Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/7/23 — Page 2

Sutton Ross said: "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."

I see your point but Everything Everywhere All At Once was made for $14m and made $140m...so I'd say it was both - high art and hight entertainment.

I agree that most people didn't know NPH extended an extra week for Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Heck a week ago I thought NPH's last day was end of April.

I'm surprised by Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window having avg ticket price of $60 (second lowest avg ticket price this week after Bad Cinderella.)I recall it was such a hard ticket to get when it was at BAM and only tix left were over $250.

I found it fascinating that NYNY grossed more than &Juliet. I wonder how much LMM is helping this at the box office, which a poster questioned last week.
Not like NYNY is doing spectacularly, just really surprised, since &Juliet has not been opened for that long and seemed to be doing the best of the new musicals.

I see your point but Everything Everywhere All At Once was made for $14m and made $140m...so I'd say it was both - high art and high entertainment."

Yeah...if you had bothered to do anything other than skim Wikipedia and did some actual research, you would have found out that Everything Everywhere All at Once profited 32 million dollars after everything was all said and done. Top Gun: Maverick finally brought people back to the movie theaters after more than two years and did something that most movies never could achieve. It also has profited 391 million dollars so far. Comparing the two is ridiculous so nope, you clearly missed my point.

Average ticket price and % sold are far more telling than the Gross.
NYNY has the capacity to sell 5,000+ more tickets every week than & Juliet, and this week outgrossed them by $12,000. & Juliet is consistently selling at or above 95% compared to NYNY’s 83% this past week, with higher ticket prices.

Looks like the usual fan favorites continue to hold strong (Hamilton, MJ, Moulin Rouge, Disney Theatrical) and Prima Facie, Sweeney, & Juliet, and Parade are the hits of the season. Shucked continues its slow climb upward via the avalanche of marketing and good word of mouth, while the touristy faves (Hadestown, Six, BOM, Wicked, and HP) stumble a little as the city slows before the summer surge.

Some of the newer plays have an uphill battle ahead of them: Sidney Brustein sold out at the BAM, but only ran there for just under 3 weeks, and has a different audience to entertain for Broadway's 10 weeks. This seems like a show that would certainly benefit from a Tony Revival win. Peter Pan Goes Wrong needs to keep cycling in guest stars if they want to maintain any sort of momentum. A 14% attendance drop is telling that NPH was a massive draw, and yet they did not advertise his extension well at all. Life of Pi should probably plan a closing date around Labor Day as they're doing ok, but not great; certainly not well enough to sustain themselves past the next few months. Good Night Oscar really needs to lower their pricing or start putting out discount options. It's hardly doing well enough to justify gatekeeping their ticket prices that high.

Here's hoping SLIH can make the most off their MANY award nominations, Tony and otherwise. Seems they got a small bump this week, but next week or two will be the real tell. Glad to see people making their way to Dancin' before its close.

Bad Cinderella. Wow....that's brutal, but I'm truly not surprised at this point. Someone not long ago said we should expect to hear a closing announcement for end of June, and with those numbers/avg ticket price/capacity? I wouldn't be shocked if it gets announced in a week's time.

Sutton Ross said: "I see your point but Everything Everywhere All At Once was made for $14m and made $140m...so I'd say it was both - high art and high entertainment."

Yeah...if you had bothered to do anything other than skim Wikipedia and did some actual research, you would have found out that Everything Everywhere All at Once profited 32 million dollars after everything was all said and done. Top Gun: Maverick finally brought people back to the movie theaters after more than two years and did something that most movies never could achieve. It also has profited 391 million dollars so far. Comparing the two is ridiculous so nope, you clearly missed my point."

So... $40m in profits and winning an Oscar is ****, huh? Like no one would want that. Got it. Just sayin that's not a great example as they both made bank for their respective producers. You actually CAN have high art and high entertainment. Fun Home, Hamilton, Next to Normal, etc. It actually does happen and we can strive for it.

Updated On: 5/10/23 at 10:34 AM

I loved it. So each their own. That's art. And it made money, so it is by all accounts a hit. But by all means keep dissing it.

I've never understood why people can't get that two things can be true: both were massive hits. Both were successes both artistically and financially. I mean, Top Gun getting nominated for Best Picture is a huge accomplishment. Why do we have to diminish one to support the other? Dumb.

trpguyy said: "Average ticket price and % sold are far more telling than the Gross.
NYNY has the capacity to sell 5,000+ more tickets every week than & Juliet, and this week outgrossed them by $12,000. & Juliet is consistently selling at or above 95% compared to NYNY’s 83% this past week, with higher ticket prices."

I agree with that; nevertheless, I am still surprised. In a season which has not had a NEW runaway hit musical, &Juliet has still been the most consistent grosser (although Beautiful Noise seems to be having a second wind), to see NYNY exceed it despite recent pretty bad reviews is still somewhat impressive. Only time will tell whether it can sustain or improve its current grosses for more than a limited number of weeks (I bet it won’t).

Honestly, even if Kimberly Akimbo wins the 8 categories it is nominated on I don't see it as the kind of show to even surpass 1 million weekly grosses, but as with Spring Awakening I hope that doesn't mean it won't become a runaway hit.