Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:50pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/13/2007 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 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:54pm

congrats to THE PIRATE QUEEN and GREY GARDENS for pulling up their numbers money-wise
they each made about $20,000 this week compared with last week
slight boost, but still a nice one :)

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#3

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:55pm

This is almost funny.

Almost. Another 1% climb for Company? Go team!

Ugh.

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#4

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:58pm

OH. MY. GOD. I didn't think "Journey's End" could go any lower, but there it is at 21.8%. At this rate, even if they sweep the noms tomorrow, they'll probably have to post a closing notice within the week.

#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:58pm

Quite a jump for LoveMusik!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:03pm

Go Curtains.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:03pm

I know this gets said every week but WTF Journey's End?!!? this is so sad!!

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#8

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:04pm

Well LoveMusik had low capacity last week for it's opening, so that jump is to be expected.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:09pm

Of course, these numbers don't mean anything until TOMORROW. :)

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:10pm

TOMORROW will have little effect on the numbers.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:19pm

Nice to see a little rise for GG. Company fans, at least you can be happy for the award recognition the show is getting. Maybe it will boost its box office.

Journey's End, oh crap!

...and of course, woohoo Curtains!

Updated On: 5/14/07 at 04:19 PM

#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:21pm

wow, good jump for Elle Woods. Money in the bank.

#13

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:22pm

I hear you MiracleElixir, I finally got a chance to JE on Thurs. amazing, I was in tears by the end, especially when I turned around and looked up at the COMPLETELY EMPTY mezz. And after seeing these reports, I'm almost in tears again.

everyone should see this show. NOW

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:24pm

How much longer can some of these shows hang on?? It's so sad to see quality barely making it -- hopefully tomorrow (and the coming weeks) can help some of them.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:40pm

Drowsy Chaperone in the sixties - when did that happen? And it's very amusing to watch the cheerleading for shows that went up 1%. Most of those shows do not have wonderful average ticket prices. It doesn't matter, though - today's producers would rather lose money than admit defeat. It's actually shocking.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 4:42pm

I was being completely sarcastic in my "cheerleading." 1% is hardly an achievement; it's a crying shame.

I think I'm going to see Journey's End tomorrow. Love my underdogs.

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Updated On: 5/14/07 at 04:42 PM

#17

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 5:09pm

Emcee, JE is excellent.

I need to go back to Company. I really loved it the first time.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:37pm

Oh, gosh, Journey's End. I can't believe it's doing so poorly. I'd love to see it again.

See this show!

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:47pm

yeah it looks like LB had a great week.

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#20

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:52pm

Go Coram Boy! 11% increase! Yay! (Of course the percentage is still abysmal, but yay for increases!)

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#21

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/15/07 at 12:34pm

bk - strange reaction to producers being willing to lose money to keep shows open. "Shocking"? How about gracious? Producers could cut their losses and run but they believe in the shows they invest in, and are willing to sacrifice the almighty buck to have an unprofitable show continue. That is not "admitting defeat" - that's love of the theater.

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 12:34 PM

#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:17pm

Well, we can agree to disagree on this point. Producing shows is a business. Love of theater is lovely, but there is nothing gracious about costing your investors millions of dollars when the writing is on the wall. But, that's just my opinion.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:42pm

I was speaking as an investor. It is a business but if an investor wants to make money, theater is hardly the first place (or even the nth) to look. Shows rarely recoup, much less turn a profit.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:37pm

Nice to see Pirate Queen holding in the 70s. Maybe it will find an audience? Who knows.

I'd be really interested to know how many people are actually in the audience of JE every night.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/13/2007

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:04am

C'mon GG! Hopefully the Tony nominations will help to keep the show's grosses rising.

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