Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#1

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/29/2012 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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[fingerlakessinger]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#2

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:07pm

Nice little jump for "Ghost." Very happy about that :)

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[songanddanceman2]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#2

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:13pm

Happy to see Ghost go up

Leap of Faith is dead, that gross wont even cover the cost of Raul's hair plugs

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Sauja]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#3

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:15pm

Oof. Looks like a lot of shows could be throwing up closing notices in the coming weeks. Leap of Faith and Seminar look like they're in particular danger, but I'm surprised to see Streetcar and Peter and the Starcatcher posting such low gross percentages of potential.

Also looks as though The Lyons has the most to gain or lose by tomorrow's nominations. I'm really rooting for that little show!

[Princeton Returns]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#4

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:20pm

How much roughly could Ghost be costing to run each week?

[fingerlakessinger]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#5

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:32pm

I'm thinking the $500,000 to $600,000 range.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[blaxx]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#6

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:37pm

Not in a trillion years can Ghost cost less than 600,000 a week.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[songanddanceman2]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#7

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:42pm

Actually its running costs are around 550k a week according to someone who works high up on the show

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[egghumor]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#8

Posted: 4/30/12 at 3:49pm

Even before seeing the grosses, I was surprised that LEAP didn't close yesterday. The AVERAGE ticket price paid for LEAP was $24! I usually don't pay much attention to that, but has it ever been so low for other shows?

[Mister Matt]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#9

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:00pm

Leap of Faith, Magic/Bird, Don't Dress For Dinner, Seminar, The Lyons and Godspell are all in hot water. Peter and the Starcatcher and Streetcar need to find some traction. And How to Succeed should have done well enough to pull it through for another omnth or two, but they need to bring in the next big celebrity if they want to keep it going.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Michael Bennett]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#10

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:06pm

Don't Dress for Dinner is a subscriber based production. It would very unlikely post an early closing notice.

[macnyc]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#11

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:14pm

Seems to me that revenue for Other Desert Cities has fallen off a lot. Any ideas why? Just because the show has been running for a while?

[Mister Matt]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#12

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:16pm

Ah yes, I forgot about that Roundabout subscriber thingy.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[ACL2006]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#13

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:29pm

Steady numbers for Sister Act, Once, Nice Work & Ghost. Ghost should at least stick around for the summer, regardless of Tony noms. Leap of Faith & Magic/Bird might be gone by Sunday. And How to Succeed looks like it'll close on July 1 as I would think they would have announced a replacement for Nick Jonas by now. I have to wonder if Anything Goes will extend again past September.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

Updated On: 4/30/12 at 04:29 PM

[massofmen]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#14

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:39pm

ummm Ghost was only doing 7 performances..now they are doing 8. its not a jump. its adding the last show.

[ACL2006]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#15

Posted: 4/30/12 at 4:40pm

but you have to figure that tickets for opening night of Ghost were mostly comps, so it's grosses basically represent 7 performances. we'll see how it does next week.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[Mister Matt]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#16

Posted: 4/30/12 at 5:01pm

The Gross Potential for Ghost was adjusted for the added performance, so there was a small bump by a little over 6%.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Jonwo]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#17

Posted: 4/30/12 at 5:08pm

Anything Goes I think will close in September but it depends on if Roundabout want to put in another show or rent it out. I'm surprised that Drood didn't end there.

[tmbyru]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#18

Posted: 4/30/12 at 5:15pm

Good for Ghost! I'm glad to see it do well. I enjoyed it. As for Leap of Faith, it needs to get.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#19

Posted: 4/30/12 at 5:45pm

Yay for that increase for my favorite show...."Chicago". from RC in Austin, Texas

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

[kyl3fong2]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#20

Posted: 4/30/12 at 6:05pm

Glad to see that bump for GHOST!


It also looks like Spider-Man is losing steam. Normally when Wicked and Lion King are pulling in $1.7 million Spider-Man is somewhere up near the $1.5 or higher range and not lower towards the $1 mill mark.

If the show starts grossing below $1 million a week, given its expensive weekly running cost do you think it will have to close?

[Smaxie]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#21

Posted: 4/30/12 at 6:20pm

Ghost's average ticket price is really low - $62.62, just 3 cents above Clybourne Park and in the neighborhood of what they are paying for Godspell. Mary Poppins, in its fifth year, is bringing in $10 higher at $72.05. Don't mean to be a killjoy, but those figures are a little frightening.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[blaxx]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#22

Posted: 4/30/12 at 6:28pm

Don't mean to be a killjoy, but those figures are a little frightening.

Yes, it's not doing very good at all.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[binau]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#23

Posted: 4/30/12 at 6:45pm

"Even before seeing the grosses, I was surprised that LEAP didn't close yesterday. The AVERAGE ticket price paid for LEAP was $24! I usually don't pay much attention to that, but has it ever been so low for other shows? "

Even GLORY DAYS, a notorious flop had a higher average ticket price for its run than Leap of Faith. The other recent show I can think of with a very low ticket price was HIGH (average of $26 for its 4.5 week run). Leap of Faith is probably breaking records here. Congratulations to all involved :P.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

Updated On: 4/30/12 at 06:45 PM

[tmbyru]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12#24

Posted: 4/30/12 at 7:32pm

Lysistrata had low ticket sales like $24 a ticket in the end.