Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/15

[Rob]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 3:56pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/24/2015 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: THE VISIT (11.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (11.2%), ON THE TOWN (11.1%), LES MISÉRABLES (8.8%), JERSEY BOYS (6.1%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (4.9%), CHICAGO (4.6%), FINDING NEVERLAND (4.1%), MAMMA MIA! (3.7%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (3.6%), BEAUTIFUL (2.8%), MATILDA (2.1%), AN ACT OF GOD (1.9%), WICKED (1.8%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (1.6%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (1.3%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (1.2%), KINKY BOOTS (1.0%), THE LION KING (0.7%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (0.5%), SKYLIGHT (0.4%), HAND TO GOD (0.3%), FUN HOME (0.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (-4.0%), WOLF HALL PARTS ONE & TWO (-2.8%), GIGI (-1.6%), AIRLINE HIGHWAY (-0.5%), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (-0.5%), THE AUDIENCE (-0.2%),

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[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:00pm

so it looks like strong odds that THE VISIT is gone right after the Tony Awards. Even if Chita comes away with the Tony herself. Those numbers are sad.

 

Glad to see ON THE TOWN continuing to improve.

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:01pm

A nice jump for On The Town. I wonder if this had anything to do with Fleet Week?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:09pm

You GO, On The Town!!! (z snapped)

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:17pm

Not to burst your excited bubbles for On the Town, but their nut is 650k, or 675k as quoted here
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/theater/on-the-town-producers-keep-faith-in-their-investment.html?_r=0

They still aren't meeting it.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:20pm

Did phantom really break a million. How long has it been since they've last done that?

[Sunny11]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:21pm

Can we confidently call finding neverland critic proof yet?

 If it can attract memorial weekend tourists like this then it's numbers will likely stay strong over the summer at least. 

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:26pm

"Did phantom really break a million. How long has it been since they've last done that?"

 Six weeks ago.

[A1st]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:43pm

Im happy that they reached 102%, but anyone know why Something Rotten's gross potential is so low? I'd expect it to be higher since the show is playing at the St James...

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:47pm

^ That does seem wrong...

 

American Idiot's was much higher.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/AMERICAN-IDIOT

Updated On: 5/26/15 at 04:47 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 4:58pm

Something Rotten has posted the same potential gross ($1,036,040) for the last several weeks.  They are selling fewer seats than American Idiot did (13,336 potential per week vs. 13,672), so I assume a portion of the balcony is still closed off.  In addition they may also have a greater variance in their pricing breakdown (i.e. more seats priced at a lower price, which is why you'll notice Matilda has a lower gross potential than Kinky Boots, even though they have a slightly higher capacity).

[skies]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 6:27pm

This certainly bodes well for "Finding Neverland" that it's still grossing a million/week with the start of the summer season.

I would imagine it needs to run at least another 6 months to end up recouping its costs.

 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 6:35pm

"This certainly bodes well for "Finding Neverland" that it's still grossing a million/week with the start of the summer season.
I would imagine it needs to run at least another 6 months to end up recouping its costs.
 "

At least six months, but I would say a safer bet is that you wouldn't see a recoupment announcement until at least next year, provided they are able to maintain these kinds of sales (which I would venture to say they will be able to maintain at least through the summer).

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 6:55pm

"Did phantom really break a million. How long has it been since they've last done that?"

 

 

Not sure why anyone who reads the grosses would be surprised at Phantom breaking a million. This is the 4th time already this year and they did it 15 times last year.  

 

[SweetLips]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 7:38pm

Still surprises me that with Kristin C  the publicity, adoration, awards etc that OTTC is not sold out/standing room every night.

Maybe after the awards...but then EVERY show will be sold out after 'that night'.

I suggest a year where the word 'Tony' is not mentioned as it will bring theatre bad luck, like the word Macbeth [is that the right one?].

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 8:02pm

Every seat in the St. James Balcony is for sale

[_IrisTInkerbell]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 9:04pm

OTTC played .2% under capacity.That's only 9 (NINE) seats less than last week when they played at 100.3%. Roundabout doesn't have a standing room policy (They appear to be able to add a few portable chairs in the back when needed, for example for Kristin's parents when they were in town around ON).

I don't see an issue in 9 empty seats over a full week, especially when you take into consideration that subscribers can return and exchange tickets any time they want.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 9:22pm

The biggest shock to me this week is that OTTC, playing to mostly subscription, fixed price houses, made only a little over $10k less than OTT. 

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 9:49pm

I'm praying The Visit hangs on until at least a week after the Tonys. I won't have a chance to see it until then, and it breaks my heart that the talent behind this piece aren't finding success with it. 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 11:11pm

This is the problem: conflicting answers. Is SR selling the whole balcony or not? Cause if they are, the numbers are just wrong.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 11:38pm

SR is selling the entire balcony. I believe the first 2 rows in the orchestra were removed for the stage. There are 42 seats missing from each performance compared to the numbers of AI, so I believe that is where the numbers are off.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 5/26/15 at 11:46pm

so thrilled to see the numbers for Hand To God growing from week to week  

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 5/27/15 at 12:04am

I think The Visit will be around for a couple weeks after the Tony's. I think it's likely they will post closing either the day after the awards or one week later.

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 5/27/15 at 1:00am

""Did phantom really break a million. How long has it been since they've last done that?"
 
 
Not sure why anyone who reads the grosses would be surprised at Phantom breaking a million. This is the 4th time already this year and they did it 15 times last year.  
 

 
Wishful thinking on their parts; some people like to pretend that the show is doing worse than it actually is.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 5/27/15 at 11:50am

"Still surprises me that with Kristin C  the publicity, adoration, awards etc that OTTC is not sold out/standing room every night."

 

Also, Roundabout just has very strange ticketing policies, even for a subscriber-based non-profit producer. Even if a show has been sold out or nearly sold out except for a few of the worst seats (although "bad" AAA seats would be some of the best seats in other theaters), a day or two before a show date they dump about thirty or forty seats, including some of the best seats, back on the market at face value. Probably some of the full price tickets are never sold on such short notice.

 

Alert theatergoers who can afford full price can snatch some good seats by waiting until the last moment.