Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#1

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:23pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/5/2009 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

[ljay889]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#2

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:25pm

Nice. WSS has the highest attendance.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#2

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:27pm

Great week!

For all the ROA fangirls who were about to start yelling about its 90% attendance, I have to point out its average ticket price is $38.

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[ACL2006]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#3

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:34pm

YEAH for Hair!!! Nice numbers considering the amount of comps for opening night. Keep it up!!!

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[Sondheim_Geek]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#4

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:40pm

Good news for Hair and Shrek.

And I think its too early to say anything for Next to Normal - they knew that this was going to be a show based off of reviews, word of mouth, and awards, predicting a few rough weeks in the beginning.

[jennamajig]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#5

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:45pm

^I'm a little worried about NTN's average ticket price, but I do remember it is previews, with some comps and TDF tickets going on to spread the word of mouth.

And can Rock of Ages maintain a $38 average ticket price? Do alcohol sales factor into their running costs? I realize their low ticket price may have to do with an offer to generate buzz and word of mouth as well, and that they offer may be gone come summer. I suppose time will tell...

...and every time I read the grosses, I am still amazed at how well Phantom of Opera sells. I mean, is there anyone left that hasn't seen the show at least once? :)

[sgv123]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#6

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:49pm

I have not seen Phantom yet, but I don't plan to either.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#7

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:49pm

Alcohol goes to the house.

[jennamajig]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#8

Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:53pm

^^Hmm, the house is probably racking it in then based on some of the reviews I've read here. I wonder what their weekly operation costs are...

[BlueforBroadway]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#9

Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:10pm

I can't figure out how the $38 avg ticket price for ROA is figured. They have some lottery for $26.50, but there can't be so many to drive the price down so low. When I bought tix, I used a $51 promo. Now the promos are no longer valid for the weekends. Unless all the tickets for this week were promo price and comps. I'd like to know how that all works.

Oh, wait, YAY! for the 94%!

Jekyll & Hyde back on Broadway! / Rock of Ages - 5 Tony nominations! Awesome!

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#10

Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:14pm

Ouch for ROA

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[jennamajig]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#11

Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:16pm

Well, hadn't ROA been on TDF as well for a bit? It's not there now, but during previews, etc. it was. That could also be driving prices down perhaps? I'd have thought that number would have come up by now, though.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

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

Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:24pm

Ouch for Next To Normal. 70% capacity at $47 a ticket. Hope they pick up...

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[perfectliar]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#13

Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:32pm

RoA has a LOT of discount codes out there (the only LunchTix discount I've gotten in weeks was for $39 tickets to it)... plus the low average price factors in TDF, the TKTS booth, lottery, and the fact that the highest ticket is only $89 during previews.

Nice to see some struggling shows pulling through... reasons to be pretty only managed to lose about $1,000 in its heavily-comped opening week (though those numbers are still VERY low). Shrek had a nice jump; Impressionism doesn't look to have lost much from its poor reviews; God of Carnage continues to climb; Exit the King looks to have benefitted from its raves.

I can't imagine A:OC holding out much longer... it slips each week. And Irena's Vow isn't looking too good either. And what the hell happened at Guys & Dolls? That's a huge decline!

[DAME]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#14

Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:34pm

That is not that great for hair. Comps wouldn't subtract from the percentage. Lets be real.

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[perfectliar]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#15

Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:55pm

DAME - I could be wrong (and if I am, someone please correct me) but I always thought that the attendance percentages were done by "Seats Sold" versus "Total Seats." If a seat is comped, it wouldn't technically be a "seat sold." So I don't think comps are a part of grosses OR percentages.

Yes? No? Someone more knowledgable have a better answer?

[MamasDoin'Fine]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#16

Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:00pm

Great week!
Great week?
'Guys And Dolls' down 21%
yea GREAT week! NOT!

[adamgreer]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#17

Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:08pm

If comps counted against the %, Next to Normal would be much lower in terms of percentage.

[DAME]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#18

Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:11pm

I don't think comps count against the percentage. Isn't the percentage just based on capacity? Good number for Hair. But not earth shattering... YET.

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[legally_popular]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#19

Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:14pm

Why does it say 0% for Next to Normal's previous week? It started previews on March 27th.

[perfectliar]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#20

Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:21pm

I assumed that they weren't factored in because a show's percentage shouldn't necessarily fall with comps... it's grosses maybe. But if people are still filling seats, shouldn't the percentages still be high? Unless there are just lots of seats that go unused on opening nights for people who don't show up?

[willep]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#21

Posted: 4/6/09 at 8:11pm

Ouch! How is that a great week for just about anybody?

[wdwfreak]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#22

Posted: 4/6/09 at 9:04pm

I wonder why Mary Stuary was so low. Ticket prices will increase within the next two weeks as kids are off of school for spring break.

[DAME]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#23

Posted: 4/6/09 at 9:07pm

Between easter and Passover festivities will next week go down a little more before it goes up?

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[Smaxie]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/5#24

Posted: 4/6/09 at 9:35pm

Grosses will fall next week for Passover/Easter and pick up immediately after.

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