Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 3:42pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/6/2008 in BroadwayWorld.com'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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 3:53pm
And PASSING STRANGE posts a closing notice in 5-4-3-2...
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 3:57pmIf they think this Spike Lee thing will help ticket sales...it's a little too late.
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:00pmFabulous week overall for the majority, hope [tos] will receive a boost soon though.
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:00pm
OUCH FOR PASSING STRANGE
Will they last till next week when I'm in NYC?
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:02pmPassing Strange needs to admit defeat
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:04pm
I wonder how much longer PS will be around for.
Look at Rent it lasted a while when it was only selling b 40-50% so does this mean PS still has some time? How soon would it close? I hope it lasts till next week.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:09pmI saw it once and LOVED it
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:31pmNot to mention PS revoked all discounts because it "won Tony Award."
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:32pmWhey did they revoke the discounts? It only won Best Book its not like at won Best Musical. Mabey if they brought back the discounts it would sell decent enough to stay open.
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:47pm
Look at Rent it lasted a while when it was only selling b 40-50% so does this mean PS still has some time?
Coolkid, there is quite a difference! RENT ran for years at or near capacity, paid off its investment 11 years ago and has accumulated a healthy cushion to absorb the weeks when business was slow.
PASSING STRANGE is a long way from paying back and every week the producers keep it open it sinks even further into the red. Without a significant rise in ticket sales they are foolish to keep it open when it is losing money every week.
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#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:49pm
A nice and desperately needed jump for Spring Awakening!
*edit*: I mean capacity-wise, not money-wise.
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:56pm
This is getting frustrating.
How is PASSING STRANGE still getting such small business, even after the awards season?!
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:58pmBecause the Tony award performance, with the exception of the first minute, was Stew screaming some nonsense.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:01pmI know. How many times could you possibly repeat "IT'S ALRIGHT!"?
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:04pmnot even repeat but in that short amount of time, too.
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:06pm
Oh yeah, and the fact that they only won 1 Tony.
Best Book doesn't exactly make those Mid-Western families run to ticketmaster.
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:10pmPassing Strange dug its own grave by revoking all of its discount offers, as if winning Best Book of a Musical was going to create some stampede to the box office.
#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:24pmIt doesn't deserve to be on Broadway. Simple.
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/6
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:29pmi don't like to bash productions on the board but damn that tony performance did nothing for me except give me a headache. before you flame me, i have been seeing shows on Broadwat for almost 25 years and I have no problem with something different, not bad.
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