Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/1/2011 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.

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

#2

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:09pm

Omg, Mother****er!

#3

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:17pm

The power of Oprah!

#4

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:24pm

I'm mad Lion King rains supreme.

#5

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:37pm

Book of Mormon SMASHING more records. Thats so much money for that small theater. This thing is a juggernaut

#6

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:45pm

Yay for Sister Act and War Horse!

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#7

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 3:54pm

It's nice to see "Sister Act" do well. It got a boost due to good word of mouth.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 4:27pm

ljay and tag -- just FYI, I believe it's a typo and you will be seeing a correction shortly. I'm told the figure is actually $612k (rather than $912k), which is DOWN a little bit, though still a lovely figure for a play these days.

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#9

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 4:32pm

That Book of Mormon gross is amazing - 3rd highest of the week, and in only a medium sized theatre. Not such a great week for Priscilla, Addams Family or Wonderland.

#10

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:01pm

I guess Stiller and/or Falco have a sizable fan base.

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#11

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:03pm

Sister Act is doing well by % but not by gross....It's at TKTS every night it seems.

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#12

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:10pm

Jeez, Priscilla really took a dive...

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#13

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:24pm

TKTS, how can you insinuate that "Sister Act" isn't doing well by gross? This week was up over $107K than last week.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:31pm

Because it's potential gross is $1,334,271 meaning it's only reaching 59.91% of it's potential. That means it's heavily discounting to achieve that 99% attendance figure. That would be fine for a two year old show but this is a new show.

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#15

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/2/11 at 7:34pm

La Cage definitely didn't go out with a bang. What a shame!

#16

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/3/11 at 3:00pm

You just need to look at the average ticket price for Sister Act to also see its not doing steller business

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/1

Posted: 5/3/11 at 3:09pm

They cut the mezz in half too.

I'm just surprised it's not doing better business. It really is a fun show, but maybe the movie version is just too good?