Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:05pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/13/2017 in BroadwayWorld'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: 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%),
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:08pm
So that Bill Murray stunt helped Groundhog Day?
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barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:12pm
The grosses for Come From Away are truly remarkable.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:13pm
And WAR PAINT keeps falling? I'm wondering how much longer this will run. i was thinking of doing a NY weekend right after the new year to see this, but....it might not make it till then.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:13pm
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.
ntrackbar
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/14
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:16pm
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.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
chuckydisc
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/13
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:18pm
Rob said: "KINKY BOOTS (-24.1%)"
Yes that's a drop but worse is the 52+% loss in revenue and POSSIBLY a 90'ish percentage drop in profit if it's a 750k nut.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:20pm
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.
Margo319
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:30pm
You know he paid that top ticket price of $375 because HE'S AWESOME!!!
ntrackbar
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/14
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:37pm
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.
Margo319
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:39pm
Wow. He said "WOM" three times in ONE paragraph. Love.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:41pm
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.
Theater3232
Featured Actor Joined: 10/16/10
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:54pm
Prince of Broadway & Terms of My Surrender both did pretty terribly when you consider their average ticket price and Gross % Potential. It's as if just about everyone paid the TDF price (or was given a COMP ticket) to these shows.
Not surprised at Terms of My Surrender given that its target audience is only the "progressive" (Socialist/Marxist) crowd.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 3:54pm
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.
ntrackbar
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/14
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:03pm
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.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:05pm
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.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:06pm
summed it up better than I did, ntrackbar. My thoughts exactly
Green_Flash
Understudy Joined: 4/5/13
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:08pm
The end of summer doldrums begin this week. Expect next week's report to be much softer.
ladypresent
Understudy Joined: 3/13/17
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:11pm
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?
@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:14pm
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.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:14pm
Well, obviously I'm biased. But everyone I've spoken to had extremely positive WOM, which is why I saw this show in the first place. Most (of course not all) press I've seen is positive. I gone 4 times with friends as well as convinced 5 other friends to go on their own, and every single one loved it with one person only liking it. Obviously that's not a majority or representation of the general population, but I can see where one would feel there's positive WOM and its nothing to be rude over. I've also spoken to the people around me after the show as well and they always had an amazing time. Again not insisting that this is how everyone feels, just adding to the discussion that all the WOM I've encountered is positive as well so it isn't hard to see where they got that idea from :)
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:15pm
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.
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:15pm
Double post.
Updated On: 8/14/17 at 04:15 PM
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/13/17
Posted: 8/14/17 at 4:21pm
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*
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