Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/4/14 — Page 2

I think If/Then will have a strong summer. I'm sure they will have additional discount codes, soon. I just hope Idina isn't going to take a vacation anytime soon, those sales will probably plummet.

Word-of-mouth is doing it for this show. Audiences love it.
Have they released a 2nd block of tickets (beyond October). How long before "Beautiful" can be considered an unqualified hit?

Updated On: 5/5/14 at 07:54 PM

If/Then would be tanking without Idina. Those reviews were tepid. The moment Idina leaves its over.

Mothers & Sons is abysmal. It proves to me that it is not so well-recieived. No one I personally know liked it. It managed to get some good reviews though but no one is going.

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I purposed the question on another board- about who's the bigger draw at Cinderella. I really feel that Fran is the one bringing people in- Every time I have seen it with the new cast, Fran always got a big entrance reaction from the audience, while Carly did not. I feel like many more people and a more varied audience know who Fran is.

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Mr. Kazee returning would be the only way to get me back to Once, unfortunately. That, or if Declan Bennett from the London production reprised his role on Broadway.

"I know it will never happen but I wish Steve Kazee would return to Once."

I went to Once the day after he completely f*cked his vocal chords. I have never been so upset about not seeing someone perform in a show. Unfortunately, he has stated that he can never do a Broadway (8 shows a week) schedule again due to that injury. Sigh.

The weather was also really crappy last week.

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I shouldn't be, but I am always surprised by the strenuously expressed desire by some to keep the same shows running for decades. Doesn't everyone want to see as much new theatre as possible on Broadway?

Last season, 44 shows opened on Broadway; 28 of those (64%) were revivals or featured significant amounts of pre-existing material.

50 years ago, the 1963-64 season had 71 shows, none of them revivals (although Josephine Baker's show may have featured some pre-existing songs).

Personally, I find the latter case to be a more exciting idea.

"A couple of people have said that the Roundabout's grosses don't matter. They are a non-profit organisation so I assume they're not looking to make a big profit - but their grosses have to matter. How can they be a sustainable organisation if they don't have enough funds to operate the company and put on productions? The fact that Cabaret is playing right now is proof enough that the Roundabout care about how much money is in their bank account."

Very few non-profit theatre companies rely on box office receipts as a very large percentage of their operating budget for the very reason that ticket sales are such a wildly fluctuating number that they can't be accurately relied upon when drawing up the budget for the current season. The large majority of the operating budget comes from donations and grants. Yes, they will often turn to a show such as Cabaret in the hopes to pad the coffers, but they still can't rely on that, especially before it goes into an open ended run and they are no longer dealing with subscribers and their reduced ticket prices bringing down the weekly gross.