Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 7/8/12

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 7/8/2012 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: PORGY AND BESS (14.0%), GHOST (11.6%), WAR HORSE (8.2%), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (7.4%), CLYBOURNE PARK (6.4%), MARY POPPINS (5.9%), END OF THE RAINBOW (5.3%), MAMMA MIA! (5.2%), ANYTHING GOES (4.6%), SISTER ACT (4.3%), JERSEY BOYS (3.2%), THE COLUMNIST (2.2%), MEMPHIS (1.6%), CHICAGO (1.5%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (0.3%), NEWSIES (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (-15.0%), EVITA (-11.3%), GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN (-2.8%), HARVEY (-2.2%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (-1.8%), WICKED (-1.7%), ROCK OF AGES (-1.5%), ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (-1.5%), ONCE (-1.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-1.1%), THE LION KING (-0.4%),

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^ I forgot that Ricky was on vacation this week. I wondered why 'Evita' had such a big drop.

That drop for Evita is insane!

Ouch for Peter with Borle gone. I was there Friday night, the mezz was 1/2 empty. I'm assuming the orchestra was full, it seemed to be so.

The new Stache (sorry, I've forgotten his name) is charming, but not anywhere as over the top as Borle. Which made the scene chewing bit unfunny. I still found it to be utterly delightful. My kids (11 and 15) adored it.

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I did Blaxx- thanks

In keeping with weekly tradition, what follows are random, disconnected thoughts about grosses:

The Evita producers should do whatever they can to never let Ricky leave. A closing notice is imminent as soon as his contract ends...kind of like How to Succeed/Radcliffe.

I'm a bit surprised a lack of Borle caused so much damage to Peter and the Starcatcher, I didn't realize so many people had gone for his last week. Hopefully those numbers pick up.

Audra's return understandably was necessary for Porgy and Bess.

Anything Goes had a dismal closing week (as did the Columnist, though that's less surprising,) I really would've thought more people would have been interested in going. It was a nice run nonetheless.

Can someone please tell me who is buying these tickets to Spider-Man? It must be those crazy Puerto Ricans who needed to find a home while Ricky was on vacation. In all seriousness, who is shelling out huge money for this?

The pattern of Nice Work's downward spiral has been confirmed. I highly doubt it makes it much past Labor Day.

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I doubt Evita lost much money, if at all. If they did close down, all of the workers would still have to get paid so they would have been shelling out a lot more money than losing just 50,000 in the week.

How to Succeed did not close the show down for Nick Jonas. When Daniel was in it, Warner Bros. bought out the theater so he could attend the premiere of the Harry Potter movie.

I find it suprising that LION KING and WICKED both went down in attendance, but still got the 2 highest grosses this week. I think the attendance at WICKED at least partially went down because on Saturday night both Jackie Burns (Elphaba) and Richard H. Blake (Fiyero) were both out.

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^Lion King and Wicked have consistently insanely high numbers. No one cares about who is out in one performance of shows that have been running for years as the replacement cast often has no big names (as is the case for Wicked and The Lion King.) That had no impact on gross. Shows that had performances on July 4th had some difficulty selling them and that is the better explanation for why some shows saw a slight dip in grosses.

For future reference, Wicked and The Lion King consistently gross the most. Occasionally, Spider-Man or once or twice The Book of Mormon will sneak in there but the fact that they're on top is nothing to marvel at. It would be noteworthy if they didn't have the highest grosses.

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You guys seem to forget what happened last week-the film The Amazing Spiderman opened to insane grosses-I'm sure that some of the show's success can be attributed to that.

Those people always crack me up. Inevitably, if I'm at the Phantom of the Opera or a similar show and Christine or the Phantom is out, everyone will complain to whomever they're with, and I highly doubt 99% of them had ever heard of or knew about either actor.

It had nothing to do with the gross.

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Though I was a bit upset about Jackie being gone because I heard she sings and acts the part very well. I saw Donna Vivino in her place. She was great as well. I don't know why they were out, because they were both at the matinee.

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Yes. I was confused as well, because she was on tour. I didn't recall her being a curent Elphaba understudy. She wasn't in the playbill, but the stuffer slip said Donna Vivino.

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