs to have a fire lit under their asses. Get the show out there!
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#15
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:46pm
I'm in the minority here about the artwork. I think it is cheesy, hideous, and unappealing. I was on N2N's website and my (non-theatre loving) dad peaked over my shoulder and asked me what I was looking at, and I told him it was N2N and briefly described the show. He thought the show looked corny (based on the artwork), he though the music was 3rd rate rock songs, and thought that ALL the singers sounded goofy in the songs displayed on the site, and he was very turned off by the fact that it was a musical about mental disease. This is exactly what half of middle-America must be thinking right now. Even though I don't agree with ALL my dad's opinions, it suddenly made me further my opinion of why this show has little chance at success.
ETA: Spelling Corrections
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#16
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:50pm
I'm afraid of some or all of the following in N2N's case:
A) No one from out of NY will see it or even give it a chance
B) It doesn't have the same young/hip appeal as RENT or SPRING AWAKENING (it's a lot darker)
C) That second act is too slow and dark for tourists
It's just not something that will appeal to middle America. It's a totally different show than SA or RENT in almost every way besides the fact that it includes a few rock songs. Do people really want to pay $110 to see a show about suicide, medication, mental instability, marital problems, and drugs? N2N deals with these issues in VERY different ways than SA or RENT did ... it deals with them seriously and deeply. And that, however much more authentic a feel it may give, may (ironically) be what kills the show.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#17
Posted: 3/30/09 at 4:59pmWickedrocks many people who are theatre fans here in the UK know about N2N and are planning on seeing it on their next trips, including me
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#18
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:01pm
Although I have been openly critical about the flaws of N2N, and am not a crazed fan (other than a couple of the songs ), it really bothers me that people run away from a musical if it contains tough issues. Yes, there are plenty of shows that have been massive hits that deal with tough issues, but people have this stereotype that musicals are all bubbley/silly and turn all the high points in to high energy/cheesetastic, song/ dance numbers. So when they here "MENTAL ILNESS", they think it will lighten a tough issue so it can fit the "musical standard". Yes, if N2N were like the stereotypic musical, it would be a god-awful and offensive show... but it isn't a musicalization of high points and therefore is not a steroetypic show; however, I don't think it helps when there is a cast in which 3/6 people don't have the rock voices needed to make the score spark, even though I don't think that's the main problem... it certainly drives the tourists even farther away from the show than they already are when they finish reading the plot description.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#19
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:18pm
WSS IS on top.
No, it's #2. Wicked still outgrossed it.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#20
Posted: 3/30/09 at 7:15pmBut WSS did have the highest attendance.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#21
Posted: 3/30/09 at 7:17pm
But WSS did have the highest attendance.
The Gershwin doesn't have standing room, so Wicked can never play to over 100% capacity.
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#22
Posted: 3/30/09 at 7:17pmI know, but still. I'm not trying to say WSS was on top overall. But for attendance, they were on top. Updated On: 3/30/09 at 07:17 PM
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#23
Posted: 3/30/09 at 7:27pmIt's obvious which musical DESERVES to be on top. West Side Story no matter what production is stunning and beautiful, and Wicked is all technical beauty, not emotional.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/29#24
Posted: 3/30/09 at 8:30pmI'm still always shocked no one ever points out how well Phantom of the Opera sells all these years later ! :)
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