Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15- Page 2
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 5:57pm
I'd be curious to know if any of our more box office savvy friends could address how the reporting of the grosses and "Top Ticket" figures have changed with the introduction of Dynamic Pricing techniques and if that is in fact the highest price of the given week or whether it is a claimed highest price but subject to circumstantial variation like Premium pricing. Different shows take dynamic pricing to different extents...
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#26Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:12pm
nooo phantom needs to stay. Chicago and Jersey Boys on the other hand...
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#27Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:17pm
Philly, I do not want to burst your bubble but Amazing Grace will not make it. It may run awhile but will suffer the same fate as Dr Zhivago.
Chicago & Jersey - either one - will outlast Amazing.
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actorsnonactors
Chorus Member Joined: 12/20/12
#28Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:18pm
"they're making more money every week"
...but their top ticket / average ticket is still pathetically low. I don't know their operating budget, but they need a miracle.
nycgogetter
Understudy Joined: 3/17/15
#29Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:28pm
"Continually impressed with how steady Finding Neverland has been, this is it's 18 straight week of 1M + plus gross and only week has fallen below 90% attendance."
Rumors are the producers are buying tickets to inflate grosses . . .
#30Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:39pm
"Are you Zell's stalker that I have heard about?"
Sure! I've seen him in person once, met him once and I've seen Fun Home once so if that's considered stalkerish I guess I'm his stalker!
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GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#31Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:44pm
""Continually impressed with how steady Finding Neverland has been, this is it's 18 straight week of 1M + plus gross and only week has fallen below 90% attendance."
Rumors are the producers are buying tickets to inflate grosses . . . "
Those rumors are so last month.
#32Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:46pm
Why is Fun Home's playbill black and white?
#33Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:46pm
"they're making more money every week"
No, they are losing less money each week. If the are sane, the closing notice goes up tomorrow afternoon. If not, then I am sure they can keep going until the fall show wants the theatre.Those are the only two options.
re top prices-what is shown on the data are the top prices for the frame. You are looking at a ticket for a later week, when the prices are higher. Expect them to head up near Mormon post opening.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#34Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:47pm
Sorry for the double post, but to weigh in on the top ticket price debate: it was under my impression that premiums are recognized as a ticket price, but are not considered when talking about gross potential, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.
AKarp2013
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/11
#35Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 6:53pm
According to this recent Billboard article, the producers of Amazing Grace really seem to have faith in it.
They have a tour, a cast album and a movie all in the works...
Updated On: 7/20/15 at 06:53 PM#36Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:00pm
No greased. If you do the math, the gross potential for, say, Mormon, reflects the face value (including premium). Were it otherwise, the gross % would be way more than 106% since a large chunk of the tickets are premium, topping at $475, whereas the "standard" price is just over 1/3 of that.
#37Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:00pm
"Why is Fun Home's playbill black and white?"
Probably because they cost less than the colored ones. I was so upset when I got mine though. They are so underwhelming compared to the colored
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#38Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:04pm
It is pretty standard for shows to flip to B&W after the opening night run.
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#39Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:23pm
^ no its not, thats a trend that started in the last few years.
#40Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:30pm
"^ no its not, thats a trend that started in the last few years."
I agree it started perhaps 10-15 years ago, but it has pretty standard for quite a while now. Since we live in the present and not the past, it is totally correct to say what I said. Playbills are also produced digitally nowadays, whereas in the past they were created on letterpress.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#41Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 7:57pm
Re: the Hamilton top ticket price, is it possible that when tickets went on sale (the tickets for the first week of performances), that $275 WAS the top ticket price, and they have since raised it? Otherwise it's just an error, like Something Rotten potential grosses were (and perhaps still are.) It happens
#42Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 9:49pm
yes, neon, that's what I am saying. You have to remember that when tickets first went on sale they were flying out of the box office. If I remember correctly they sold like $7mil almost immediately so it is reasonable to think that the first week or more was sold out before they even caught their breath and then at some point they decided to raise the prices, at least at the top end. It would not surprise me if we see another big jump after the opening.
#43Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 10:04pm
"I wonder what caused the bump in attendance for A Gentleman's Guide... Almost everyone's numbers went up but their jump seems more significant."
We've heard a ton of Gentleman's Guide Ads on 880 AM radio lately--which were a little amusing at first, now annoying they are so frequent. (my husband who hasn't seen the show thought the commercials were funnier than I did) They just call it Gentleman's Guide and don't mention the 'love and murder' part, but they have obviously spent some money on advertising recently. Not sure that's the reason for the bump, but just a thought.
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#44Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 10:56pm
"They just call it Gentleman's Guide and don't mention the 'love and murder' part, but they have obviously spent some money on advertising recently. Not sure that's the reason for the bump, but just a thought."
I've seen a ton of those commercials selling it as a Tony winner but then again On the Town had a big ad push and I don't think it helped sales much.
#45Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:34pm
Mamma Mia $900k and is still closing. Wow.
Any chance it is moving to a new theater instead of closing?
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GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#47Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:44pm
Mamma Mia must have had really bad numbers in the low months to be closing, especially since they do amazing over the summer
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#48Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:53pm
I think we are seeing the pre-closing bounce right now.
#49Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/19/15
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:59pm
Looking at its numbers. It has had pretty good numbers with the exception of February when everyone struggled.
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