Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/2/19

[Rob]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:08pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/2/2019 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 was: HILLARY AND CLINTON (3.9%), WICKED (2.4%), MEAN GIRLS (1.2%), HAMILTON (0.2%), HADESTOWN (0.1%), NETWORK (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (-21.5%), CHICAGO (-13.9%), BURN THIS (-10.6%), THE CHER SHOW (-10.4%), BE MORE CHILL (-10.2%), WAITRESS (-9.2%), MY FAIR LADY (-8.8%), INK (-8.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-6.8%), BEETLEJUICE (-6.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-6.1%), THE FERRYMAN (-5.8%), KING LEAR (-4.6%), KISS ME, KATE (-4.3%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (-4.1%), ALL MY SONS (-4.1%), TOOTSIE (-3.4%), GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS (-2.5%), WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (-2.3%), FROZEN (-1.8%), THE PROM (-1.4%), OKLAHOMA! (-1.2%), KING KONG (-1.1%), COME FROM AWAY (-1.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.5%), THE LION KING (-0.5%), ALADDIN (-0.5%), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (-0.3%), AIN'T TOO PROUD (-0.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.1%),

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[Kitsune]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:14pm

A pretty lousy week across the board - was it the bad weather? 

(Edited to add: Obviously shows like Ain't Too Proud and Hadestown are doing just fine, but there are very few shows that are NOT down from the previous week)

Updated On: 6/3/19 at 03:14 PM

[BritCrit]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:15pm

A bad week for any production not called Wicked or Network. It is really crushing to see Frankie and Johnny drop to such low attendance despite those solid reviews. Hadestown and Ain't Too Proud are holding steady, but Tootsie has fallen out of the Top 10, and Be More Chill fell below 50% of its potential...

[HogansHero]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:37pm

BritCrit said: "A bad week for any production not called Wicked or Network..."

What in the world are you looking at?

Unrelated random observation: Rudin spent more money on ads for his Tony nominated plays this week than they grossed collectively.

[Wick3]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:40pm

Kitsune said: "A pretty lousy week across the board - was it the bad weather?

(Edited to add: Obviously shows like Ain't Too Proud and Hadestown are doing just fine, but there are very few shows that are NOT down from the previous week)"

Remember the week before was Memorial Day weekend and that always tends to be busy for Broadway. 

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:59pm

Gary will be closing June 23rd

[bdn223]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 3:59pm

It was pretty much a typical post holiday week across the board. I do wonder though how the terrible weather on Wednesday and Thursday affected the new musicals and the bridge and Tunnel long runners. I had tickets to Beetlejuice on Thursday and honestly debating eating the tickets because of the weather.

It should also be noted that half of the typical bridge and tunnel crowd didn’t buy tickets this past weekend due to the Long Island railroad having extremely limited service that doubled and tripled the travel time of most commuters due to a bridge replacement.

With all that taken into account, I’d say the week wasn’t as bad as it could of been.

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 4:07pm

3 plays from Rudin doing really BAD business, geez

[goldenstate5]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 4:17pm

Either BMC shapes up in the next couple of weeks or it'll be closing shop by Labor Day.

Everything except the predictable (Mockingbird/Hamilton/Hadestown/ATP) is just not doing so hot. Woof.

[evic]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 4:17pm

I don't think that the bad weather had anything to do with the low grosses. This season did not produced one must see musical, there are many long run shows and a lot of shows that people don't want to shell out the big bucks for. Tourism is down about 6% so far this year which may not seem like a lot but could be a factor. It is obvious why Rudin is pulling the plug early on Glenda. Look for a slew of closing notices after the Tonys. 

[InTheBathroom1]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 4:30pm

evic said: “This season did not produced one must see musical”

This statement is just plain false, Hadestown and Ain’t Too Proud are both doing exceptional business. 

[BritCrit]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 4:54pm

InTheBathroom1 said: "evic said: “This season did not produced one must see musical”

This statement is just plain false, Hadestown and Ain’t Too Proud are both doing exceptional business."

 

 

That's true, but the fact that people are forgetting about them is not a good sign. I expect that Hadestown and Ain't Too Proud will be the only 2018-19 musicals still around this time next year, but I doubt they will be long runners. Whether or not Tootsie joins them depends on if it can stabilise its recent sharp decline - If it holds at a million into autumn, it will survive, but if it drops to the level of Pretty Woman over the next few weeks, that will be a real problem. Tootsie seems like a victim of too much hype - it's $1.5 million was unlikely to hold very long, and I always thought it was hasty to rush into licensing and international rollout so quickly. The limitations of Tootsie  (The lack of iconic songs, the problems with the source material, the generation gap between fans of the film and fans of Santino Fontana) were always going to drag it down to some extent, and its performance over the next few months will be a big test...

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 5:25pm

Who is forgetting Hadestown? It's a huge, buzzing hit. I think it could last quite some time.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 5:34pm

I think it is also just the time of year. Proms have and are happening and it is graduation time also. 

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 6/3/19 at 6:12pm

Kitsune said: "A pretty lousy week across the board - was it the bad weather?

Possibly. The rain was horrendous. But I saw a show on Thursday and I can't speak for the mezz but the orchestra was as full as you'd expect so I think people who had tickets made it. I'd guess that the shows that were hurt were ones that particularly rely on same day ticket sales. 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 1:25am

LightsOut90 said: "Gary will be closing June 23rd"

Do you know that or are you just opining.  I am hoping that you are correct, because I have friends who paid full price to see the show in July, and -- having seen it -- I am positive they will hate it.  If it closes, they won't have to see it.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 2:01am

yeah its a done deal its just a matter of if the announcement coming down.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 8:50am

"Tourism is down about 6% so far this year which may not seem like a lot but could be a factor."

Just curious if that means tourism is down for NYC in general or for tourists buying Broadway tickets.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 9:26am

Wow, those numbers for King Lear are pretty bad no matter how you slice it, but they are especially disastrous when you consider the weekly cost of the labor. Isn’t it true that shows over 3 hours have to pay their crew overtime? That, plus it’s a large cast full of stage veterans who are likely making well above minimum. We have a whopping SEVEN actors above the title, at least 3 of whom can probably be considered a “name” to a greater or lesser extent.

[Wick3]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 9:33am

yes you have to pay the crew overtime. I think right now on Broadway, King Lear & Ferryman pay their stage and house crew overtime since both plays are over 3 hours.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 11:52am

I'm pretty sure "overtime" means after 11:PM, that's why those shows start an hour earlier.

 

[rg7759]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 12:39pm

BritCrit said: "A bad week for any production not called Wicked or Network. It is really crushing to see Frankie and Johnny drop to such low attendance despite those solid reviews. Hadestown and Ain't Too Proud are holding steady, but Tootsie has fallen out of the Top 10, and Be More Chill fell below 50% of its potential..."

U mean the reviews that said the play is not good?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 12:51pm

Is Gary really doing that poorly? 

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 6/4/19 at 12:59pm

RippedMan said: "Is Gary really doing that poorly?"

Considering it made 23% of its gross potential and was the lowest-grossing show on Broadway last week, YES, that's very poor business. Nathan Lane & George Wolfe & co don't work for minimum, and it has a whole (spoiler??) ensemble. It's got to cost between 400-500 per week to run, + the capitalization couldn't have been cheap with those designs.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 6/9/19 at 1:50pm

goldenstate5 said: "Either BMC shapes up in the next couple of weeks or it'll be closing shop by Labor Day.

Everything except the predictable (Mockingbird/Hamilton/Hadestown/ATP) is just not doing so hot. Woof."

 

BMC still had lots of seats for the matinee today only around 60% sold and the same for the week moving forward tons of seat avail for all shows...not looking good. I don't see it lasting after summer!