Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/11/13

[Rob]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 3:02pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/11/2013 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: THE NANCE (13.9%), SOUL DOCTOR (5.2%), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (3.2%), FOREVER TANGO (3.0%), CHICAGO (2.9%), MAMMA MIA! (2.8%), JERSEY BOYS (2.6%), MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL (2.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1.8%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (1.7%), PIPPIN (0.8%), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (0.5%), CINDERELLA (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: LET IT BE (-9.8%), FIRST DATE (-6.8%), ONCE (-2.9%), ANNIE (-1.6%), ROCK OF AGES (-1.2%), NEWSIES (-0.8%), WICKED (-0.5%), MATILDA (-0.1%),

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[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 3:30pm

Wow, when you look at things by average ticket price, it is really eye-opening. Soul Man & First Date are really scraping low. Ouch.

I was also shocked at how high Pippin and Kinky's average was. Yowa.
By Average Ticket Price

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 3:48pm

I would say last week was comparatively good for First Date, (comparing to what they've been doing, which is of course not great business, but not the worst either) considering that their opening night skews all the financial numbers lower than they normally would have been because of the large number of comps you would have for that performance.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 4:43pm

Looking at the percentage of seats vs avg ticket price, they still must be papering/comping like crazy.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 4:49pm

Oh, I absolutely agree with that. But they are pulling in numbers that are right in line with Rock of Ages, and as a smaller show with far fewer royalties to pay out I'd imagine they have been scraping by. My personal guess is that they are budgeted so that if they reach somewhere between 45-50% of the gross potential they are covering their costs for that week.

I didn't read all the reviews but it did seem as if there were some decent pull quotes mixed in there (the ones I saw seemed to be fairly mixed, not nearly the complete critical drubbing many assumed they would receive).

I'm personally in no big rush to see this, but from what I've heard I wouldn't actively avoid it either (and yes, there are some shows that I've turned down free tickets for because I really had absolutely zero interest in them).

[jnb9872]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 5:36pm

PIPPIN's average is actually even more impressive considering that, of the top seven shows by ticket price, it's the only one I've ever seen on TKTS. That figure includes the discounts!

FIRST DATE looks like it's in no immediate danger, not to the extent LET IT BE might be in. Way less than half the seats filled, and 28% potential? Woof.

And SOUL DOCTOR will very shortly no longer be an open run, surely.

[DeeKDee]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 5:54pm

The grosses for First Date are reminiscent (to me) of the Nielsen ratings for Zac Levi's TV series Chuck. It was never a big hit, but not a big flop either. From Season 2 onward, it was always "on the bubble" for cancellation or renewal, but always got renewed until Season 5, which was announced ahead of time as the last season.

For now, First Date looks that way. Things will probably be clearer next week.

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 7:40pm

Pippin did not appear on TKTS last week.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 7:50pm

^ Yes it did. For a few shows at 20%

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 8:12pm

I stand corrected then. Thought I definitely would have noticed pippin on tkts

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 8:22pm

'Cinderella' is doing well. Something that I didn't get to say in last week's thread was that its making more than its weekly nut which is $700,000 - $750,000.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 8:25pm

Pippin was definitely on there. All the matinees last week and Friday night.

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 8:28pm

Pippin was also on there Saturday night.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/12/13 at 9:56pm

Pippin was at TKTS on Wed.(both shows), Friday, Saturday evening & Sunday at just 20%. It was the first show taken off the board each time it was listed. I have to believe that it's only about 20-30 tickets given to TKTS. Based on their capacity, it looks like SRO was sold at all performances.

And for Vanya and Sonya, I have to wonder what kind of impact Weaver had on ticket sales. Their grosses have dropped since she left.