Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/19/12

[Rob]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 3:06pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/19/2012 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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Up for the week by attendance was: WAR HORSE (14.1%), END OF THE RAINBOW (10.4%), GHOST (5.9%), CLYBOURNE PARK (2.9%), BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL (2.6%), PORGY AND BESS (2.4%), THE LION KING (1.1%), EVITA (0.7%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SISTER ACT (-8.1%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (-6.6%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-6.5%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (-5.6%), CHICAGO (-4.7%), WICKED (-4.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-3.9%), GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN (-3.7%), MAMMA MIA! (-2.6%), ONCE (-2.4%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.5%), ROCK OF AGES (-1.2%), MARY POPPINS (-0.9%), NEWSIES (-0.1%), ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (-0.1%),

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[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 3:10pm

"Chicago" is still doing fairly well, even with the weekly decrease. It's been a durable show for so many years. Yay! from rc in austin, texas

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 4:12pm

I wonder what the grosses will be like for "Nice Work..." once September rolls around. It's probably making it's weekly nut, but I can't see it getting by in the fall.

[mc1227]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 8:57pm

If you noticed, with the exception of Evita (ricky martin was back)and some of the shows that are closing soon, most of the sales were off this week. Even Newsies and Once were down for the first time as well as Mary Poppins, who has been killing it this summer. Dog days of summer will bring us into Broadway week, where the 2 for 1's will do very well. I think Nice Work will make it through..

[tphiliboy152]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:29pm

How is Chicago still going strong?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:42pm

Non-english speaking tourists.

[evic]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 11:08pm

Chicago is poised to take over as the third longest running musical in a few months surpassing Les Miz. Love it! Great American musical done bare bones. Then- on to overtake Cats for #2. It will never overtake Phantom, but 2 is amazing! Say what you will about the Weisslers, but they sure knew how to produce this one-and Fosse is smiling.

[evic]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 11:08pm

Chicago is poised to take over as the third longest running musical in a few months surpassing Les Miz. Love it! Great American musical done bare bones. Then- on to overtake Cats for #2. It will never overtake Phantom, but 2 is amazing! Say what you will about the Weisslers, but they sure knew how to produce this one-and Fosse is smiling.

[spike3]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 9:24am

Dont forget that school has started across the States, as early as the second week of August in some cities/states, so that and people going back to work account for the drop. Happens every year.

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 1:38pm

1.3% difference in attendance between Phantom and Wicked...

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 1:44pm

Just wondering, why are there no grosses posted up for Chaplin the Musical? I thought the show started previews this week...?

[notzach2]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 1:57pm

Because these are last week's grosses.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 2:02pm

Oh, my bad. Ha! I misread the date. Thanks!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 2:36pm

I saw Chicago a couple years ago when Ruthie Henshall went in and I think I was the only person in the audience that spoke English.