Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/16/17- Page 2

[Trish2]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 7:35pm

Looks like ANASTASIA may be critic-proof. Good for them.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 8:11pm

Not to beat a dead horse, but In Transit would not have recouped if its weekly nut had been zero. 

I think the phenomenon with these plays this season could be called "Off Broadway on Broadway."

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 8:25pm

The 2013 Glass Menagerie frequently broke $600k/week. This new one is doing considerably worse.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 8:37pm

massofmen said: "No it's not. It's a boring show. It's incredibly boring with good actors doing an incredibly boring play. 

 

"

Welp. That's an opinion. 

[canadian fan]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 8:39pm

To those of you who are in the know, how much of a chance does Dolls House have of surviving? Looking at those numbers, they are so far below all the other shows its crazy. I have tickets for mid next month, Im wondering (fingers crossed) if I will actually get to see it?? 

[jbird5]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 8:49pm

Scott Rudin is producing it. He kept The Flick running at Barrow Street for 8 months. It's not necessarily about the money with him. But those numbers are dreadful.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 11:08pm

BakerWilliams said: "The 2013 Glass Menagerie frequently broke $600k/week. This new one is doing considerably worse."

To be frank, this production is considerably worse.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/17/17 at 11:14pm

neonlightsxo said: "BakerWilliams said: "The 2013 Glass Menagerie frequently broke $600k/week. This new one is doing considerably worse."

To be frank, this production is considerably worse.

 

"

That's being almost too kind, neon Ha! 

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 1:09am

It's also co-produced with LCT. 

[chernjam]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 1:15am

Curious - is this the first time that ALW shows combined for over $5 million for a week

[Jarethan]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 1:21am

Has to be.  Prices keep on going up.  The last time he had multiple shows open, the top was around $70 and there was no premium pricing.

Also,I don't know if this says anything, but in its 21st year, Chicago grossed the same as War Paint, which just opened, got decent reviews and raves for its two leads.  They even had pretty much the same average ticket price.  How is the possible?  

[Butter Broadway]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 1:26am

I know right. I guess Chicago is just very well known.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 1:44am

I loved A Dolls House Part 2 but it felt like a Playwrights show. No big spectacle, no crazy August Osage County like emotions. Felt very small even in that smallish theater. But Metcalf deserves that Tony and I'd see the show again. 

[BroadwayMan5]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 3:08am

Is it the sheer number of new musicals this year hurting the plays? Several seem well-liked but nothing is breaking through whereas nearly very musical has a pulse even surprise ones like Bronx Tale

[HogansHero]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 10:17am

some of these musicals will die relatively quickly and lose a lot more money than these plays (perhaps even in the aggregate). As I posted elsewhere, and as others have noted, these plays are, for the most part, off-B fare and are only on Broadway because of either atypical considerations or because there is no viable path for an off-B show to transfer off-B (with very limited exceptions). I actually think that if an effort is made after the reviews come out tonight, Indecent could actually build an audience. It has the right demographic. One final point is that I think a few of these plays likely came in because of the "Humans effect) and such effects almost never make sense to follow.

[Dysquith13]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 5:36pm

I know INDECENT is a play with musical, but in the ad they released for it, it definitely seems like they're trying to push the music aspect of it. I wonder how many people will buy tickets thinking it's a musical.

[cam5y]

Posted: 4/18/17 at 6:58pm

neonlightsxo said: "It's a bad title and the bad artwork isn't helping."

Funny, that's what people said about Come From Away.