Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/17/16

[Rob]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:19pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/17/2016 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: SHE LOVES ME (10.4%), ECLIPSED (6.0%), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (5.7%), BEAUTIFUL (5.3%), THE CRUCIBLE (5.3%), KINKY BOOTS (5.2%), THE KING AND I (4.7%), BRIGHT STAR (3.5%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (2.2%), CHICAGO (1.7%), FINDING NEVERLAND (1.5%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (1.3%), JERSEY BOYS (1.0%), WAITRESS (0.5%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (0.2%), SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-16.5%), AMERICAN PSYCHO (-5.0%), BLACKBIRD (-4.7%), LES MISÉRABLES (-4.4%), TUCK EVERLASTING (-3.8%), WICKED (-3.5%), FULLY COMMITTED (-3.2%), MATILDA (-2.3%), FUN HOME (-2.2%), THE HUMANS (-1.3%), THE COLOR PURPLE (-1.0%), THE FATHER (-0.9%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (-0.7%), ALADDIN (-0.6%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-0.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%), THE LION KING (-0.3%), DISASTER! (-0.3%), HAMILTON (-0.2%),

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[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:25pm

PARAMOUR made more than half of DIASTER's entire week with 1 performance.

 

WAITRESS continues to surge. Very happy, but a little surprised. I thought the show was going to have a slow build.  

[JBroadway]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:25pm

Wow, that was a nasty drop for Hamilton. Only 125% of its potential gross. When do you think we can expect the closing notice? Such a shame, and right after it won the Pulitzer, too! Thank goodness this wonderful show will at least be preserved on the cast recording. Anyone think the tour plans will actually go through? 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:40pm

@JBroadway-thanks for that little piece of awesomeness. And of course to anyone looking for an explanation, it is that this was the first week of the student matinees.

[Daddy Warbucks]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:44pm

IdinaBellFoster said: "WAITRESS continues to surge. Very happy, but a little surprised. I thought the show was going to have a slow build."

 

I was just going to say the same thing.  I believed WAITRESS would do well in the grand scheme of things, but it has truly shocked me how quickly it has happened, immediately out of the gates.  It has been at 100% or more attendance every week of previews.  I just got my tickets for next week.  Looking forward to seeing it!   

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:45pm

Paramour's theater is as big as an airplane hangar hence the larger gross. Cirque is a known quantity so people will go to see it over Disaster. These are a few reasons for the difference.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:45pm

I guess Disaster is holding on, then.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:48pm

Somebody is burning money big time on it I would think. Trip Of Love has to be a huge drain on whoever is shoveling money into it. I feel sorry for the actors playing to empty houses night after night.

[ChildofEarth]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 3:48pm

Happy to see The Humans continuing to grow.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:06pm

I hope Matilda sees an uptick with them announcing their closure. I don't think fiddler will last after this years holiday season.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:09pm

Fiddler simply has been revived one to many times. It is from the time of the old Broadway. Broadway is a changing and this is simply to old school. Add to that, it is a big theater to fill.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:25pm

Hope "Something Rotten" can continue to hang in there because it is such a fun show.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:27pm

Totally agree Yankee

[10086sunset]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:33pm

Shame that Blackbird has not found a larger audience. 

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:40pm

Revivals never run long - with the exception of Chicago.  What were the longer running revivals of late?  South Pacific two and half years, but that was also a Lincoln Center subscription show.  Pippin didn't make two years and with those reviews and awards and the smaller theater it was in I would have thought it should still be running.  So another Fiddler so soon might not have been the best idea. 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:43pm

10086sunset said: "Shame that Blackbird has not found a larger audience. "

They're doing fine.

The Anything Goes revival played 521 performances-- not too shabby for Roundabout.

 

Updated On: 4/18/16 at 04:43 PM

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 4/18/16 at 4:47pm

Daddy Warbucks said: "IdinaBellFoster said: "WAITRESS continues to surge. Very happy, but a little surprised. I thought the show was going to have a slow build."

I was just going to say the same thing.  I believed WAITRESS would do well in the grand scheme of things, but it has truly shocked me how quickly it has happened, immediately out of the gates.  It has been at 100% or more attendance every week of previews.  I just got my tickets for next week.  Looking forward to seeing it!   "

I actually wasn't surprised by Waitress' strong early start (of course I couldn't have predicted the sell out crowds). I say this because I saw the show out of town and I'm a big Sara Bareilles fan and have followed the build up to it since last summer. I think a lot of the early excitement has been due to her, the cast and starting previews during spring break that pulled in younger attendees.