Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:18pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/8/2016 in BroadwayWorld.com'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 was: DISASTER! (12.0%), ECLIPSED (10.3%), BRIGHT STAR (6.3%), CHICAGO (2.1%), THE FATHER (2.1%), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1.8%), ON YOUR FEET! (1.7%), SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT (1.6%), THE COLOR PURPLE (1.0%),
Down for the week by attendance was: SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-13.7%), TUCK EVERLASTING (-12.8%), AMERICAN PSYCHO (-11.0%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-10.9%), PARAMOUR (-10.9%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (-10.0%), THE KING AND I (-9.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-8.9%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-8.6%), FULLY COMMITTED (-8.4%), WICKED (-7.3%), BEAUTIFUL (-6.5%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-6.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-4.4%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-4.3%), JERSEY BOYS (-4.1%), BLACKBIRD (-3.6%), THE CRUCIBLE (-3.3%), LES MISÉRABLES (-3.2%), MATILDA (-2.9%), THE HUMANS (-2.9%), FUN HOME (-2.7%), SHE LOVES ME (-1.8%), ALADDIN (-1.6%), THE LION KING (-0.6%), WAITRESS (-0.6%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%),
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:21pm
Really rough week for Tuck, and now the Neverland announcement makes more sense.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:22pm
The question is, how much longer can Tuck Everlasting stay open, and the writing has to be on the wall for Jersey Boys and Kinky Boots.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:24pm
JB and KB? No, they're fine as long as they aren't losing money week to week, and they don't seem to be.
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:24pm
How much longer can Kinky Boots, Tuck, and Jersey Boys have with so many shows wanting to come in?
And I say it every week, but look at The Humans go!
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:27pm
Yay Bright Star!
Updated On: 5/9/16 at 03:27 PM
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:27pm
In the grand tradition of Amazing Grace, Disaster, Honeymoon in Vegas, On the Town, it can stay open until the silly rich people decide to pack their money bags and go home.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:29pm
The Humans is doing great. A continued upward trajectory I hope!
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:30pm
Ooooof Something Rotten 
I hope they pick up sales this summer!!
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 3:36pm
Sad to see Tuck doing so poorly. I saw it yesterday and actually quite enjoyed it.
There were quite a few families there yesterday. I wouldn't be surprised if sales pick up a bit once summer vacation begins. Though it certainly won't magically transform into a hit just because of that.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:11pm
Happy bright star got a pick up from its noms.
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:24pm
It is very sad to see Tuck doing poorly. I do think it's a beautiful looking production and mostly charming with some weaker songs. It's gotten a lot of vitriol that it doesn't deserve. Like JBroadway, I'm not betting on it becoming a hit but I think it has the potential to find an audience. Here's hoping it does.
Also, I'm not a student. Eclipsed isn't filling the theatre that well or bringing in that big of a gross. Are there discounts somewhere that I am not aware of or are they just sticking to their guns?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:29pm
Eclipsed has been on TDF. I saw it through TDF about a month ago. I imagine there are other discounts out there as well.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:30pm
There's an Eclipsed discount on BroadwayBox- I've been meaning to use it at some point.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Updated On: 5/9/16 at 04:30 PM
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:30pm
Both Broadway box and theater mania have had discount codes for eclipsed for awhile. I've gotten several emails.
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:33pm
I agree that if Tuck can hang on until summer vacation it might be ok for a while. I do think that the producers are suddenly ramping up the promotion of the show, which I feel was sorely lacking before it opened. There was no presence in NYC for it (no billboard in Times Square, the theater looked kind of empty from the outside, no tv commercials). When I was at TKTS a few weeks ago, people we're saying they had never even heard of it. But the parents and kids I saw at the show did really seem to like it, so it may have a chance once school is out.
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:44pm
It feels like the bottom has fallen out on Tuck..They can't get any worse, right?
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 4:47pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Happy bright star got a pick up from its noms."
It's a de minimis pickup. It is losing in the vicinity of $200k weekly, a lot to make up and not much to look forward to at the Tonys.
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 5:10pm
HogansHero said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Happy bright star got a pick up from its noms."
It's a de minimis pickup. It is losing in the vicinity of $200k weekly, a lot to make up and not much to look forward to at the Tonys.
"So here we have the sad underside to "Hamilton." All the buzz is Hamilton, even though you cant beg a ticket -- and lots of these other shows, which are perfectly wonderful, cant get noticed. If we think of all the shows that could use a little help at the Tonys -- and then we think about whether they actually will be washed away in the Hami-flood.... another reason why I'm not a producer.
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/8/16
Posted: 5/9/16 at 5:23pm
@Mike66-there might be some truth in that but I'm not so sure there is cause and effect. Bright Star is actually getting quite a bit of attention, in print and on TV. If it is not getting traction, I don't think it is necessarily Hamilton's fault.
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