Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/7/23

[Rob]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 2:52pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/7/2023 in BroadwayWorld'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 (% 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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[Huss417]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 2:56pm

Yikes at Bad Cinderella.

Appears Some Like it Hot has seen a bump from the Tony Nominations.

Updated On: 5/9/23 at 02:56 PM

[JSquared2]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 2:59pm

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

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

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:00pm

Majority of shows taking a dip this week. BAD CINDERELLA still managing to avoid a closing notice somehow.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:01pm

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.

[pablitonizer]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:03pm

Oh boy that Bad Cinderella's number! it's just getting worse and worse 

Dancin' has improved, most likely people that were rushing to see it before closing right? 

I don't see much future to Life of Pi, could it close in June? 

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:04pm

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. 

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:08pm

Yikes. That is ROUGH for Bad Cinderella. Closing notice by the end of the week?

Definitely some Tony nom bumps for Some Like It Hot, Shucked and NYNY. Even Kimberly mostly held steady in a week where most shows dropped 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:13pm

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

[hache2]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:18pm

Agree Shucked and SLIH +/- NYNY gaining some ground from the nominations. Let's see if it persists into June. Rough times for Bad Cinderella and Life of Pi. 

Too early to tell about Hadestown. It may be just a slow few weeks with attendance down and people wanting to see the shows getting awards/nominations. They just released a block of tickets from Labor Day until mid-November (no clue if that actually means anything).

Updated On: 5/9/23 at 03:18 PM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:19pm

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.

[saxpower]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:21pm

Probably I'm missing something obvious, but how can their be 48 shows in 41 theatres?  I can't think of any shows sharing theatres at the moment. 

[Lumiere2]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:30pm

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]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:33pm

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?

 

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:44pm

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?

"

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]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:45pm

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?

"

Big-name celebs, familiar material, and iconic brand names. 

For the most part, high art wins Tonys, and high entertainment sells more tickets. Rarely do the two intersect these days...

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 3:45pm

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. 

 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 4:08pm

For the most part, high art wins Tonys, and high entertainment sells more tickets. Rarely do the two intersect these days...

Correct. The Academy Awards gave Best Picture to a brilliant but not popular film. Meanwhile, it was Top Gun: Maverick that brought people back to cinemas and made over a billion dollars. 

Updated On: 5/9/23 at 04:08 PM

[DaveyG]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 4:11pm

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. 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 4:52pm

How much money is Shucked, Kimberly and Some Like It Hot willing to invest?

I admire these producers for fighting to save their shows, but at some point we have to remember this is a business. $$$$$$$

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 4:59pm

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!

[JasonC3]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 5:11pm

BETTY22 said: "How much money is Shucked, Kimberly and Some Like It Hot willing to invest?

I admire these producers for fighting to save their shows, but at some point we have to remember this is a business. $$$$$$$"

Doesn't that point usually come shortly after the Tony Awards?

 

[WestEndGal]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 5:37pm

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]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 6:02pm

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

[saxpower]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 6:23pm

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.