Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/18/23- Page 3

[B212323]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 2:14am

Voter said: "BossBroadway said: "I'm not wishing for Hadestown to fail, but it's barely profiting. It costs at least 625-650k per week to run. It's had a good and decent run, it's just not making what it needs to to sustain itself after January.

As for SLIH, if it stays over 1 million up until Labor Day and stays over 900k after that, it will continue to run through the holidays. It's not going to close before Labor Day if it is still profiting. The Shuberts are lead producers on this show and will keep it open as long as it's not losing any more money."

I wonder if what truly killed Hadestown's chances of lasting was resigning Eva and Reeve for a long term contract."

It's my reason for not returning to see Lilias (it's more about Reeve than Eva) I know it won't happen now but I'd love to Damon Daunno take over. 

 

[bear88]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 5:02am

PipingHotPiccolo said: "BossBroadway said: Most people seeing Hadestown have already seen the show. "

This is off the charts disconnected from reality, and is leading you to a number of wildly incorrect assumptions. If you want to believe that more than 1% of Hadestown's audience are repeat viewers--let alone repeat viewers who would e repeating more frequently if only Eva/Reeve would move on--be my guest. Some people think the Earth is flat. What can ya do

Of course, as someone who has seen the show twice i would happily go again to see the right Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus team. And i'm hoping the show runs long enough that I get to!

But a rush of sold out performances if, say, Nicholas Barasch replaces Reeve? Lol."

I am not knowledgeable enough to say how many people who see Hadestown now have seen it before. My guess is that the percentage is pretty low. My daughter was one, as she was seeing it for the third time (and the second time on Broadway). Her boyfriend, largely new to theater, had never seen it, just like he hadn’t seen Parade or Sweeney Todd or Chicago.

The problem for Hadestown isn’t that the show doesn’t fill the theater. It’s that tickets are now pretty cheap due to tepid demand. I was just concerned enough about Tony Awards Sunday (with so many new musicals closed) that I helped my daughter choose mezzanine seats in advance for $89 (plus $11 in fees). Fine seats, they reported. No reason to pay more.

[binau]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 7:00am

I must admit, I would have expected higher for Kimberly and I’m surprised that they still seem to have a bit of availability on the day-of right now. No short term concern of course but unless things change I guess it really will be more like a strange loop than I thought. 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 8:30am

This is great. Congrats to Kimberly. 

 

[perfectpenguin]

Posted: 6/21/23 at 8:59am

Bette's Turban said: "perfectpenguin said: "What do you mean by “Lea nights at the booth”?"

I think she means Lea performances being sold at the discount booth."

This makes sense. Thank you!!!