Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/7/23

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: BOB FOSSE'S DANCIN' (18.8%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (4.4%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2.6%), LEOPOLDSTADT (2%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (1.7%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.8%), SHUCKED (0.7%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: GREY HOUSE (-19.5%), CHICAGO (-15.6%), THE THANKSGIVING PLAY (-14.9%), PETER PAN GOES WRONG (-14.1%), NEW YORK, NEW YORK (-12.7%), BAD CINDERELLA (-11.4%), GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR (-11%), WICKED (-8.6%), THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW (-7.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-7.7%), SIX (-6.7%), FUNNY GIRL (-6.6%), THE LION KING (-5.8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-5.3%), LIFE OF PI (-5.2%), ALADDIN (-4.4%), PARADE (-4.3%), CAMELOT (-3.6%), SUMMER, 1976 (-3.5%), A DOLL'S HOUSE (-3.2%), HADESTOWN (-2.6%), PRIMA FACIE (-2.4%), FAT HAM (-1.6%), & JULIET (-0.3%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.2%),

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Nice bumps for SOME LIKE IT HOT and SHUCKED (and DANCIN) !

Updated On: 5/9/23 at 02:59 PM

Week 1 of Tony noms gave a giant boost to SOME LIKE IT HOT ($115K), and solid boosts to SHUCKED ($69K), GOOD NIGHT OSCAR ($62K), and SWEENEY ($43K). NYNY and SUMMER OF 1976's ~75K rises have an asterisk, since the previous weeks they had comped openings + press.

All the other nominated shows' numbers went down, so we can assume they would have gone down even more with no noms.

Also a nice pre-closing bump of $96K for DANCIN.

$326K would be a bad number for most plays, let alone a musical as massive as BAD CINDERELLA.

I mean, good for Some Like It Hot, but I still think the Tonys have less and less influence on the box office every year.

SIX and Hadestown are starting to cool off.

Massive drop for Peter Pan Goes Wrong, even with NPH.

I should know this answer, but how much should we blame the weather when you get the first really nice weekend of the spring? Obviously "people will see a hit in any weather" blablablabla, but I can't imagine a lot of casual buyers were looking to spend last weekend inside, and the week leading up to it + previous weekend was miserably rainy several days.

School vacations are over and summer tourism won't start for another week or two. But a lot of these shows can't afford a drop (Kimberly, Leopoldstadt, Fat Ham, etc).

Updated On: 5/9/23 at 03:13 PM

Delightfully surprised sweeney was still able to see a bump despite Groban being out for a performance. I wonder if that a testament to the show being the star and not him, specifically.

HOW is Bad Cinderella still running?

These numbers were bad, now worse, and trending to terrible. There's no way this is making any money. Worse still...what hope are these producers holding on to that sales are going to improve?

1. They slid 11.4% in attendance in one week? And now they're playing to just above 50% capacity.

2. The average ticket price is a mere $53?! That's disappointing for any show - let alone a musical. (And a high-budget, "blockbuster" musical at that.) That's less than half of Broadway's current average ticket price at $117. And they can't even get to half of that. Take the plays out of those averages and the disparity gets hilariously worse.

3. This week's total gross was only $326,000?!?! MY GOD for a show in a 1,400 seat theatre that's almost insulting.

Look I'm sure there are people enjoying the performance, and I'm glad these artists are being employed. I sincerely believe the audience can find better entertainment and the artists a better job at one of the other 40 Broadway theatres.

Close the show. Put this show out of its misery.

pethian said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "I mean, good forSome Like It Hot, but I still think the Tonys have less and less influence on the box office every year."



It sure seems that way. And I hear people say reviews mean less and less, and quote ads don't work anymore, and print advertising is less effective if at all....and so on. So what DOES have influence in this emerging new normal?

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Stars, word of mouth, and luck.

See Parade: Ben Platt, STELLAR word of mouth, got protested by Nazis and got SOOOOO much free press because of it (it's so awful, but true).

EDSOSLO858 said: "SIX and Hadestown are starting to cool off."

I think you need more than just a couple weeks of data to accurately claim this.

JSquared2 said: "Nice bumps for SOME LIKE IT HOT and SHUCKED"

But both shows still probably lost money. I wonder if either will make it past Labor Day.

I'm hoping Kimberly Akimbo continues to do well. Hopefully, once they win big honors at the Tonys, people will pack the Booth theatre like there is no tomorrow!

So many shows with an average ticket price under $100 - gotta be worrying for the shows themselves, but also the industry as a whole.

charlie525600 said: "For the person who asked "How can there be 48 shows in 41 theatres". There were 34 Broadway shows running last week."

Broadway World's data originally said 48 shows were running (despite listing 34 shows). They have since dorrected it.