Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 3:10pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/10/2011 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.
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 3:28pm
Brutal number for Hair's start, but not unexpected since they have been discounting like crazy!
Nice to see Normal Heart close with a bang!
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 3:50pmI remember not too long ago when it was impressive for a show to hit the million dollar mark, now there are a few there that have almost hit 2 mil.
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 4:06pm
BOM, top ticket price $477, YOWZA! What a hit!
I honestly don't think HAIR is going to sell well. It had little to no interest when it closed and they are getting a late start for the summer. They aren't going to make any money off the rabid fans who do lottery. Those were the only people clamoring for a return.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 4:42pm
Wow, what happened to HOW TO SUCEED? Was Daniel Radcliffe not in the show this week for Harry Potter or something?
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 4:44pm^ they went on a brief hiatus so Radcliffe could promote Harry Potter.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 5:02pmIt's unfortunate that "Sister Act" is not having extremley strong grosses. If they drop drastically, then Andrew Llyod Webber might want to bring "The Wizard of Oz" to the Broadway Theatre just like he at the London Palladium.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 5:37pm
Ouch PRISCILLA!
HAIR has been heavily discounted and is on TDF for every performance for the remainder of July into August. Even at those rates, if it sells barely half of the tickets/house...I can see it being gone really quickly.
(The tour is going to lose major money on Broadway if grosses/capacities remain like this).
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 5:41pmWhy did they even bring it back? Everyone who wanted to see it already has--concert and full run in the park, plus a 16-month run on Broadway. And both with far superior casts, overall.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 6:19pm
Hair closed as the audience dried up. No clue why they brought it back.
It is a shame Siter Act is struggling. Waiting for the inevitable discount or TDF appearance for Priscilla . Both had good pedigrees so no reason other than the economy why they are slowing dying.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 7:48pmWith this technically being a stop on the HAIR tour, would it/could it close? Don't they have more stops in the fall? Would the tour suddenly go on a hiatus?
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 7:55pmI believe the tour heads back out to the west coast after this. This was supposed to be their hiatus.
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evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/11/11 at 8:45pmThe NYC stop may be their demise if these grosses continue which I imagine they will....NY audiences don't want to see a tour on Broadway. Foolish move to bring it back.....As someone mentioned, The Cirque show and Spidey are taking away business from other shows and will probably be the cause of their demise as well- Priscilla, Sister, Catch, Addams.....if these shows last the summer, September will not be kind to them.
thismyshow
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/11
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 3:30am^ from hows it been explained the stop was in the budget meaning they arent losing as much as you think.........
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 8:42amYou mean the producers expected to lose a few million and comp most of the tickets? The cast must just love playing to 800 people a night in a 1700 seat theater.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 8:49am
Poor Hair, great show but it made no sense in it coming back.
Well done to Spidey, 3 weeks in a row since opening its had great numbers.
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 9:34amSo happy to see THE NORMAL HEART have such strong grosses in it's final weeks!
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 2:07pmRe: Hair, I gather that it cost less to book a Broadway house for the summer than it would to have put the entire company on hiatus for that long. I don't know the math, but that's the story.
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 6:03pmThat makes no sense- they still have to pay rent (they are probably getting a good deal), stagehands, advertising, etc. Would have been much cheaper to close it for 8 weeks which I believe is allowed for Equity, pay everyone unemployment, then regroup and restart the tour. But I am not producing it so what do I know.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 6:18pmI find the big numbers for Spiderman depressing. If this is what is going to pass for musical theatre in the future, I guess the nail has been driven into the coffin. Very sad.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 8:39pmI'm very glad Hair came back because I didn't get to see it before. It's such an incredible show and I wish it sold better. It was practically empty when I went, and there were people who left at intermission.
LegallyBroadway2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/10
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/12/11 at 9:20pmspider-man is a disgrace. I, for one, would rather have into the woods playing in the foxwoods for the next sixteen years. theatuh.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/13/11 at 2:00amI think people are missing the point in regards to HAIR. I don't think ANYONE assumed the show would be a big, sell-out hit in that theatre. That theatre is HUGE. Maybe in the big budget breakdown they assumed they'd only be selling half of that. I'm sure they got a great deal on the rent, and maybe the cast are still on their tour contracts which means they aren't getting what a normal Broadway Equity minimum would be. I wonder if the tour is putting up cast members who did not have housing in NYC.
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/13/11 at 2:07amI think it's an equity rule that while they are playing in a Broadway theatre, they have Broadway contracts. I'm fairly certain that they dropped their tour contracts for this engagement and got Broadway ones.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/10
Posted: 7/13/11 at 11:54amEh I'm not so sure. It's all pretty crazy these days with the amount of different contracts that can be had. Like Roundabout and Lincoln Center don't run on the same contracts as a show like Wicked would.
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