Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/15

Nice to be first.

Wonder why 20th isn't doing better?

^ It played a full house (over 100% capacity) but a lot of those tickets were quite probably subscriber-based, and there may be comps for Tony voters right now, so that could account for the reduced grosses.

Kad- I thought that was the week before last? (But I've been tired and days are running together... so you may very well be correct)

I'm glad to see Fun Home steadily building its audience. I'm hoping for a healthy run à la Next to Normal.

"Wasn't Chenoweth out for a few performance last week?"

No, that was at least 2 or 3 weeks ago now, that she was out for 4/8, and capacity dropped to 80-something % that week.

Their grosses have gone up by almost 100% from early on in the run because of the average ticket price going up. It's at $100 now, when subscribers pay I think about $80 on average, so that's telling you something... Top ticket price is at $162 these days, and premiums at $229 I think. So the only reasonable way for them to make more money would be to jack up premiums. But they will never get anywhere near 100% potential gross because their subscribers pay substantially less than the normal ticket price.

The slight drop in gross but up in attendance I would also attribute to Tony comps (it's only a 800 seat theatre after all) and/or randomly more subscribers vs general audience in the house last week.

I am kinda surprised Jim Parsons isn't more of an event; it's doing fine and I guess it needs exposure to sell but I would have thought this would be one of those box office draw shows. Other things that haven't been mentioned. Hand to God is moving into an even more comfortable position while Visit continues not to move at all. And while no one is watching, Gigi is bleeding-probably losing more than the Visit on a higher playing field.

I am sorry for asking a possibly stupid question but will last weeks grosses be released tomorrow due to it being a holiday weekend?

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Thanks for answering.

I guess that the numbers across the board should get a boost from last week then.