Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 3:28pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/16/2010 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.
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 3:32pm
Pretty much nice week overall.
Nice numbers for American Idiot and Everday Rapture.
HAIR keeps on seeming to climb higher and higher each week.
Hopefully these numbers are a sign of the good things that will com this summer.
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 3:55pm
"HAIR keeps on seeming to climb higher and higher each week"
I doubt it will get any higher...this I would easily say is one of their better weeks.
"Nice numbers for American Idiot and Everday Rapture"
Yea, but American Idiot's number still worry me a little bit...
PROMISES, PROMISES got a good haul this week.
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#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:19pm
PROMISES, PROMISES keeps pulling amazing numbers.
MEMPHIS' gross is slowly getting to where it should be..
LA CAGE is also doing great business, with their best week yet and at 95% capacity.
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#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:27pmMDQ was up 8.2% from last week, good to see.
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#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:28pmI'm pretty sure LA CAGE broke a record for the Longacre this week. Good for them! I still have to see it!!
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:30pm
"
Yea, but American Idiot's number still worry me a little bit... "
Are you looking at it's gross? its doing great
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#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:58pm
AI's grosses are good, not great. But it's clearly in the wrong theater, not even coming close to filling that place. 4th largest active theater on bway, but "only" pulling about $800K. Not bad by any stretch, but not really blowing the doors off either.
Hair keeps going up and up? Huh? It's been up two weeks in a row, because 3 weeks ago its gross was beneath abysmal. Still losing money. Hair needs the summer badly.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 5:07pm
Love seeing American Idiot & La Cage continue to climb a little more every week. With La Cage selling out at least on the weekends, does anyone know if they are offering SRO now???
Hair hasn't improved, this is it's 5th straight week where they've fallen below their nut(rumored to be around 400K). Even if it has a decent summer, I don't see it staying open past Labor day.
And for two shows that got poor reviews, Addams & Promises continue to pull in million dollar grosses. Kudos!!
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#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 6:48pmBy number, I meant percent capacity...Of course their gross is amazing, but it's not selling out...
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 6:48pmBy number, I meant percent capacity...Of course their gross is amazing, but it's not selling out...
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#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 6:55pm
The number of people in the seats doesn't matter if they are making money.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:09pm
But it's clearly in the wrong theater, not even coming close to filling that place. 4th largest active theater on bway
Barney Stinson, I don't know where you are getting your info from, but the St. James is NOT the 4th largest active theatre on Broadway. It's the 7th largest, behind the Gershwin, New Amsterdam, Palace, Broadway, Minskoff, and Majestic. It's 8th if you include the Hilton between the Gershwin and the New Amsterdam.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:31pm
At least per the grosses chart that started this thread:
Gershwin: 14,472
New Amsterdam: 14,376
Broadway: 13,976
St. James: 13,672
Palace: 13,576
Minskoff: 13,416
Majestic: 12,920
Sorry bjh, but this would seem to support BarneyStinson's post.
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#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:53pmInteresting. I wasn't looking at the seat count from the page with the grosses. I was going off the reported full capacities of the individual theatres. I am intrigued by these numbers. Usually the Palace can sell up to 14,272 a week. The St. James number confuses me the most though. Typically, the St. James has 1623 seats, which when multiplied by 8 show for a typical week equals 12,984. I would like to know where those extra 688 seats a week (86 seats per show) came from.
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#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:57pmThe extra seats come from rows AA and BB, inserted in the front of the orchestra because the pit is not used for this production (the band is on stage, and awesome). Regular theatre lists often include just the regular capacity, so for the St. James, a musical house, that would more often than not mean the pit in use.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 11:01pmBut those two rows make up 86 seats? They must have added seats somewhere else too.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 11:04pm
Or the fact that the St. James has 1710 seats.
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#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 11:06pmbjh, where were you getting your numbers? I just checked the most recent copy of the Theatrical Index and many of the seating capacities listed are out-of-date. For example, they still list the Gershwin has having all the extra seats that were removed before Oklahoma!.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 11:40pmAh! It's possible that those numbers are old. I guess they weren't necessarily updated if there were renovations or restorations done between shows. And frogs, I don't typically trust IBDB. Their numbers tend to be way off.
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#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/17/10 at 11:51pm
"At least per the grosses chart that started this thread:
Gershwin: 14,472
New Amsterdam: 14,376
Broadway: 13,976
St. James: 13,672
Palace: 13,576
Minskoff: 13,416
Majestic: 12,920
Sorry bjh, but this would seem to support BarneyStinson's post. "
Yep, that's what I was going off, just added up the total weekly seats for each show currently playing.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/18/10 at 1:35am
bjh -- The St. James was renovated (paint restoration, new carpeting, seating, reconfiguration of restrooms, reconfiguration of lobby, and probably some other stuff I haven't noticed), I believe, following the close of "Swing!" and before "The Producers" came in. That renovation yielded the additional seating, most notably (though not exclusively) via the installation of 15 seats across in each of the center sections instead of the more typical 14.
As an interesting side note, I believe NY State law requires no less than 7 seats to an exit aisle (older theatres with continental seating like the Minskoff are grandfathered in). Somewhere along the line -- I'm guessing when they renovated the Martin Beck in 1996 -- someone at Jujamcyn realized that this law permitted an extra seat in the center section -- i.e. the center seat in a row of 15 seats was still in compliance with the law. Apparently, they decided that the inherent sales difficulties presented by having an odd number of seats in each center row, and the resulting need to use the narrowest possible and least comfortable theatre seats (to fit 15 in the center without losing seats in the side sections as a result) were outweighed by the ability to sell an additional center orchestra, center mezzanine and/or center balcony seat. And thus, the Hirschfeld and the St. James each have the 15 seats across in the center and if they ever re-seat the Kerr, O'Neill, or Wilson (though all have been renovated within the last 15 years so that seems unlikely anytime soon), I would expect those to follow suit.
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#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/18/10 at 8:11am
Interesting. Thanks so much for that info. The things you learn! 
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:03am
wdw says Hopefully these numbers are a sign of the good things that will com this summer.
You do know, don't you, that summer generally marks a lull in theatre going?
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/16
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:50am
You do know, don't you, that summer generally marks a lull in theatre going?
And you do know, don't you, that July is typically Broadway's highest grossing month out of the entire year?
ETA: Just go back and look at the 2009 grosses from long running shows (Wicked, Phantom, Chicago, etc) and you'll see the spike during the summer months.
Updated On: 5/19/10 at 10:50 AM
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