Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:01pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/16/2009 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.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:06pm

A good week overall but the drops are already starting. Poor 9to5 couldn't keep the bump from the closing announcement.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:08pm

Good for "Mary Stuart". In the midst of all the Sturm and Drang on Broadway, this little show that could keeps plugging along. from RC in Austin, Texas

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#4

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:13pm

Hell yea Avenue Q

#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:17pm

Geeeeez 9 to 5

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:19pm

Burn the Floor made more than 9 to 5.

that's just pathetic.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:25pm

Disney made a mistake to close Mermaid too soon. Maybe they'll extend it? or is someone going in to Lunt Fontanne right away?

Yikes for 9 to 5. I guess it just can't seem to find an audience. too bad, i actually enjoyed the show. sad to see it go like this.

#8

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:27pm

^ I feel like we go over this every week with the Little Mermaid. The producers knew it was going to do well in the summer but suffer in the fall like the other shows. It will not extend.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:30pm

Surprised to see Shrek drop already, but at least it's not a big one and it still made $940,000.

"Disney made a mistake to close Mermaid too soon."

Thomas Shumacher said that although the show will have a strong summer, it would be fiscally irresponsible to keep it open during the fall months which are difficult times to make alot of money.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130725-Davy_Jones'_Locker_Broadway's_Little_Mermaid_to_End_Aug._30_National_Tour_Planned

Updated On: 8/17/09 at 03:30 PM

#10

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:30pm

yeah, i know this is being discussed every week. It just makes me wonder if they know they'll make money, why cancel it? are they just expecting it to drop to hell when sept comes? but most shows do. the only thing i can think of is that the show cost too much to put on and needs to be near sold out every week to make a profit.

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Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:32pm

"yeah, i know this is being discussed every week. It just makes me wonder if they know they'll make money, why cancel it? are they just expecting it to drop to hell when sept comes? but most shows do. the only thing i can think of is that the show cost too much to put on and needs to be near sold out every week to make a profit."

Also, Beauty & the Beast made this much money during its closing weeks in 2007.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesshow.cfm?show=BEAUTY%20AND%20THE%20BEAST

Updated On: 8/17/09 at 03:32 PM

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:36pm

camncal- It has been making above its nut for practically the whole summer (well guessing its at 650,000 a week). It had a high prodcution budget. If it costs too much it would have closed last year but they were making money. If a show needs to be sold out every week to cover a prodction budget(uhmmm.spiderman.) it makes no sense to produce it.

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Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:37pm

Beauty's gross is pretty much the same as Mermaids throughout. Why did the show go on so much longer?

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:38pm

Because BatB recouped over 10 years earlier.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:38pm

Because Beauty was better, and IMO a lot more theatrical.

My one friend actually met the girl who was apparently going to replace Chelsea in the title role in September - awful for her! So I assume the majority of contracts were up as well.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:42pm

"Because Beauty was better, and IMO a lot more theatrical."

I 100% agree with you on that.

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Posted: 8/17/09 at 6:22pm

Looks like summer has already hit it's peak.

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Updated On: 8/17/09 at 06:22 PM

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 6:30pm

Worst week in a long time I think. I wonder how long.

#19

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 8:00pm

When 9 to 5 goes on TDF the tix sell out so quickly. I don't see why they don't put some more tix on there. If it's selling at 70% capacity on average, put 15% of the tix on there, at least they'd be getting some money back and the theater will be fuller.

Also, I tried to get Mermaid tix last week and you can't get tix. I'm surprised they aren't extending at least an additional month. Unless the theater is already booked.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/17/09 at 8:53pm

With the hot streak that "TLM" has been on, I wonder if it's going to just barely recoup before closing. Looking at the grosses over its run, it's got to be getting close. Even if the operating budget was so high, it hit that almost every week and this summer alone probably put a huge dent in production costs.

#21

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16

Posted: 8/18/09 at 2:44am

Poor 9to5, I cannot believe this show is doing so poorly with ticket sales. I hope it does better on tour.