Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:58pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/19/2009 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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:00pm
Yay for Hair and Rock of Ages!!!
Oooof 9 to 5
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:03pm
Ack 9 to 5. Just keeps fading and fading...
Ah well. I, for one, am looking forward to it closing so it can be revived years from now with a much better book.
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:03pmOuch for 9 to 5. Will be gone by January.
camncal
Stand-by Joined: 12/20/07
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:05pmit's strange they want to close Mermaid. it's doing very well. i thought they would at least want to go through the show till Jan.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:06pm
I honestly never in a million years would have thought that 9 TO 5 would be falling off the charts the way it is. I thought it was going to be a huge smash. Wow.
At any rate, I'm really happy for SHREK. I didn't particularly love the show, but I love the cast, and it looks like the summer months are giving it the push it's been waiting for. And go HAIR!
And, honestly, bravo to WICKED. Over five years later and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down any time soon. 
Updated On: 7/20/09 at 03:06 PM
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:06pm
Glad to see In The Heights increases their grosses. I don't know how the attendance is that low. I went on a Wednesday night and there was only one empty seat in the Orchestra.
9 to 5 is going to see the end of it's run by the end of the summer.
Leia947
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/09
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:07pmIt's nice to see that 16 of the 23 current shows are at 90% or higher.
"Even I think that's hot, and I'm a straight guy. If I ever become gay he is the reason." - Drunk Chita Rivera on Gavin Creel
"Leia947 is my theatre mamma, and I love her for it." - AndAllThatJazz22
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:15pmPretty sad to think that during the summer there will only be 1 play on Broadway - The 39 Steps. Would have loved to see a Play on Broadway but have already seen 39 steps in London. Less than 20 shows will be running when I come over, shame everything is waiting for the fall.
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:18pm
"Ouch for 9 to 5. Will be gone by January."
As long as it makes it to August 21st I'll be ok. That's when I'm seeing it. lol.
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:24pm
Out of 9 to 5, Shrek & Rock of Ages; it looks like 9 to 5 will likely be the first to go.
And Hair was so close to out grossing Jersey Boys. Almost!
#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:26pmThats sad, I really don't like Rock of Ages.
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:29pm9 to 5 will be gone by September at this rate.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:29pm
I always thought 9 TO 5 was destined to be a smash hit.
The lack of Tony attention (and truly bad reviews) really seemed to have taken a toll on the show.
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:31pmI remember a year ago everyone thought it was going to win everything at the tony's.
#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:31pmThat happens every year. One summer everyone predicted BROOKLYN would be the big Tony hit..... um....
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:34pm
It's really too bad.
Maybe Dolly should join the cast.. either as Doralee or Roz. That'd give the show a boost.
Just a thought.
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:34pm
"The lack of Tony attention (and truly bad reviews) really seemed to have taken a toll on the show."
Coupled with the fact that it really is not a good show.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:37pmI don't think the show is awful. It's got a fun and catchy score, despite a few pedestrian songs. It's also got a solid cast, filled with comedic gems. The set is incredible and should have been a lock for the Tony. The choreography is fun and energetic, if not a tad bit overdone. I'd say it's better than LEGALLY BLONDE and possibly even MAMMA MIA.
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:38pm
Brooklyn has one good song...i think?
And I havn't seen 9 to 5 yet, but I'm sure the book could have been better. To be honest, I'm just seeing it for Megan Hilty. If it lasts that long 
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:40pm
BROOKLYN has a few good songs.
"Once Upon a Time", "Raven", "Not a Sound", "I Never Knew His Name" and "Heart Behind These Hands" are all quite lovely.
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:51pmLegally Blonde is by no means brilliant theater, but it's leaps and bounds better than 9 to 5, mainly because Legally Blonde was helmed by Jerry Mitchell, not Joe Mantello. The score to Legally Blonde, again, while nowhere near brilliant, is exponentially better than 9 to 5's.
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:56pm^ That is false. The score of Legally Blonde has some MAJOR clunkers while 9 to 5 has a really solid score all around (with the exception of Let Love Grow). I have one word...IRELAND!
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:58pm
I have to disagree. I thought 9 TO 5 was much better than LEGALLY BLONDE.
LEGALLY BLONDE was fun and mindless but its book was pretty bad, its score was enjoyable but cloying and irritating about 90% of the time, and LBB just didn't have the star power to carry the show. I enjoyed it much more when Bailey was in it, acutally.
9 TO 5 is mindless fun and has a pretty terrible book but the score is much better than LB's and the three lead female performers all exude "star" quality and carry the show effortlessly.
That said, I don't think anyone left BKLYN thinking it would be the next big thing. I left the first preview of 9 TO 5 thinking it would be a total tourist trap and that it would be a smash. I knew it would run into problems with the critics because it's by no means a great show but I thought it was really entertaining, tons of fun, and I had heard only great things from everyone I knew who saw it. BKLYN was just a mess on so many different levels.
The predictions of BKLYN being a huge Tony hit were blind predictions from people who hadn't seen the show yet, as were those who thought 9 TO 5 was a shoo-in to win Best Musical. You can't predict the artistic integrity of something (which one would hope has something to do with the Tony Awards) before you see it.
Updated On: 7/20/09 at 03:58 PM
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19
Posted: 7/20/09 at 4:09pmI didn't like Legally Blonde at all, but thought it was much more tolerable than 9 to 5, which should have been so much better than it is. Except for the title song, which was an established hit already, the score to 9 to 5 is boring. I disagree about the 3 female leads: Allison can't sing, Stephanie can't act, and Megan is doing Dolly. 9 to 5 is the best example to save your money and rent the movie, which in this case is leaps and bounds better than the musical.
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