Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/3/19

[Rob]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:12pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/3/2019 in BroadwayWorld'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:

Down for the week by attendance was: BEAUTIFUL (-19.1%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-14%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-11.9%), CHOIR BOY (-11.1%), THE PROM (-10.7%), BE MORE CHILL (-10.3%), THE CHER SHOW (-9.6%), FROZEN (-9.4%), CHICAGO (-9.2%), KING KONG (-8.8%), THE FERRYMAN (-8.7%), MY FAIR LADY (-7.8%), KINKY BOOTS (-7.6%), MEAN GIRLS (-7.3%), THE BAND'S VISIT (-7.3%), ANASTASIA (-6.1%), THE LION KING (-3.5%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-3.3%), KISS ME, KATE (-2.9%), COME FROM AWAY (-2.3%), ALADDIN (-1.9%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.5%), WAITRESS (-1.5%), NETWORK (-1.3%), TRUE WEST (-1%), WICKED (-1%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (-0.3%),

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[ethan231h]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:14pm

Not the best week but that was expected..usually the first week or so of March is the worst. 

On another note, The Prom should have some new marketing material coming out, they did a big photoshoot on Friday.

[laurensambrose]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:27pm

Those My Fair Lady grosses are making me nervous :/

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:34pm

laurensambrose said: "Those My Fair Lady grosses are making me nervous :/"

I just came here to say the same thing. I didn't see it sticking around past July 7 (Laura and Harry's final perf), but now I fear it won't make it through the next 4 months. Those running costs have to be in the high $600K-low $700K range.

[BritCrit]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:35pm

ethan231h said: "Not the best week but that was expected..usually the first week or so of March is the worst."

Apparently there was a big cold snap in the North East last week. Did that have much of an effect on the earnings?

Although almost everyone had a bad week, many of the teen-centered musicals (e.g Be More Chill, Mean Girls, The Prom) had particularly significant drops in earning and attendance. Were they affected by the end of the February break, or did something else play a role?

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:40pm

I really hope Cher Show can rebound from these last weeks!

Pretty Woman, King Kong and the Prom should pack.

I was hoping for better numbers for BMC, I mean, 3 weeks and already this?

Waitress sweetie, I got news for u....

[TFMH18]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 3:53pm

Good lord those Band's Visit numbers. No wonder. 

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:05pm

Wow, rough week. My Fair Lady I don't think can make it to July if those numbers don't improve. The show doesn't seem cheap to run and I hate to point this out but Laura Benanti's absences (planned and unplanned -- she was out again yesterday) don't help. Also wondering how Waitress, King Kong and Pretty Woman can hang on.

[Kitsune]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:08pm

poisonivy2 said: "Wow, rough week. My Fair Lady I don't think can make it to July if those numbers don't improve. The show doesn't seem cheap to run and I hate to point this out but Laura Benanti's absences (planned and unplanned -- she was out again yesterday) don't help. Also wondering how Waitress, King Kong and Pretty Woman can hang on."

Pretty Woman had really solid grosses (80 to 90% range) in the fall through the end of 2018. It won't run forever, but I imagine it can hold on at least until the tourist season in summer.

Updated On: 3/4/19 at 04:08 PM

[Fanboy99]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:10pm

Is that the first time Book of Mormon ever went under a million?? 

[Andres_123]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:15pm

Ouch! Be More Chill with a 60 gross potential and it's only three weeks In. On the bright side sales for the next three weeks seem really good and I think the spring will help a lot. Kong could close any day now along with the prom and waitress. Surprised by ain't too proud didn't think it would do so good and surprised by Dear Evan Hansen first time in two years it didn't play to 100 capacity. 

[jkstheatrescene]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:31pm

Fanboy99 said: "Is that the first time Book of Mormon ever went under a million??"

Nope. They were under $1M most recently the week ending 2/3/19. Coincidentally, it also happened the same week in 2018.

[jkstheatrescene]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:34pm

Andres_123 said: "Ouch! Be More Chill with a 60 gross potential and it's only three weeks In. On the bright side sales for the next three weeks seem really good and I think the spring will help a lot.Kong could close any day now along with the prom and waitress. Surprised by ain't too proud didn't think it would do so good and surprised by Dear Evan Hansen first time in two years it didn't play to 100 capacity."

Not quite. DEH was under 100% 12/2/18, 9/9/18, and twice in its first few weeks - 12/4/16 & 11/20/16.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:37pm

Alright, y'all. Which show are people gonna say should pack it in this week?

[WestEndGal]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:45pm

OMG Waitress, those grosses make me really sad! First time the show has dropped into the 400ks, eek Sara can’t keep coming back to bolster those numbers. Shoshana will probably bring but I can’t imagine by a whole lot!

 

[MNC77]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:47pm

Similar to DEH, this was the worst week for Come From Away since opening night. No chance of either closing soon, but really shows how rough this week was across the board.

[7thbighero]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:49pm

Oh yikes. I’ve got  linctix to see My Fair Lady in June. Hope they’ll still be open

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:50pm

Bad week for most. Beautiful and Waitress need to pack it up. Spring needs to arrive for some of these shows to survive. This was Come From Away's first week since previews where they weren't 100% sold-out. Also, having been in the city this weekend, it was empty. Restaurants were empty. Very little tourists traffic around Times Square. Hopefully things pick up soon.

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:53pm

Fanboy99 said: "Is that the first time Book of Mormon ever went under a million??"

Click on Book of Mormon, then Click on Jump To Years "All"  

It will then show you a history of grosses/attendance.

To answer your question.  The first 8 weeks in 2011 were all under $1m.  Since then, four weeks have been under $1m  (1.24.16,2.4.18,  2.3.19 and this week)

Updated On: 3/4/19 at 04:53 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 4:57pm

laurensambrose said: "Those My Fair Lady grosses are making me nervous :/"

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 6:20pm

haterobics said: "laurensambrose said: "Those My Fair Lady grosses are making me nervous :/"

These pretzels are making me thirsty."

 

LOL!

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 8:33pm

I wonder if Stephanie J. Block's vacation affected The Cher Show's gross this week...? 

[VernonGersch]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 8:40pm

On a purely business level, how does KING KONG move forward with such a low gross and awful percentage of ticket sales?

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 3/4/19 at 10:49pm

VernonGersch said: "On a purely business level, how does KING KONG move forward with such a low gross and awful percentage of ticket sales?"

Deep-pocketed producers who have put a lot into the show over the years and aren't going down without a fight. This was its lowest 8-show week yet by almost 100K.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 3/5/19 at 1:15am

I take this personally. My beloved Golden Age musicals, well two of them, not able to outdraw the likes of Mean Girls? A generation of theatergoers who didn't grow up to the strains of "Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you" and "Whenever I feel afraid." Or "All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air." During this period very good revivals of Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof were not given the respect and the audience deserved.

My Fair Lady, with a second cast some preferred to the original, and named the best musical of the year by the Times and I think New Yorker. Given the cold shoulder?  So, why was Laura renewed? She was no draw, the March schedule had to be mangled to fit Benanti's schedule. I would have liked to see a fresh young face. Much as when Laura replaced Rebecca Luker in The Sound of Music, and was called an improvement by the Times. I had a crush on Rebecca from Prince's Show Boat and I remember thinking how hard it must have been for Rebecca to read that review.

So couldn't they have brought in Emma Stone? Oh yeah. Her voice was good enough for Sally Bowles but not for Eliza Doolittle. Reese! Definitely Reese. She was June Carter in the Johnny Cash biopic. But did she do all her own singing? Never mind. The Beaumont would be humming every night.

Speaking of Carousel, does everyone realize that many tourists think that Julie and Billy are a mixed race couple? Joshua Henry as Billy gave a fantastic, Tony-nominated performance. But many outsiders don't realize that even in Maine a colored man would not have been permitted at that time to mingle with and touch white women at the carousel. Don't like them seeing Billy as just another violent African American who of course beat his white wife.

Anyway, on recently viewing the DVR of South Pacific, I believe that it most deserved to be the one that hung around for two years. Grand in scope and gravitas, two broadly memorable songs of love and loss in "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine." The "unique-in-musical-theater" "Bali Ha'i", whose first three notes ignite an overture that I have been known to listen in on a 20% repeat loop and listened to it played twenty times.