Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:02pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/21/2013 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: THE TESTAMENT OF MARY (16.2%), PIPPIN (8.6%), BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (7.8%), ONCE (7.1%), MAMMA MIA! (7.1%), MACBETH (5.7%), NEWSIES (5.5%), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (5.3%), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (4.9%), ROCK OF AGES (4.3%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (3.6%), ANNIE (3.1%), CHICAGO (2.7%), I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS (2.3%), KINKY BOOTS (2.0%), WICKED (1.9%), JERSEY BOYS (1.4%), LUCKY GUY (1.3%), THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES (1.2%), MATILDA (1.1%), ORPHANS (0.9%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (0.8%),
Down for the week by attendance was: ANN (-8.8%), THE NANCE (-7.6%), JEKYLL & HYDE (-5.0%), THE BIG KNIFE (-4.6%), MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL (-3.0%), CINDERELLA (-2.3%), THE LION KING (-1.4%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-1.2%),
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:13pmmatilda is going to eat in the profits of cinderella annie and newsies. nice work dosent look so good
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:38pmHow and why did Ann extend?!? That's the most puzzling question I have from this season!
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:43pmOK, I am calling B.S. on the Motown grosses. How is a show that is supposedly selling out, including premiums, and NOT doing any discounts or standing room selling at 100.6% capacity but only 81.28% of gross potential? The math doesn't make sense to me.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:43pmThat's exactly the same thing I thought. Maybe she just wants to blow all her Two & a Half Men money for a better shot at a Tony nomination.
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Noel&Cole
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#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:44pm
MATILDA will be a monster hit that is for sure. Although NEWSIES & ANNIE both went up in the grosses from last week, while CINDERELLA dropped. (I think it's the 4th week in a row where it dropped)..... It started off very strong, I wonder if the spring competition is starting to effect it?
And saw ANN this weekend. I wish they would have put it in a smaller house. Holland Taylor gives a wonderful performance, but in the Vivian Beaumont a 1/3 filled house is very noticeable.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:45pm
Because it's produced by Lincoln Center, a non-profit that doesn't need to recoup. LCT also has nothing to put in the Vivian Beaumont as of now and probably doesn't want it sitting empty all summer. Lastly, it's a one woman show with relatively inexpensive looking sets and can't possibly cost that much, so if anything I'd say it might be meeting its weekly costs.
Wow, Matilda grosses have really exploded now that previews are finally over!
ETA: While Cinderella has been dropping over the past few weeks, it's still grossing one million per week, which is quite good for a musical with no mega stars/star contracts. That said, it isn't a surprise it's dropping - remember when it opened the only real competition it had in terms of new productions of musicals was Annie and it's now facing Matilda, Kinky Boots, Motown, Pippin, and several new plays (The Lucky Guy) namely that are definitely competing with it for the tourist market.
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Updated On: 4/22/13 at 03:45 PM
Noel&Cole
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#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:46pm
BJH--- in regards to MOTOWN.... I'm guessing that are still having a portion of that house that was bought on discount tix much earlier in the sale. They had/have such a huge advance, I'm guessing a lot of that was discount ticket sales from before previews started.
Just a guess though
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 3:57pm
Bette is really packing 'em in at the Booth! Fiona Shaw, on the other hand, is not. They are papering the hell out of MARY.
I guess JEKYLL could be doing worse. Haven't heard anything about those supposed closing notices.
The average price for LUCKY GUY is wild to me.
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#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 4:01pmIt should be noted that Matilda performed 8 shows this week, as opposed to the 7 they had been doing during previews. Not that they didn't do well, but that's partially why the gross is higher this week.
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 4:12pmLucky Guy must be close to recouping unless the running costs are high, Ill Eat You Last will easily recoup by the end of its run.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 4:13pmThe Rascals are doing quite well. Wonder if they will announce an extension this week.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 5:00pmPippin is such a surprise hit.
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massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 6:06pmyeah i don't count theater shows (pippin, sondheim shows) early in their runs because they are FILLED with the theater crowd..after 2-3 months then you really start to see how they do. Pippin isn't a tourist show or a regular NY show either.
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#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 6:23pmMatilda also saw a much higher bump if comparing to the previous week because in addition to it being their first eight show week, the previous week included opening night which of course would have been heavily (if not completely) comped, thus accounting for a much lower gross reported for that week.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 7:00pmCorrect me if I'm mistaken, but is MOTOWN not doing standing room? I thought we'd established already that they are having 100+% capacity because of it...
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#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 7:17pmI bet the Weisslers are chomping at the bit for Nice Work to close so that they can move Pippin into the Imperial next door. I can see them closing down for a week after the summer to move and tech the show. They get 500 more seats and lots more revenue. And it would be nostagic to go into the theater where it all started.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 7:28pm
Nice Work will surely close in June when Broderick leaves. He is out this week and next week's numbers will be much less. With all the new shows out now, there are less people seeing the show and without a recognizable star, there's no way they could continue, even if they save $ on Broderick's take of sales.
I think it's been a respectable run since not too many people thought it would make it through last summer. It would probably be an easy transition for Pippin to move into the Imperial but I had read that another show had it sights on the Imperial, just can't remember what show they mentioned.
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#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 9:10pmI don't see Pippin moving. It hasn't even opened yet. I do think it will be a hit, but rumor has it the new Les Miz production has the Imperial next. Glad to see so many new shows doing well(Kinky Boots, Pippin, Motown, Matilda, Cinderella). Jekyll & Hyde, not so much.
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#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 9:59pmI don't believe Ann is being produced by LCT.
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#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 9:59pm
Double post
Updated On: 4/22/13 at 09:59 PM
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/22/13 at 11:05pmI see Pippin's capacity at 100.9%, so did they start selling SRO??
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TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13
Posted: 4/23/13 at 11:00am
Jekyll didn't do too well last week, Wonderland did better numbers its entire run.
There hasn't been a week at the Marquis(with an 8 performance week) in the $300,000 range since Soul of Shaolin and that was with 2009 prices
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