Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/12

[Rob]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 3:16pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/13/2012 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: GODSPELL (17.9%), MAGIC/BIRD (14.6%), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (12.0%), HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (11.1%), SISTER ACT (8.4%), PORGY AND BESS (7.2%), GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN (6.8%), ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (5.7%), ANYTHING GOES (5.0%), END OF THE RAINBOW (3.8%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (3.8%), OTHER DESERT CITIES (3.2%), GHOST (2.6%), ROCK OF AGES (2.4%), THE COLUMNIST (2.3%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (2.2%), ONCE (2.2%), NEWSIES (1.6%), MEMPHIS (1.5%), LEAP OF FAITH (1.2%), JERSEY BOYS (0.7%), DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER (0.7%), WAR HORSE (0.4%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-8.9%), MAMMA MIA! (-7.6%), WICKED (-4.8%), MARY POPPINS (-4.2%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-3.1%), CLYBOURNE PARK (-2.4%), PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (-2.0%), EVITA (-1.2%), THE LYONS (-0.8%), VENUS IN FUR (-0.8%), CHICAGO (-0.8%), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (-0.2%),

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[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 3:22pm

It looks like the Imperial Theatre has another hit. But I will be curious to see what its grosses will be like whenever Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara leave.

Updated On: 5/14/12 at 03:22 PM

[bdn223]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 3:24pm

Spiderman is officially loosing money...if grosses don't pick up ALOT in the summer id expect a closing notice by september

[willep]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 3:55pm

Glad to see Once and Peter and the Starcatcher growing.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:11pm

Summers just around the corner, Spiderman will make a killing then.

I think it's interesting to see Wicked in 3rd. When's the last time that happened?

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:16pm

Hmm a while. Not surprised though. LK does not offer lotto and has more premiums I believe. And with Book of Mormon's ticket prices, well that was only a matter of time haha

[Ejm105989]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:29pm

So happy that One Man, Two Guvnors is doing well (probably good word of mouth)

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:33pm

Spiderman will be fine. And I'm sure they could easily get some celebrity to come into the show if they needed.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:37pm

Is this the lowest Wicked has been since it opened?

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:38pm

Very good week all around!

[supersam1026]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:53pm

With this decline, Wicked won't make it past the summer!

[EatTheBrownie]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:56pm

Spider-Man should team with the Obama campaign and capitalize on the fact that Mormon is on Broadway and do this:

Create a campaign ad depicting Romney, dressed as a Mormon, with all of his fellow missionaries singing Bullying By Numbers where they hold Reeve Carney down and cut his hair.

End the ad with "This election year, do you want to be a bully, or do you want to Rise Above? Obama 2012. Brought to you, in part, by Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Now playing only at The Foxwoods Theare, NY, NY".

Guaranteed, that will sell tickets.

[EatTheBrownie]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 4:58pm

Or better yet, "Brought to you by Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark - The official musical of America"

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:14pm

Awww....what a special day! Brownie, I actually enjoyed one of your posts!

[EatTheBrownie]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:19pm

I have my rare moments.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:23pm

Evita is doing great business. When will it recoup?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:28pm

Evita just opened. It will MONTHS to recoup. Could be as few as 6 or closer to a year. (I doubt it would need to go more than a year) Of course, there is no guarantee, that it will continue to sell at this rate.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:39pm

"Is this the lowest Wicked has been since it opened?"

No in the week ending on 9-11-2011, it grossed $1.2 million and it played eight performances.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm?days=2011-09-11

Updated On: 5/14/12 at 05:39 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:45pm

1.2 million. (12 mill in a week would be awesome!)

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 5:47pm

^That makes more sense. I really think there are a lot of other examples though but I don't feel like taking the time to find out.

(On a completely unrelated note - just noticed I became a "legend" at some point. I don't know when but it must've been kind of recently!)

Updated On: 5/14/12 at 05:47 PM

[jdrye222]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 7:14pm

Glad to see the slow but steady improvements for ONCE, STARCATCHER, and PORGY AND BESS. I think these will be three shows that get a steady new interest throughout the next couple months.
PS - how does ones "title" change, broadwaydevil??

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 7:16pm

it has to do with the number of posts you have made. No idea what the 'scehdule' is though.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 7:23pm

Wicked was the first thing I noticed, so many other good shows for people to go to now, if the figures stay like this in the summer, I can see the producers looking at TKT's as a option, has the show recouped yet?

[willep]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 7:25pm

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[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 7:26pm

Phantom of London - Wicked recouped a LONG time ago, like 2004, lol.