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#1

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 6:03pm

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24 Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/24/2009 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

#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 6:09pm

Yay N2N and 9 to 5.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#6

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 6:13pm

9to5 keeps climbing and climbing... and Shrek seems to be hanging in there too...

next to normal is really making under 400K at 90%...? is that a function of its tiny theater or low ticket price? I would think it would be doing better.

meanwhile how the hell is august osage county staying open? I really can not understand why the producers insist on keeping that show open at 40% attendance. Are they making any money at this point? Do they think people are going to flock to see Phyliscia Rashad?
#8

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 6:46pm

August:Osage County has already recouped so the producers probably have a lot cash to fund the show if it's not making its nut with the hope that Rashad will bring in more $. Next to Normal's average ticket price is pretty low ($60) because they seem to be doing a lot of promos. That & the tiny theatre account for the low gross.
#9

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 6:47pm

Loving the numbers for Hair!!! A second week being over $900K!! It should be recouping very soon! Let's hope those numbers stay like that for the entire summer.

If Rashad doesn't bring August's numbers up, it'll be closing very soon. She's gotta be the only reason the show is staying open.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#10

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:20pm

Very happy about this week.

Thanks Memorial Day and the beginning of summer.
#11

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:21pm

Good jump for most of the shows. I wish Desire stayed like that from the beginning because they probably could have afforded to continue bringing in 350K a week. Nice jump for the Disney shows and Shrek. I don't know what to say now with the whole Little Mermaid "closing" because they definitely picked up. This coming week I personally think they will hit a million because Sierra Boggess is leaving Sunday.

Updated On: 5/26/09 at 07:21 PM

#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:35pm

Nice jump for the Disney shows especially Shrek.

Disney has nothing to do with Shrek. Shrek is produced by Dreamworks.

I don't know what to say now with the whole Little Mermaid "closing" because they definitely picked up.

As we all knew it would. This is just like Legally Blonde last year. The show is going to see its grosses plummet this fall, just like LB's did.

This coming week I personally think they will hit a million because Sierra Boggess is leaving Sunday.

Very, very, very few of the ticket buyers to The Little Mermaid care at all that it's Sierra Boggess' last week.
#13

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:46pm

adamgreer- how come everything I say you have to backlash it all. People have their right to have opinion and not be treated like the way others treat people. People on this board are completely rude and are so freckin opinionated that they don't frecking care about what others think.. Like everybody had the whole thing with shows and when people like the ones that others hate, they get bashed for it. Leave people the hell alone and stop worrying about stupid ****
#14

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:52pm

People have their right to have opinion

Shrek being produced by Dreamworks, not Disney, is not an opinion. That's a fact.

As for the rest of your post, it's far too incoherent to even attempt to make sense out of.
#16

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 7:58pm

Mermaid and Shrek's bumps are summer/family trends. Not sustainable. The average person doesn't know who Sierra is either.
#18

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 8:26pm

I'm so happy for next to normal!
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5 May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#19

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:07pm

I saw the Saturday matinee of Desire Under the Elms -- the house was full and I think Rosemary Harris was in the audience (couldn't tell for sure). It was truly a mesmerizing piece of acting from all the leads and, at curtain, the audience seemed to agree. Personally, I think it's CRIMINAL that Carla didn't get a Tony nod, ditto Pablo and Brian. What a shame that it came too late in the season and didn't have the chance to profit off the reviews. One of this seasons sad but true happenings.
BroadwayEd
#20

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:31pm

I'm so happy for Next to Normal.
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#21

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:59pm

I'm happy for REASONS. It keeps climbing, slowly but surely.

Good for 9 TO 5.

And, of course, I'm happy for N2N.

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Not a bad week!
#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:23pm

Hmm...I thought 9 to 5 and Shrek were absolutely dead and would close by Labor Day.

Shrek is making $170,000 over its "nut" and 9 to 5 is making $200,000.
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