Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17

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: GROUNDHOG DAY (8.8%), ON YOUR FEET! (7.9%), A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 (7.4%), BANDSTAND (1.9%), ALADDIN (1.6%), NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (1.4%), BEAUTIFUL (1.2%), 1984 (0.6%), CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (0.3%), COME FROM AWAY (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: KINKY BOOTS (-24.1%), THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER (-8.0%), WICKED (-4.4%), WAITRESS (-4.2%), SCHOOL OF ROCK (-4.2%), ANASTASIA (-2.8%), MISS SAIGON (-2.8%), CHICAGO (-2.4%), PRINCE OF BROADWAY (-2.3%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-1.9%), WAR PAINT (-1.2%), MARVIN'S ROOM (-1.1%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-1.0%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.4%), HELLO, DOLLY! (-0.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.3%),

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The grosses for Come From Away are truly remarkable.

Awesome jump for GHD...

Perhaps the publicity around Bill Murray helped, but I recall looking at the seating chart prior to last Monday night's show (before his surprise attendance) and it seemed stronger than weeks past. Hopefully the positive pub and strong WOM will keep the show going through the end of the year.

Miss Saigon not looking great.

ntrackbar said: "a-mad said: "Awesome jump for GHD...

Perhaps the publicity around Bill Murray helped, but I recall looking at the seating chart prior to last Monday night's show (before his surprise attendance) and it seemed stronger than weeks past. Hopefully the positive pub and strong WOM will keep the show going through the end of the year."

Their gross potential is still way too low and I imagine it takes a lot more than 55% for them to breakeven. I don't think it is enough to get them past Labor Day let alone through the end of the year. Plus I just don't think it has "strong WOM" - at least not any of the words I have spoken or heart.



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It may not be breaking even yet, but the increase certainly helps. Appreciate your analysis of WOM since you appear to be the expert on it. I guess that supersedes all of the great WOM i've heard on it from many people since it's opened... They're all idiots, apparently.

a-mad said: "It may not be breaking even yet, but the increase certainly helps. Appreciate your analysis of WOM since you appear to be the expert on it. I guess that supersedes all of the great WOM i've heard on it from many people since it's opened... They're all idiots, apparently."

Hey a-mad, definitely didn't claim to be an expert. But anecdotally there isn't strong WOM on my end and their historic grosses so far tend towards the claim that WOM is not strong, despite the WOM you may have heard. Not sure why things have to escalate so quickly with you.

a-mad said:

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It may not be breaking even yet, but the increase certainly helps. Appreciate your analysis of WOM since you appear to be the expert on it. I guess that supersedes all of the great WOM i've heard on it from many people since it's opened... They're all idiots, apparently.



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lol no need to be an a**hole, a-mad. I'm an investor and producer, so most of the people i know tend to be more business minded than creatively critical, but I hadn't heard a single positive thing about that show either. And while I can't claim to know every theatre goer in the city, I think we can safely say the general pulse on that show via WOM is at least moderately negative, if not outright negative. Random strangers talk to me about DEH, Great Comet, CFA etc., but nearly no one even brings up GHD. The ones that do didn't love it, although of course there are always exceptions.

GreenGables said: "a-mad said:

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It may not be breaking even yet, but the increase certainly helps. Appreciate your analysis of WOM since you appear to be the expert on it. I guess that supersedes all of the great WOM i've heard on it from many people since it's opened... They're all idiots, apparently.



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lol no need to be an a**hole, a-mad. I'm an investor and producer, so most of the people i know tend to be more business minded than creatively critical, but I hadn't heard a single positive thing about that show either. And while I can't claim to know every theatre goer in the city, I think we can safely say the general pulse on that show via WOM is at least moderately negative, if not outright negative. Random strangers talk to me about DEH, Great Comet, CFA etc., but nearly no one even brings up GHD. The ones that do didn't love it, although of course there are always exceptions.



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Geez, lighten up. I make one sarcastic comment related to someone who claims WOM is poor on GHD, when I continually hear great things, and all of a sudden I'm an a**hole? Apologies that my circle of associates don't seem to have any credence since none are investors or producers - they're just regular theater-going fans that love the show. Yes, I get the numbers... they're not good - and I'm not pretending they are. But as a fan of the show I can certainly be somewhat hopeful over the recent uptick. I also realize that WOM and commercial success don't always equate. There seem to be many shows recently that have good WOM (Bright Star, Bridges of Madison County among others) but failed commercially.

a-mad said: "GreenGables said: "a-mad said:

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It may not be breaking even yet, but the increase certainly helps. Appreciate your analysis of WOM since you appear to be the expert on it. I guess that supersedes all of the great WOM i've heard on it from many people since it's opened... They're all idiots, apparently.



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lol no need to be an a**hole, a-mad. I'm an investor and producer, so most of the people i know tend to be more business minded than creatively critical, but I hadn't heard a single positive thing about that show either. And while I can't claim to know every theatre goer in the city, I think we can safely say the general pulse on that show via WOM is at least moderately negative, if not outright negative. Random strangers talk to me about DEH, Great Comet, CFA etc., but nearly no one even brings up GHD. The ones that do didn't love it, although of course there are always exceptions.



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Geez, lighten up. I make one sarcastic comment related to someone who claims WOM is poor on GHD, when I continually hear great things, and all of a sudden I'm an a**hole? Apologies that my circle of associates don't seem to have any credence since none are investors or producers - they're just regular theater-going fans that love the show. Yes, I get the numbers... they're not good - and I'm not pretending they are. But as a fan of the show I can certainly be somewhat hopeful over the recent uptick. I also realize that WOM and commercial success don't always equate. There seem to be many shows recently that have good WOM (Bright Star, Bridges of Madison County among others) but failed commercially.





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Eh, I'd say brightstar was more mixed. It was certainly a 'fun' show, and has a great score, but the plot had a few too many 'wtf?' moments (a la 'A Man's Gotta Do' to have people really run out of the theater and tell their friends. But I digress,

We may never be able to really come to a true agreement on WOM or even how to measure WOM, but i've found the social tool on BWW to be fun to play around with. It isn't everything but:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/industry-social.cfm?orderby=like_count


You'll see GHD only has 15k fb likes, which puts it somewhere in the middle of the pack, and 5k 'talking about', behind all the other big shows from this season. I'm not trying to diminish your friends' opinions on the show, just saying that having individuals like the show doesn't always translate into the true WOM buzz that commercial producers look for, ie people running and telling their friends to buy tickets.

The end of summer doldrums begin this week. Expect next week's report to be much softer.

Looks like Michael Moore took a hit in it's first official week!...Oh well...

Loving the numbers for Great Comet and Come From Away, though.

ladypresent said: "how war paint, GHD, bronx tale, the play that goes wrong, beautiful (yes beautiful's numbers are bad remember its august...imagine all these dropping 20% in about 4 weeks) haven't announced closing yet is beyond me. Remember the summer is the BOOM time. this is the time you make your money so you can hold on from after labor day to thanksgiving.
Am i missing something here? "

A Bronx Tale is doing quite well...I don't see why anyone would expect a closing. Perhaps it will close in January and launch a tour, but there's no reason to think it will post closing in the near future.

ntrackbar said: "a-mad said: "Geez, lighten up. I make one sarcastic comment related to someone who claims WOM is poor on GHD, when I continually hear great things, and all of a sudden I'm an a**hole? Apologies that my circle of associates don't seem to have any credence since none are investors or producers - they're just regular theater-going fans that love the show. Yes, I get the numbers... they're not good - and I'm not pretending they are. But as a fan of the show I can certainly be somewhat hopeful over the recent uptick. I also realize that WOM and commercial success don't always equate. There seem to be many shows recently that have good WOM (Bright Star, Bridges of Madison County among others) but failed commercially."

Ironic because I think that is what we are asking - for you to lighten up. Glad you love the show. Glad your friends do. People feeling passionate about a theatrical piece is only a good thing for the industry we all love.

I simply disagreed with your premise that there was strong WOM from the evidence that we have and my personal experience. Didn't call anyone an idiot. Didn't claim anyone's opinion was less valid than another's. Shall we agree to disagree and move on? Neither one of our opinions will make an iota of difference on the day that GHD posts closing whether it is in 2 weeks or 2 years.



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* hatchet buried*