Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/31/24

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 (% of capacity) was: SPAMALOT (10.8%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (9.6%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (9.1%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (8.8%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (8.2%), DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (6.6%), MJ THE MUSICAL (6.4%), THE WHO'S TOMMY (5.1%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (5%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (4.1%), & JULIET (3.6%), THE LION KING (2.8%), CHICAGO (2.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (2.3%), HAMILTON (2%), ALADDIN (2%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (1.2%), SIX (1.2%), WICKED (0.9%), THE OUTSIDERS (0.7%), LEMPICKA (0.1%), HADESTOWN (0.1%), DOUBT: A PARABLE (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (-0.2%),

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Great attendance. And wow for Enemy of the People.

Wow, The Wiz! $941k for 4 performances. Impressive.

Most of the newbies have been on life support for months. Shame.

Let’s remember. Most if not all of these new musicals cost ~$1M “all in” for 8 performances when you consider 1) theater rent percentage and 2) royalties. These are added to “weekly operating costs”. People forget these 2 items when talking about “breakeven” or “ weekly nut”. So most likely none are breaking even. Yet.

I hope the producers of Lempicka, Suffs and Rock are ready to fight.

This season has been brutal to new musicals.

Congrats to Elephants - NYT Critic Pix still means something.

I just hope Cabaret becomes the next long runner and makes fascinating choices for stunt casting.

Heart of Rock and Roll had two performances. Not saying Producers shouldn't be nervous - I think everyone is, but two shows counting toward grosses aren't really an indicator of anything.

Mr.Liir said: "Heart of Rock and Roll had two performances. Not saying Producers shouldn't be nervous - I think everyone is, but two shows counting toward grosses aren't really an indicator of anything."

Obviously we've seen shows start off worse and go on to be hugely successful, but considering the national press appearances by Huey Lewis and the company (somewhat rare for a Broadway show ahead of previews), there's no way to spin this as anything but a bad start. They'll have to get that $72 average price up quickly.

Phantom4ever said: "Does it seem like there are more houses full of shows this spring than usual?"

I'm not going to comb through data but this seems like a completely normal number of houses filled. 3 houses are dark right now, and 2 of those 3 are being renovated.

We have a few more shows opening than usual this spring. This is due to a backlog of shows, a decrease in the number of recent shows having a "long" run (only 6 shows that opened in the 2021-22 season and the 22-23 season are still running, and 3 have closing dates), and scheduling coincidences.

Updated On: 4/2/24 at 05:12 PM

Phantom4ever said: "Does it seem like there are more houses full of shows this spring than usual?"

I thought so as well given a high number of shows starting previews last week and this week. From BWW grosses, there were 32 shows last week. A year ago that same week (week 13), there were 31 shows.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesbyweek.cfm?week=13