Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:04pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/14/2011 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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#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:14pmLooks like I'm seeing Sister Act just in time.
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#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:29pmI wonder what can account for the steep drop in the weekly gross for FOLLIES, besides the large number of tickets sold at a discount.
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#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:31pmLast week's grosses for Follies were based on it's first preview only. I think a lot of fans wanted to be there for the 1st. This week's figures show a more natural attendance for previews.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:40pmSpiderman is starting its dip. Obviously still good numbers, but slowly and consistently going down in capacity and average ticket price.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:42pmI wonder what the people who paid $197 for a half-empty performance of Hair felt.
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#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:53pmJust about everything is going to drop. Vacations are beginning to end. People have already gone back to work, and the Southern and Mid Western states have started back to school. This occurs every year, its nothing new.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 4:47pmI second spike3's comments. We're moving towards the end of summer and the beginning of fall. The summer tourist season is coming to an end. Pretty much all the shows, except for the routine box office juggernauts, are going to decline in gross.
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#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 5:42pmSales always drop significantly once marching band season begins.
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#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 6:33pm
"Spiderman is starting its dip. Obviously still good numbers, but slowly and consistently going down in capacity and average ticket price."
Not really, i think it was another great week for them
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#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 7:45pm
I do not think catch me numbers were bad enough to warrant a closing notice. Other shows doing worse are still up & running
I wonder if they were forced out.
I am waiting for Priscilla to show up on TDF.
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#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 7:59pm
I doubt they were doing poorly enough to get booted -- you don't hear of that happening all that much.
I'm guessing it had more to do with thier lack of advance sales.
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#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 8:10pm
I also found it surprising that Catch Me announced its closing already, although they have been doing worse than either Sister Act or Priscilla. Their gross went down this week even after the closing was announced, so that doesn't look too promising for a last-minute extension.
Sister Act has been at $700K or more every week since the week after opening. Priscilla has bounced around more but has never been below $647K. Catch Me has dipped below $700K for much of the summer (and was only at $543K the week of June 5). Purely speculating, but I'm guessing the weekly nut for all 3 shows is below $700K, so I don't think any of the shows is losing money each week this summer, but the fall may be rocky for Sister Act and Priscilla.
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#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 8:46pmPriscilla's weekly running cost is definitely below $700,000. I can't remember, but was the initial investment 12 million or 14 million?
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#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:12pmI was in the city this weekend -- Priscilla was up for both the matinee and evening (I assumed you were referrng to the TKS line).
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#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:24pmIs the success of Follies because of Bernadette or the show itself?
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#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:35pm
Success? It was only the first week of previews. And the show only fulfilled 48.14% of its gross potential.
Too early to call it a success or failure.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:51pmI'm just surprised the numbers are as high as they are.
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#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 10:06pmBABY IT'S YOU and MEMPHIS should have been gone before CATCH ME...ugh
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:29pmI wonder if Sister Act is making it's weekly nut?? I would tend to think it's around $700K. I would like to see it survive Sept. & Oct. and at least make it through the end of the year.
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#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/16/11 at 12:52amSister Act I would think is around $600,000 or so. It might be more but I think they are fine :)
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#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/16/11 at 2:12am
A reminder to all to subtract roughly 8-9% from the numbers you read in the Variety or on BWW before comparing them to your understanding of what a given show's weekly breakeven may be. If a show has been doing $700K gross as shown on BWW, and their breakeven is $650K, that show is still likely losing a small bit of money.
Also, to Mr. Roxy's point further up, there is a strong argument to be made that a smart producer should close a show BEFORE its grosses make it clear to everyone that it's time for the show to close. As I believe a subsequent poster speculated, if the show has little to no advance to speak of, they're wise to close it now while it's still making or losing only a little bit of money in any given week, rather than waiting until they've taken a week or two of far more significant losses for no good reason.
Now a fair counterargument to that might be that if they can survive September and October, there is money to be made (or more likely, made back) in November and December. But 'Catch Me' has never been THAT strong, and with new shows opening (musicals, star-driven plays), it's no slam dunk that they would do well enough over the holiday months to warrant suffering through what would almost certainly be massive losses in September and October. So solely from the point of view of fiscal responsibility, their decision to close at Labor Day -- solely IMHO -- makes a great deal of sense, even if it's emotionally disappointing to someone like me who was a fan of the show.
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#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/16/11 at 2:19am
"BABY IT'S YOU and MEMPHIS should have been gone before CATCH ME...ugh"
Baby It's You is closing the same day as Catch Me if You Can. 
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#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/16/11 at 5:10amBaby It's You announced a few weeks ago.
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#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/14
Posted: 8/16/11 at 5:33pmFOLLIES is almost sold out for tonight's performance (only 60 seats left, many of which will be sold on TKTS I bet).......assuming all were sold to paying customers perhaps the grosses will be better this week!!
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