Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/17

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/17/2008 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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Wow! how is [tos] still surviving? This is crazy. I really hope things start picking up for those guys.

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In retrospect, [tos] really could have done with hanging on for a smaller theatre. People are sounding the death knell 'cause they're hitting below 50% capacity, but had they been pulling the same number of bodies through the door at the Helen Hayes, say, they'd have posted 76% this week, which most people would be saying is not too bad for a non-conventional non-big brand show. I think where they're really gonna do well is if they do a regional tour. I'm amazed how many of the fans on their web pages have been saying "please come to the Florida", "please come to Chicago", etc. I was thinking of saying "go see them on Broadway, you moaners, I flew out from London (my first visit to NYC let alone B'Way) just to see them" - THEN I realised most of their web fans are really young, teenage drama student types who can't spring for flights or a hotel etc. A tour playing just a few nights in each city would work well I think - taking the show to their internet fan club. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a movie based on the whole [tos] story - it's your typical Hollywood feelgood movie (but end the movie on Opening Night and don't mention the grosses!). As a huge [tos] fan, I have to be realistic and say I don't see it lasting into October. I half suspect American Buffalo (previews from Halloween, no theatre yet announced) has already been offered the Lyceum

Updated On: 8/18/08 at 03:48 PM

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 04:03 PM

Most of the money to be made for the TOS show team is going to come from regional licensing - and when every college and rep company in the country starts doing it. I don't think a tour would be financially viable, though I could certainly see the original cast/creative team opening it in Los Angeles or Chicago.

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 04:21 PM

That doesn't change the fact that [tos} is actually a strong book musical. They don't rewrite it when an understudy goes on. It doesn't need the original writer/stars to succeed any more than the Laramie Project did.

Rodgers and Hammerstein already owns the licensing for it.

http://rnh.com/show_detail.asp?id=TO&s=1

I'd be shocked if they didn't. Given the industry love the show and the other musicals scheduled to open on Broadway this year...

And actually, I don't think the point of Act 2, is that they couldn't replace one of the actors and have it be the same show, but that it would compromise the artistic integrity to replace one of them with some type of 'name' to make the piece more commercially viable.

Yay for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! Still doing extremely well. Almost as good (money wise) as In the Heights, even though it sold more seats/capicity!

I think they put TOS in the Lyceum even though it's not the smallest theater because nobody wants the Lyceum which means that a) they get a better deal on the rent and b) there is less pressure for a theater owner to push them out to get a more lucrative show in. While the Booth and the Cort are smaller, their location puts them in more demand for the few plays that make it to bway.

side note... I can't figure out if it's an in-joke by the producers of TOS to have a $200 top ticket price. A comment on the industry or just stupidity?

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Updated On: 5/2/09 at 07:32 PM