Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:10pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/13/2014 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: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL (14.3%), CHICAGO (9.9%), ACT ONE (9.2%), CINDERELLA (6.6%), MAMMA MIA! (6.3%), BEAUTIFUL (4.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (4.4%), KINKY BOOTS (3.4%), MOTHERS AND SONS (3.1%), CASA VALENTINA (2.9%), JERSEY BOYS (2.9%), ROCKY (2.3%), VIOLET (2.0%), THE LION KING (1.7%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (1.3%), MATILDA (1.1%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (0.9%), WICKED (0.9%), AFTER MIDNIGHT (0.7%), ROCK OF AGES (0.1%), BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN (-11.6%), ALL THE WAY (-4.9%), CABARET (-4.6%), THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (-3.4%), ONCE (-3.3%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-2.9%), LES MISÉRABLES (-2.3%), PIPPIN (-1.6%), THE REALISTIC JONESES (-1.6%), IF/THEN (-1.2%), NEWSIES (-1.0%), OF MICE AND MEN (-0.6%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:14pmOoof...THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN is looking like it's going to become this season's HIGH.
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#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:21pmSuch a shame about BRIDGES. After spending the past few days listening to the EW sneak peek of the cast recording, I'm even more frustrated people aren't seeing it. Such a gorgeous score and brilliant performances. I hope to see it a third time before it goes.
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:23pmBRIDGES and GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE must have some pretty loyal producers.
NewSynchopation
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/13
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:24pmOkay, Bridges is posting a closing notice before the nominations, almost guaranteed. Velocity won't last long, and good strong numbers for Lady Day. Good.
Markecib
Featured Actor Joined: 4/13/11
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:33pmI wonder if "Once" will make it to Labor Day. The grosses have been failing fast the last few weeks. Velocity of Autumn has tickets to the public for sale on opening night, which is never good.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:38pmNice week for Bullets! And there were a lot of comps to boot.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:44pm
Those numbers for Violet look like they're dropping free tickets from a helicopter over Times Square.
Updated On: 4/14/14 at 03:44 PM
NewSynchopation
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/13
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:50pmThey are, newintown, how could you not remember that?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:19pmAT the the talkback at Velocity Sunday afternoon, the producers were practically begging people to get others to buy tickets and even gave out a discount code to post on social media.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:26pmDoes anyone know what the weekly NUT is for Bridges?
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:32pmI doubt “Bridges” will be closed by the time nominations are announced. As they have been hanging in there at these grosses for weeks, it seems like they are specifically waiting for nominations. Depending on how they do, I could easily see them, then, waiting for the Tony’s, as well.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:41pmUnfortunately, "waiting" also means losing a lot of money. So I'm not so sure they can afford to wait.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:45pmLooking at its history, Bridges has been hovering between 32-46% of its gross potential since its first week, constantly bringing in (much) less than $500k. Someone is pumping cash into it... if Brown had ever written a money-making hit, I'd think it was him, but I can't imagine he has those resources.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:47pmThe nominations are two weeks from tomorrow. Anything closing before that would really be a shame. I hope the falling shows will be able to hang on until then and get a healthy boast from the nominations.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:55pmBoosts don't often come from nominations.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:12pmBRIDGES producers have taken out two loans on the show thus far and they did bring in a new, but very small, group of investors several weeks ago. I have no idea how they got new people to invest but they did. They plan to wait it out until the nominations at the very least. If they do well with nominations, they plan to stay open until the Tonys. If they do not garner enough nominations, they'll close. This has all been confirmed by a prominent member of the production team.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:35pmSutton Foster does not seem to be a big box office draw. The "Broadway Star" is truly a thing of the past.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:38pmIdina. Menzel. If/Then. If she's not a "Broadway Star", what is she? The draw to that show certainly isn't Kitt and Yorkey, and it certainly isn't LaChanze, Anthony Rapp, or James Snyder. And Idina isn't a hollywood name. So...
HooferFrom42ndSt
Swing Joined: 3/24/14
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:42pminteresting that Sutton Foster isn't selling more tickets, she's won two Tony Awards and has been in more Broadway shows than Idina Menzel. I guess Sutton needs to do a Disney animated film.
AKarp2013
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/11
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:57pmTravolta mispronouncing her name and Frozen were definitely the two major factors behind it. Plus I assume she could still be riding on her Wicked fame.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:58pmThere is no doubt in my mind that Bridges will get a lot of nominations, but that is not going to boost sales.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:32pm
Idina. Menzel. If/Then. If she's not a "Broadway Star", what is she?"
Lucky.
But in all seriousness, the mammoth enterprises of WICKED and FROZEN are mostly contributing to that. Not her name.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Bridges will get a lot of nominations, but that is not going to boost sales."
Right, which means we have no idea what the producers are using a barometer of what might be 'good' or not. Do a lot of nominations mean they keep throwing cash into this? Or is it just the nomination of Best Musical, for example, that they're looking for? We just do not know.
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:33pmOnce is hanging by a thread, I wouldn't be surprised if it closes in the next few months.
felipenor
Understudy Joined: 11/23/13
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/13/14
Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:44pmWhen you guys say Bridges is losing money every week, do you have any idea how much it's losing? I understand 30% of potential gross is quite little, but ow much would it need to be out of the red, 50%?
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