Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/3/22

[Rob]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 6:55pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/3/2022 in BroadwayWorld'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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: MACBETH (8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (6.3%), AMERICAN BUFFALO (5.2%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (4.8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (3.2%), MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (2.7%), CHICAGO (2.3%), HAMILTON (0.7%), PLAZA SUITE (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: FUNNY GIRL (-10.6%), BEETLEJUICE (-8.1%), COME FROM AWAY (-6%), TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (-3.5%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-3.5%), PARADISE SQUARE (-3.4%), POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM AL (-2.8%), WICKED (-2.1%), SIX (-2.1%), THE MINUTES (-1.9%), HADESTOWN (-1.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.1%), COMPANY (-0.9%), THE LION KING (-0.7%), A STRANGE LOOP (-0.5%), THE MUSIC MAN (-0.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.3%), ALADDIN (-0.2%),

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[ljay889]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 6:59pm

Wow, ITW!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 7:04pm

Really shocked at ITW's numbers. 

[gibsons2]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 7:09pm

MJ just keeps crushing it. No wonder I cannot win a lottery to see it again. Good for them. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 7:57pm

INTO THE WOODS really coming in to grab all that summer cash. Good for them! I can imagine that's going to go all the way up.

(*insert general comment about the mind-boggling staying power of PARADISE SQUARE here*)

[JBroadway]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 8:02pm

Lots of shows down this week. Is 4th of July not a big tourist weekend for the city? I honestly don't actually know, despite having lived here for some years.

Did something happen at Funny Girl (e.g Jane Lynch out?) - or is this the big drop in demand that many people have been anticipating for them?

This is random speculation, but is it possible that the Lea Michele rumors are actually causing people to hold off on buying tickets? I spoke to a friend this weekend (someone who likes theatre, but doesn't pay much attention to the theatre scene) and even they had heard about Lea Michele, and were thinking about getting tickets. I know that's loose, anecdotal evidence, but it does make me wonder.

Since I've been bringing up Macbeth in these threads every week: I think this confirms that they're taking a major tumble right at the finish line. A shame, if you ask me - not because I liked the show, but because I was rooting for at least one more play to recoup this season, and that seemed like the horse to bet on. It seems odd though: it was doing so well for weeks even after the bad reviews and word of mouth. Why did the grosses plummet right at the end? Was that just the time it took for word to travel to general audiences? Maybe so, and maybe that's why Funny Girl plummeted this week too.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 8:04pm

So happy for ITW.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 8:26pm

Fourth of July week/weekend is typically quiet, especially if the weather is good. People aren't in the city, they're at a BBQ, beach, a pool instead.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 9:00pm

Wow Into the Woods and Wow MJ

I'm impressed that Aladdin can just keep cruising along too with huge grosses. I know there was some speculation it was nearing its end both pre-COVID and in the early days back from COVID but it looks to have a lot of juice left.

Dicey weeks for Mr. Saturday Night and especially Funny Girl

[jo]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 9:17pm

Looks like an overall softening of demand ( save for a few) -- could this be the initial impact of the new OPTIONAL MASK policy?  Hopefully, it is temporary.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 10:18pm

jo said: "Looks like an overall softening of demand ( save for a few) -- could this be the initial impact of the new OPTIONAL MASK policy? Hopefully, it is temporary."

it's the nature of July 4th week. New Yorkers flee the city, tourists aren't choosing to travel to a city. We'll see how the numbers look as July and August move on.

I don't think the masks have anything to do with it.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 10:43pm

It’s way too early to speculate about Funny Girl, but a $300k + drop with the full company doing all 8 is reason enough to watch the next month. The show wasn’t a musical that rode out the drop in locals for the holiday. Some are wondering if the advance is drying up; probably too soon. 

[David10086]

Posted: 7/5/22 at 11:16pm

I wonder if ITW pulled audiences away from Funny Girl? Especially those tourists who wanted to see a musical? 

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 12:21am

David10086 said: "I wonder if ITW pulled audiences away from Funny Girl? Especially those tourists who wanted to see a musical?"

I think it's a possibility. 

[bk]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 4:01am

For people being out of the city and not going to the theater, someone can explain how The Music Man pulled in over three million bucks. Certainly, someone was in the city. The average ticket prices on the low grossers is really something. 

[BJR]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 7:21am

The were zero locals here over the weekend. Music Man isn't selling to New Yorkers, for the most part.

[binau]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 7:36am

Has Into the Woods just topped the highest grossing Sondheim week on Broadway ever? I believe the record was previously held by Jake G's Sunday in the Park and then previously held by Bernadette's Follies.

[willrolandsframes]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 11:40am

Where is Michael Riedel when you need him? Have we ever seen a show bleed money this much and continue to stay open? I remember In Transit a few years back was grossing absurdly low for several months after opening then finally gave it up right around Tony noms.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 11:41am

BJR said: "The were zero locals here over the weekend. Music Man isn't selling to New Yorkers, for the most part."

 

You would be wrong (on both counts).

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 11:41am

bk said: "For people being out of the city and not going to the theater, someone can explain how The Music Man pulled in over three million bucks. Certainly, someone was in the city. The average ticket prices on the low grossers is really something."

Because we were all out of town enjoying the holiday elsewhere. Locals are not attracted to this show, only tourists. 

 

Updated On: 7/6/22 at 11:41 AM

[HogansHero]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 11:58am

The generalizations in this thread betray a lack of sophistication that is surprising for people who pretend to follow the theatre. First, while many people do indeed go away from the city for the 4th, the number that stay put still makes NYC the largest city in the country. Most of those people, however, do not go to the theatre on that or any other weekend. Second, tourists are not a singular unified demographic. And tourists who come to NYC for the 4th are the type that bought tickets to see the show Hugh Jackman is in (the name of which is irrelevant) at exorbitant prices, not the type who were pining to see The Minutes. If you are going to generalize, is it too much to ask that you do so with a bit of erudition?

[OhHiii]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 12:55pm

….anyway…

Separate of it being July 4th, Moulin Rouge cannot be happy with that gross. The show must cost around that range to run on a weekly basis. The summer should be prime money making months, so gotta see how that pans out over the coming weeks. Didn’t expect it to be flirting so close to the $1mil mark so soon. 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 1:28pm

I'm not sure it is particularly useful at all to generalize about tourists given that the mix of individuals who fall under that classification at any time don't necessarily have one unified interest in theater.

[Hairspray0901]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 1:38pm

OhHiii said: "….anyway…

Separate of it being July 4th, Moulin Rouge cannot be happy with that gross. The show must cost around that range to run on a weekly basis. The summer should be prime money making months, so gotta see how that pans out over the coming weeks. Didn’t expect it to be flirting so close to the $1mil mark so soon."

MR has been running since July 2019. Their Tony winners left earlier this year; I think they’re doing pretty well considering those two points. Over a million is still very impressive. 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/6/22 at 1:56pm

Hairspray0901 said: "MR has been running since July 2019. Their Tony winners left earlier this year; I think they’re doing pretty well considering those two points. Over a million is still very impressive."

But remember there's a chunk of about 18 months where they weren't running, plus several cancellations due to Covid since then. I remember back in the day reading that Rock of Ages had a pretty highly inflated running cost due to the royalties for all of the songs they used, and, if I'm not mistaken, Moulin Rouge has an even larger number of catalog songs being used.