Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:17pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/5/2016 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: AMERICAN PSYCHO (22.6%), ECLIPSED (7.8%), SHE LOVES ME (5.9%), MATILDA (4.2%), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1.2%), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (0.3%), HAMILTON (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance was: AN ACT OF GOD (-17.5%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-15.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-14.0%), PARAMOUR (-11.4%), CHICAGO (-10.5%), BLACKBIRD (-10.4%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-8.7%), LES MISÉRABLES (-6.7%), ON YOUR FEET! (-6.6%), FUN HOME (-6.4%), BEAUTIFUL (-6.3%), KINKY BOOTS (-6.2%), THE KING AND I (-6.1%), THE FATHER (-4.8%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-3.7%), FULLY COMMITTED (-3.7%), THE CRUCIBLE (-3.5%), WICKED (-3.0%), WAITRESS (-2.9%), THE HUMANS (-2.4%), THE COLOR PURPLE (-2.0%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-1.7%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.4%), BRIGHT STAR (-1.0%), ALADDIN (-1.0%), SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT (-0.9%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-0.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.1%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:24pm
Glad AP went out with some what of a big jump!
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:25pm
How much money are Steve, Edie, and co prepared to lose here, I wonder?
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:28pm
"How much money are Steve, Edie, and co prepared to lose here, I wonder?"
My guess would be another $100k+ this week, and then again for 2 or 3 more weeks after Sunday night's awards show, then a closing notice.
And is it Edie's money being invested, or Paul Simon's? Does Edie have money? I remember buying her New Bohemians album - what? 25? 30 years ago? But has anything else she's done achieved that kind of success since?
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:33pm
Not pretty - this week will be worse sadly-the week before the Tonys is always slow. Now you see why King and I posted its notice. And looks like some others to follow. The marquees this summer will be very dark.
undercoverusher
Understudy Joined: 12/29/15
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:34pm
Almost every show was down this week, big time. The non existant economic recovery is starting to effect Broadway
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:36pm
undercoverusher, that's because last week was a holiday weekend. Numbers are always down the week following a holiday.
LesWickedly, I didn't mention Fun Home because they've already recouped and won Tonys. Bright Star hasn't.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:41pm
I'm worried about The Color Purple. All the added promotion since JHud left isn't doing much for the BO numbers it would seem. To be fair, their net expense probably went down a bit after her departure depending on her salary. Let's hope Tony performance helps!
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:41pm
Fun Home really doesn't look like it'll be around past September.
I really wonder how much time is left for Fiddler, too. Is everyone simply Fiddler-ed out?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
undercoverusher
Understudy Joined: 12/29/15
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:53pm
Maybe Hamilton can expand to 3 to 4 theaters at once !!
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:01pm
Can anyone name a show or shows in recent memory that struggled for a time to find an audience, but eventually became financial success stories? I'm thinking about Bright Star, and I'm wondering if there are any other shows that it can compare to. Has anything done as poorly as Bright Star is doing now and managed to turn things around? Was Gentleman's Guide in as dire straits before they won the Tony?
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:04pm
I believe it was and that Parnes, the very same lead producer, had even prepared to close down its production following the Tony Awards. Someone with actual numbers could probably verify this but to my recollection, yes. It seems comparable. Unfortunately for them, this year is not the same (with the addition of HAMILTON). Oh, well!
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:10pm
neonlightsxo said: "LesWickedly, I didn't mention Fun Home because they've already recouped and won Tonys. Bright Star hasn't.
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I wasn't responding to your comment in the slightest.
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:15pm
An American in Paris took some beating this past week.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:17pm
Oh please please please let Bright Star survive through the July 4th weekend.
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 4:54pm
In light of what a great season this was, I find it particularly sad how many theaters are likely going to be empty this summer....
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:05pm
tja928 said: "Oh please please please let Bright Star survive through the July 4th weekend."
For my own selfish reasons, I echo this. I'm dying to see it and won't be back in the city until July.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:27pm
ChiTheaterFan said: "In light of what a great season this was, I find it particularly sad how many theaters are likely going to be empty this summer...."
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it wasn't a great season on the musical side, which is I gather what you are interested in. That doesn't mean you didn't have a rollicking good time, but the facts are the facts.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:31pm
HogansHero said: "ChiTheaterFan said: "In light of what a great season this was, I find it particularly sad how many theaters are likely going to be empty this summer...."
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it wasn't a great season on the musical side, which is I gather what you are interested in. That doesn't mean you didn't have a rollicking good time, but the facts are the facts.
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ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:49pm
I meant great in terms of high quality shows. (And I'm interested in both plays and musicals.). So many wonderful offerings this year. I didn't mean financially great.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 8:05pm
I know it's to be expected with the audience it brings in, but I'm glad to see School of Rock with such great numbers early on in the summer season. I imagine it will be a pretty good summer for them. I really, really loved the show and have been recommending it to everyone!
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 8:17pm
I think a Tony win for Erivo & a best revival will boost sales for THE COLOR PURPLE. Can't see JERSEY BOYS, KINKY BOOTS or BRIGHT STAR lasting much longer.
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#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 8:25pm
@ChiTheaterFan, even more bad news: I was referring to the quality. Again, no reason you have to agree with me about that.
Up In One
Broadway Star Joined: 5/27/04
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/5/16
Posted: 6/6/16 at 8:39pm
ACL - Jersey Boys has been pulling low numbers since the beginning of 2015, if Kinky Boots follows the same path it would last another year. I would think they both have the same carrying costs. Kinky Boots' numbers are starting to look lilke Jersey Boys from a year ago. But agree I don't see Jersey Boys recent numbers supporting it beyond the summer. There's a lot of traffic waiting in the wings for the fall.
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