Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:25pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/29/2007 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

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:29pm

Ugh...Company...

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:29pm

.....

Company, you'd better pray for Tonys. This is ridiculous.

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#4

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:29pm

Bad week for the usual 3 - Company, Grey Gardens, Journey's End.

Good week for Curtains.

#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

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

Oh Company....

I really hope they can hang in there, but it doesn't look good for them.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:37pm

Ouch.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:39pm

I don't understand how 3 heavily acclaimed productions (that are actually great) are doing so poorly.

THE PIRATE QUEEN is doing well, and GREY GARDENS can't even break even?

Christ.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:40pm

I understand it; it just pisses me off. I know it makes sense, that's the business, blah blah blah, but really, that doesn't make it any less frustrating.

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Updated On: 4/30/07 at 03:40 PM

#9

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:45pm

Acclaimed by the press, yes.

but the people are a different animal.

COMPANY should be folding up soon, pity.

#10

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:45pm

There's no accounting for taste. Or a brand name.

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Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:47pm

And COMPANY is a great play with a great cast!!!!

#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:48pm

Nice Curtains.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:51pm

Well COMPANY is a great play, but most of the acting in this version is sub par and people see that.
More than one person I have told to see it, think they are just walking around in a square playing instruments.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 3:54pm

Company was papered last week.

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Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:00pm

Why are all my favorite shows dying???

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#16

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:01pm

$350 for jersey boys!?!?!

go to a bowling alley or something people


ridiculous.

#17

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:01pm

We know Curtain.


Munk, I'm with you. How does a show like GG with a performance like Ebersole's struggle to break even, and a show that was trashed like PQ do well. It's ridiculous.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:05pm

Grey Gardens makes me sad.

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Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:09pm

oh company you're breaking my heart

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

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

Could it be time to reconsider the "Bat-Boy tabloid" advertising campaign for Grey Gardens? I saw the show based mostly on the buzz I got here and loved it, but those ads don't express anything about what makes that show work. Is it just unmarketable?

Also, can we finally stop talking about Pirate Queen as if they've already posted a closing notice? They're sure selling a lot more tickets than many of their Broadway neighbors. (Sorry Mel.)

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#21

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 4:31pm

51% for GG is f-ing dissappointing. Maybe it's the lack of quality advertising or maybe it's Joe and Mary from Topeka that just don't want to see Grey Gardens. I don't know much about the business side of of Broadway but I bet it's a bitch!

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#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 5:04pm

Actually, PIRATE QUEEN isn't doing that great in terms of its overall gross. If you notice the past three weeks, it seems to have peaked and it's continuously losing steam.
I wish there was a way for GREY GARDENS to do better, I think the main problem with the show is that most of the marketing seems to be based on Ebersole's performance and I think there are many other aspects to admire in this show. But oh well.
Wish LOVEMUSIK were doing better, but oh well.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 5:22pm

Hopefully LOVEMUSIK will receive positive reviews and the numbers will pick up. Not that it did anything for COMPANY, GREY GARDENS or JOURNEY'S END, but who knows?

I guess reviews really are meaningless in translating to ticket sales. All of the piece of garbage shows are filled to the brim, while the theatrical masterpieces are half empty.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 6:15pm

Regarding THE PIRATE QUEEN: I agree with Michael Bennett that the show peaked in terms of sales weeks ago, and that it is on a slow, but steady downfall now.

Regarding COMPANY: A f*****' shame, I agree.

Regarding GREY GARDENS: Yeah, the business on this one surprises me a bit. The story alone grabbed me when I first heard of it.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/2007

Posted: 4/30/07 at 6:21pm

Company, Grey Gardens and some others seem to also be on a "slow, but steady downfall". I hope that with Grey Gardens Tony wins for Ebersole and Wilson along with possibly book and score awards will bring those numbers up.

Pirate Queen could well benefit from the influx of tourists this summer. Does anyone think this is also true of Company?

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