Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/30/23

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: GREY HOUSE (18.9%), NEW YORK, NEW YORK (16.1%), FUNNY GIRL (13.2%), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (4.3%), GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR (4.1%), CHICAGO (3.7%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (1.9%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (1.5%), SIX (1.4%), WICKED (0.9%), & JULIET (0.8%), ALADDIN (0.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.6%), PARADE (0.5%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE COTTAGE (-19.6%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (-7.4%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (-3.4%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-3.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-1.8%), SHUCKED (-1.7%), JUST FOR US (-1.5%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-1.2%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-1%), HERE LIES LOVE (-0.6%), HADESTOWN (-0.3%), THE LION KING (-0.2%),

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Good Night Oscar staying strong and Kimberly Akimbo chugging along, steady and sure.

The Lion King... just wow!

My guess the extreme heat kept some people away from the theatre. But this week's grosses do provide some insights.

This past week, Back to the Future held a gala night which was most definitely highly comped. Plus I'm sure the critics have been in attendance at a number of these performances. Still strong numbers and I anticipate the show to stay in the million-dollar club throughout the summer, possibly lag slightly in the fall, then pick right back up for a juggernaut holiday season.

At this point, both A Beautiful Noise and Once Upon a One More Time are going to have to make a call. I could see ABN making a run to try their new fall schedule but I don't see it lasting past New Years.

I think there is a decent chance of both Shucked and Some Like It Hot making it to the end of the year but SLIH is the one teetering the most on the chances of closing before the year is out. Both these shows were my favorites of the past season and I really hope they can keep it going just a little longer.

Updated On: 8/1/23 at 01:46 PM

That's incredible for Parade! A surprisingly big bump for Grey House for its final week. Here Lies Love is trending in the right direction too.

On the flip side, OUAOMT is still weak and A Beautiful Noise is looking really rough. Also Shucked and SLIH are looking pretty underwhelming for the middle of summer.

I sure hope Parade recoups. (Who saw this coming in mid-January?) JRB deserves a financial hit for once.

Some Like It Hot has been so unpredictable for so long now, for better and for worse. Can it afford to run much longer in NY like this?

The producers of A Beautiful Noise are banking on the new Fall schedule to boost up their grosses. I just think their target audience avoids NYC during the summer. If their grosses don't go up come September, it'll close in October.

Does anyone know the running cost for ABN? It's always been a bit of an anomaly to me since the average ticket price has been fairly high despite lower attendance, so it seems like it's doing alright if you don't look at the attendance percentage.

jkcohen626 said: "An interesting week. Great for Parade, Here Lies Love, Lion King, Kimberly Akimbo, Just For Us and Good Night Oscar. Not so great for Some Like it Hot, Back to the Future, Once Upon a Once More Time, and A Beautiful Noise. A mixed bag for a lot of others.

Interesting to note that both SIX and Mormon were shut out of the $1 mil club this month. I don't think either will be closing anytime soon since they've both recouped and are definitely still turning a profit each week. But they definitely have softened a bit.

Shucked remains an enigma to me. Does anyone know it's weekly operating costs? I have no clue how well it's doing!"

Shucked's operating budget is somewhere between $600K-$650K

Do you think $1m a week isn't covering their costs? I imagine it is pretty expensive to run

I am really wondering if with Phantom gone, it’s driving people towards the other two real classics on Broadway now, Lion King and Wicked. Wicked also had a great week, and Hamilton isn’t in the 2mil club at this point, at least this week.


eta: oh I just saw both shows did 9 performances this week.

Updated On: 8/1/23 at 05:10 PM

Voter said: "ACL2006 said: "The producers of A Beautiful Noise are banking on the new Fall schedule to boost up their grosses. I just think their target audience avoids NYC during the summer. If their grosses don't go up come September, it'll close in October."

I don’t think they can wait that long. If I owned that theater and saw 50% capacities like that, I’d be invoking that stop clause so quick"

I don’t think they can wait that long either, but with KD as the lead producer, logic does not always btain. The Shuberts will let him sit there and waste OPM until the next tenant is ready. The stop clause almost never comes into play.

Because creatives and lead producer earn weekly minimum royalties. Why close it when you’re getting this?