Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/20/14

[Rob]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:07pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/20/2014 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: ONCE (28.4%), THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN (24.9%), MAMMA MIA! (21.7%), PIPPIN (19.4%), AFTER MIDNIGHT (18.6%), JERSEY BOYS (18.5%), ROCKY (15.5%), CINDERELLA (15.0%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (14.9%), CASA VALENTINA (14.5%), CHICAGO (14.0%), VIOLET (13.6%), ALL THE WAY (13.4%), IF/THEN (10.3%), LES MISÉRABLES (10.1%), THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (10.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (9.6%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (9.2%), NEWSIES (9.1%), THE REALISTIC JONESES (8.5%), BEAUTIFUL (5.9%), ROCK OF AGES (5.4%), KINKY BOOTS (5.1%), BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (3.9%), CABARET (3.8%), OF MICE AND MEN (3.1%), MATILDA (1.6%), WICKED (1.0%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (0.4%), ACT ONE (0.4%), ALADDIN (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (-3.7%), MOTHERS AND SONS (-0.9%),

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[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:12pm

Wow! What a week. Spring has sprung.

[StickIt]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:16pm

Wow, congrats to Beautiful on breaking the Sondheim's box office record again with their first week over a million!

[ethan231h]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:19pm

WOW The Velocity of Autumn is doing really BAD.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:20pm

Yeesh Velocity is done, when was the last time a commercial production did under 100k for a full week of shows?

[SomeOtherMe]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:23pm

So awesome to see almost every show get a great spring boost.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:30pm

DAMN! What a week.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:31pm

Well, The Velocity of Autumn is terrible so.. . it makes sense. YEAH Bridges with its 10% bump!

[Jonwo]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:41pm

Aladdin is doing fantastic but its interesting despite being in a bigger theatre, its grosses are less than Les Mis and Kinky Boots, I'm guessing the balcony does reduce its gross potential.

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:46pm

Pretty easy to sort out.

Average paid for a ticket:
Aladdin: $88.80
Kinky Boots: $143.66
Les Miserables: $124.04

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:57pm

Wow! A great week! Glad to see a little boost for Bridges! Also it seems like Mamma Mia still has a pulse!

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:00pm

And Cinderella actually out grossed Aladdin this week at a huge $1.4 million, and an average ticket price of $103.00.

There was a poster here named FineByDesign who trashed Cinderella before it opened and predicted it wouldn't last until the summer of 2013 (yes, LAST summer). Remember that? Haven't see any comments about the show from (s)he lately.

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:02pm

The producers must just love the day they invented premium seating.

Pretty encouraging to see 12 new musicals still running, most putting up pretty decent numbers, without taking away from the previous seasons' mega-hits. Its gotta kill the commercial side of the street to see the shows who will gather the most award nominations doing the worst business of the new crop.

GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE $507,224 85.50%
VIOLET $283,182 100.10%
BRIDGES OF MADISON CNTY $345,270 64.30%
AFTER MIDNIGHT $542,801 85.80%
CABARET $692,319 100.40%
HEDWIG $815,295 101.00%
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY $974,076 90.00%
ROCKY $1,022,747 87.80%
BEAUTIFUL $1,027,244 99.30%
IF/THEN $1,104,188 98.90%
ALADDIN $1,225,128 100.10%
LES MISÉRABLES $1,396,410 99.90%

Updated On: 4/21/14 at 04:02 PM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:07pm

I think some schools had spring break last week. There were a lot of teens at Pippin last Wednesday afternoon. It was not a school group.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:08pm

Aladdin still has tickets that sold on discount codes, as theses run out their average ticket price will rise.

16 shows on the $1m+ club, Bullets Over Broadway wasn't one of them, who is going to write the eulogy? another big fat flop for the St James!

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:08pm

I am supposed to see VELOCITY on Wed. Hopefully it stays open til then.

[valeposh]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:10pm

Happy to see BRIDGES get a boost!!

[newintown]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:17pm

I guess cheering its tiny bump may be an "anything is better" kind of thinking, but Bridges still only pulled in 33% of its possible gross, and must be dumping bushels of money that it doesn't have.



Updated On: 4/21/14 at 04:17 PM

[valeposh]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:23pm

Personally, I'm just happy that more people went to see the show. It'll never be a $1million per week hit, so I'll take the small victories. :)

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:51pm

Small victories mean zilch if they are still losing hundreds of thousands a week, which they indeed are.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 4:59pm

Excellent week for Broadway. I think there's still a chance that 'Cinderella' could recoup.

[bdn223]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 5:05pm

Cinderella should recoup any week now...if it hasn't already recouped.
The real question is when will Matilda and Motown which have been almost always members of the million dollar club as opposed to Cinderella which has definitely had some weeks in the red.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 5:35pm

Matilda must have high running costs but it took Billy Elliot 14 months to recoup so I reckon Matilda probably will recoup in the next few months, same with Motown which is surprising its hasn't recouped yet.

[dented146]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 9:44pm

That is a tremendous bump for Matilda which was all ready at 1M. Of the new shows Rocky had a big week.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 10:10pm

"same with Motown which is surprising its hasn't recouped yet."

I imagine the weekly running costs are much higher with the royalties they have to pay to all of the music copyright holders, including Mr. Gordon.