Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/24/22

Company's highest gross to date. So glad this production is going out on such a high. Can't wait for the final performance.

I wouldn’t say ASL is “looking soft” at all.

It’s selling 89% of its seats in one of the smallest houses on Broadway and sitting on a comfortable $750K gross. One of the benefits of this show is the dynamic seating prices where the obstructed view seats are actually cheaper, and it’s getting people into the theatre to see a show they may not otherwise go see at a three-digit price point. They are likely surpassing their weekly nut.

If anything is looking really shaky, it’s FUNNY GIRL. It’s already limping to the end of Beanie’s run, so I can’t imagine how much they will lose when Julie is on for five weeks (which is sad because she’s great). I know the producers there are gonna gamble the losses with the hope that Lea Michele will rebound them in the fall, but we shall see how that goes

For a recent best musical winner I would agree ASL is looking soft. Hopefully they can last long enough to turn a profit but it doesn’t look like the momentum will be there to have a very long run (also recognise it’s rather premature to call this now, but I’ll call it)

ASL was always going to be appealing to a niche audience. 750k is a totally solid gross for that show if they can sustain it, assuming it costs 500-600k to run per week. Does that mean it will recoup 100%? Too early to say. It cost up to $9.5M, which is pretty standard for a small musical. But this was always a major gamble from the start.

I think that the lede has been buried a bit this week cause I think the most surprising number is the almost $900,000 grossed by DEH. Sure, it announced a Sept 18 closing but so what? Other shows that have announced closings that a more imminent didn't show this type of uptick.

DEH out grossed Funny Girl and Hadestown for goodness sake.

I really think that the film hurt the show tremendously, both on Broadway and on tour.

quizking101 said: "I wouldn’t say ASL is “looking soft” at all.

It’s selling 89% of its seats in one of the smallest houses on Broadway and sitting on a comfortable $750K gross. One of the benefits of this show is the dynamic seating prices where the obstructed view seats are actually cheaper, and it’s getting people into the theatre to see a show they may not otherwise go see at a three-digit price point. They are likely surpassing their weekly nut.

If anything is looking really shaky, it’s FUNNY GIRL. It’s already limping to the end of Beanie’s run, so I can’t imagine how much they will lose when Julie is on for five weeks (which is sad because she’s great). I know the producers there are gonna gamble the losses with the hope that Lea Michele will rebound them in the fall, but we shall see how that goes"

89% less than two months after a Tony win for Best Musical does indeed seem soft to me. As does the slight but mostly steady declines since it's peak of $860K at the end of June.

True. I guess it's just good timing and a good ensemble cast? I mean, there's nothing to note about the production other than the cast, correct? So that's good for them moving forward.

I mean, A Strange Loop was always going to be a hard sell, so the fact that it's making money is still promising.

So now that our usual targets for 2022 have either closed, or announced a closing - "Tina", "POTUS", "Paradise Square", "Girl From the North Country", "DEH', "CFA", "Company" - I guess it's fair to say our new target is A STRANGE LOOP , as we ask the inevitable : 'how long can this show keep running' ?

Nice bump for The Minutes in its final week as well

David10086 said: "So now that our usual targets for 2022 have either closed, or announced a closing - "Tina", "POTUS", "Paradise Square", "Girl From the North Country", "DEH', "CFA", "Company" - I guess it's fair to say our new target is A STRANGE LOOP , as we ask the inevitable : 'how long can this show keep running

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Nobody is “making a target.” We are discussing the grosses, comparing the numbers to other recent Tony Award winners. It is a thread for grosses where we, ya know, discuss grosses.

I think we all knew ASL wouldn't last more than ''Fun Home'' or ''The Band's Visit'', both of these shows lasted something like one year and five months, that would put ''ASL'' to last, at least, around September 2023, but I'm praying it will be here until the next Tonys, it surely will be difficult. Does the show cost that much to run, tho? A 600k nut for a small house like that doesn't feel right.

Also, is safe to assume ''Hadestown'' has recouped yet?

A question: by August 14, I guess, there will only be 2 plays on Broadway. Is this some kind of record or is a usual thing that I never notice in the august months?