Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:09pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/3/2011 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.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:24pm
Yikes La Cage exactly. How much longer can that hold out?
Also 8 performances for High are really bad. How long after it opens is it going to last? I would say the reviews need to be flat out Raves.
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broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:29pm
Fine...now I actually want to see it and "La Cage" is in pretty dire straits. Hope the positive reviews help this week.
Why didn't they just take "High" off-Broadway? Looks like another "Looped" run.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:34pmHigh has been heavily papered since previews began, which is why I could see the low gross. Hopefully once reviews come out, it will get better.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:43pmHonestly, everything was pretty bad this week.
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#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:52pm
High won't last too long, I may even say to opening...
DCROCKS
Swing Joined: 3/26/11
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:52pmI guess Daniel Radcliffe is critic proof! Good for How to Succeed.... Honestly I haven't listened to Ben Brantley since he gave Melanie Griffith a rave in CHICAGO !!!
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 4:17pmWOW Book of Mormon!!! and OUCH for La Cage! Pretty mixed numbers, Harvey's contract is through May 8(I believe), I have to wonder if it'll simply close then.
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#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 5:01pm
As much as I enjoyed "High", I think it would have been better off-Broadway. Even the tiny Booth theatre is too big for the play.
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minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 5:02pmWonderland isn't doing too awful haha...
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 5:07pmWell, Addams Family (no surprise) took a deep plunge... They obviously picked a good time to announce Brooke Shields coming in.
GhostLite
Swing Joined: 3/14/11
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 5:49pm
I would agree that shows like LaCage and Addams Family are well below the bar here. You can never count out the Weissler's when it comes to star casting, so you never know if they'll push their chips all in and try and find someone to replace Harvey or if they close up shop when his contract ends (according to the earlier post here about a possible May 8 end date)
It's a shame to see Addams Family dip below $600K and 60% capacity so soon after Roger went into the show. It would have been great for Addams Family to hang on a little closer to the grosses they were getting with Nathan and keep the train running on course. Now, all of sudden in less than a week, it appears that Brooke Shields is asked to hold the show. (A tip of the cap to the perfectly timed press release announcing her before the $600k figure is out so as to not officially say 'it's ok, Brooke Shields is coming'). I hope that as the weather improves they can return to form, otherwise they may get lost in the sea of new musicals.
Can even a good review save High ticket sales. It needs to be a bottom-of-the-ninth walk-off home run review to get that show any momentum. When can you recall in recent memory has an above-the-title star show generated such a small gross over 8 paid performances. Wow.
I also fear for Wonderland. I just don't know where they will find their audience over time. Word of mouth ain't the best, so they better hope their location smack in the heart of times square does them some favors.
Don't mean to sound so negative, let's give respect to the new shows who are proving that Broadway is having a great spring. Certainly the public has a lot to choose from to appease their palettes.
RENT_is_Wicked2
Stand-by Joined: 4/4/11
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 6:20pm
Well, Wonderland just finished its 2nd week in previews. It needs time to gain the audience that it wants, I saw the world premiere and pre-Broadway engagement in Tampa and I thought it was amazing. I do kind of worry though to, I just don't know how it will turn out.
Wicked is instantly 3 of the most popular shows currently on Broadway with The Lion KIng and Spiderman behind it. All three make over a gross of $1,000,000 per week.
Addams Family doesn't look to hot either, hope the tour starting later this year helps a lot.
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 6:27pmCritic Proof? HOW TO SUCCEED had perfectly fine reviews, with the major exception of the Times.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 6:34pmYes, let's stop perpetuating this myth that everyone panned How to Succeed. Most reviews were positive for the production and Radcliffe. The Times was the high profile exception, not the rule.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 7:09pmHow to Succeed had its share of positive reviews, but just in dealing with the top-flight print outlets, the reviews in Time Out, Daily News, Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times had some major reservations and New York Times, Washington Post, New York Observer and Bergen Record were negative.
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Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 7:28pmMy feeling is that La Cage is really being hurt by Priscilla. One too many drag shows. While I think La Cage is superior, Prisilla is newer, and that's what audiences want to see.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 7:34pmLa Cage is feeling the downward spiral of losing stars. Priscilla didn't do this.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 7:37pmLooks like Elvis is about to leave the building.
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Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 9:40pmI'm with Adamgreer on this one. Brantley was the high-profile exception, but the vast majority of Radcliffe's reviews (and the production's) were pretty wonderful. And let's not forget that there were a number of out-and-out raves from other 'top-flight' publications: The New Yorker, New York magazine, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, etc.
Scottsacto
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/05
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 9:55pmAnyone else notice that with last weeks" grosses--Suddenly discount codes for "How to Succeed..." are dropping off discount sites! The producers are hearing the "Ka-Ching" of Cash Registers filling up for this one!
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/4/11 at 10:22pmI have to think MDQ is on the way out, I mean even if the show is cheap to produce (which everyone keeps saying it is), can you really maintain a show with an average attendance of 45%? Yikes!
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#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/7/11 at 5:52pmAlthough Sister Act is reporting 93.2% sales, it is actually only selling 69% of the Broadway Theatre's true capacity. I thought the total number of seats looked pretty low for such a big theatre and It must be because 500 or so seats are off sale for each performance! Better hope it picks up!
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/3
Posted: 4/7/11 at 11:28pmMy math tells me that they have 260 seats curtained off.
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