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

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 5:52pm

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.

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 6:43pm

^

I guess it must be hard for a show to have a star. D: Hopefully Idina Menzel will continue to stay there. ^^

I'm very happy that Aladdin is holding fast and oh my, Cinderella is hemorrhaging..: ( I'm glad that Casa Valentina is going up a little. : )

[BobNC]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 7:54pm

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

[stevenycguy]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 7:59pm

Rocky did horribly - it only filled 2/3 of the house and only made 56% of its gross potential. Must be embarrassing to have so many empty seats at that theater.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 8:16pm

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.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 9:39pm

I still think "Once" sticks around for the summer. It should still do decent business. Without some kind of "name" for the Fall, there's no way it stays open with grosses below $500K.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 10:36pm

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.

[AirJewels]

Posted: 5/5/14 at 10:38pm

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

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 12:00am

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.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 12:03am

re: MAMMA MIA… not saying that rush lines are ANY indication of how a show is doing… but I find it so interesting that every single morning as I walk to work that out of the five theaters on 44th between Broadway and 8th, four of which do some sort of "rush," MAMMA MIA has been drawing a HUGE line before the box office opens every day recently... while I can't tell you how many days I've walked passed Bullets or Rock of Ages to no line outside. Again, this is no indication of how the show is doing whatsoever, but it's interesting. They do seem to be finding their audience again. Or the audience is finding them down on 44th street… LOL.





Updated On: 5/6/14 at 12:03 AM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 12:10am

"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.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 1:03am

And, the discount for Orchestra seats for If/Then just got extended until June.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 3:40am

The weather was also really crappy last week.

[binau]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 4:45am

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.

Meanwhile, BRIDGES had their worst week ever. I'm sad to see it go .

[newintown]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 8:36am

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.

[Up In One]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 8:44am

Aladdin up, Cinderella down - didn't this happen last year with Annie and Cinderella? With the addition of Lion King and Matilda maybe the kiddie market is saturated

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 10:30am

"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.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 10:40am

In an ideal scenario half of a non-profit's operating budget would be covered with box office revenue. Unfortunately, that is very rarely the case and the Development office has to work insanely hard to cover the rest through private donations, grants, and corporate sponsorships.