Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/28/24

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: & JULIET (5.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (3.6%), THE NOTEBOOK (3.6%), ILLINOISE (3.4%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (3%), ALADDIN (2.5%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (2.3%), SIX (2.2%), CHICAGO (2%), THE WIZ (1.9%), SUFFS (1.8%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (1.6%), THE GREAT GATSBY (1.5%), THE OUTSIDERS (0.2%), WICKED (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: JOB (-4.9%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (-3%), THE LION KING (-1.2%), HADESTOWN (-0.7%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.6%), HAMILTON (-0.5%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-0.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.2%),

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JOB transferring to Broadway now seems like a mistake unless they get rave reviews on the level that can turn a show's sales around overnight. Yes it's only got 4 actors, but it doesn't cost nothing to run.

NOTEBOOK announcing a new block of tickets through the end of the year seems more "real" to me than when someone like Ken Davenport puts a full year of performances on sale. Kevin McCollum might see a path forward to at least tread water through December, then try to make real money on the road. It's also a way to shut up agents who want to know when their clients are going to get out of work, esp if some of those people have other offers.

This is totally anecdotal but I was speaking to a semi-frequent theatergoer the other day (white woman, late 70s, UES liberal, financially comfortable –– a classic Broadway demographic) and she thought SUFFS was a musical comedy or parody, because of its title. I don't know if that helps or hurts or means nothing, and she might be in the minority, but I found it interesting that that's where at least one person's brain went because of an abbreviation as title.

Updated On: 7/30/24 at 01:02 PM

EDSOSLO858 said: "Big bump over at the Hirschfeld for Tveit.

& Juliet’s weekly running costs are supposedly close to a million at the moment, rumors are flying for a reason and they simply aren’t making enough money right now."

I was shocked when the West End version announced they were closing (I truly thought it'd be more popular!) but with those running costs, I can't imagine running for much longer on just steam alone. Which makes me wonder why they didn't bring in new Juliets, like Hadestown? I would've paid $200 easily to hear Jasmine Fosberg as Juliet

Updated On: 7/30/24 at 01:07 PM

Possibly very dumb question, but I haven't heard anyone actually say the title of the show "JOB" out loud. So is it job, as in "I need to get a job," or Job, as in the name from the Bible? Asking for a friend.

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Which makes me wonder why they didn't bring in new Juliets, like Hadestown? I would've paid $200 easily to hear Jasmine Fosberg as Juliet"

Remember that you are an extreme minority: no meaningful amount of the general public gives a damn about someone on the level of Jasmine Forsberg or Solea Pfeiffer or Maya Boyd.

Every producer has a different strategy about this stuff, but the bottom line is &Juliet probably cannot wait till 2025 to start star-casting. If these are their numbers for summer, they're going to get worse in the fall. "Intentions" and verbal commitments are meaningless until contracts are signed. Celebs (or people who think they're celebs) flirt with shows all the time then don't follow through, for a multitude of reasons.

Why is their running costs so much higher than the other shows?

EDSOSLO858 said: "Joey Fatone has been teasing he will take over for Lance in early ‘25, and the show alsointends tosnag JC Chasez as Shakespeare in the spring andKelly Clarkson to closethe show as Anne a bit later.

They just have to hope their numbers don’t slip too badly after Labor Day weekend."

Kelly Clarkson would be a huge get for them. But her talk show isn’t going anywhere- how could she do both?

Kad said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Joey Fatone has been teasing he will take over for Lance in early ‘25, and the show alsointends tosnag JC Chasez as Shakespeare in the spring andKelly Clarkson to closethe show as Anne a bit later.

They just have to hope their numbers don’t slip too badly after Labor Day weekend."

Kelly Clarkson would be a huge get for them. But her talk show isn’t going anywhere- how could she do both?"

They don’t film most of the summer. Ever wonder why she’s in Paris for the Olympics right now?

Updated On: 7/30/24 at 01:49 PM

Mr. Wormwood said: "chrishuyen said: "It's definitely a play on words, but the playwright has pronounced it as the profession when talking about it.

I'm also curious about the high running costs of & Juliet. I know they have a fairly large cast but is it also the cost of licensing the songs? I would've expected it to be a similar cost to Moulin Rouge and that one has been chugging along fairly well (though of course it has more name recognition and done more stunt casting)."

I may be wrong on this but isn't there a difference in cost between sampling a song as Moulin Rouge does and a full song as & Juliet does?"

There are all sorts of rules and fee scales for amount of a song that's used. In the case of &Juliet, they are certainly paying full royalty for the songs, but with Max Martin so involved, I have to imagine publishing fees could be up for getting cut to lower those costs, but his representation may nix that. It doesn't surprise me that their running costs would be in the $800-$900K given the size of the cast and song usage. I'd imagine Moulin Rouge is in the $1-$1.1M neighborhood weekly.

Two other things to remember about running costs:

1) Running costs can vary week to week and what we're usually discussing is an average approximation of what it will cost each week. Sometimes fees/costs also rise post-recoupment and with inflation, especially when it's almost 2 years into a show's run (as with Juliet). What's in the offering papers aren't always totally accurate.

2) If a show is losing money, the producer can go to all the service providers/creative team/royalty recipients to ask them to waive their fees for X number of weeks, to try to get the show on better track financially and bring the running cost down for a temporary period of time. That could be what is keeping NOTEBOOK afloat right now. If things are really bad sometimes even actors are asked to reduce salary to minimum, if they are earning significantly more than minimum, but that's less common (Bernadette Peters in Gypsy, for example).

Updated On: 7/30/24 at 02:35 PM

Buena vista social club also had an epa so I’m wandering if they will take over the schoenfeld

Chernow moved into the Dakota this spring so those royalties worked out for him.