Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#1

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:04pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/24/2008 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

[BroadwayBen]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#2

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:05pm

Tough week! Most shows down. MAMMA MIA continues to thrive from the film.

[NGD47]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#2

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:08pm

[tos] gets another slap in the face. Gypsy could also use a bump.

Formerly Defyingravity07

< It ain't pretty, but she sure is

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#3

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:13pm

Wow, sucky week. I keep seeing In The Heights going down. Hopefully they can come up.

[BroadwayBen]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#4

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:13pm

Maybe the SUNDAY TIMES article will help TOS. What's going on with SPAM? Is Clay back in yet?

[jake6970]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#5

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:14pm

In The Heights made almost a million dollars, I wouldn't worry about anything.

[esparza 333]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#6

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:15pm

TOS Come ON!!. It is so wonderful but yet it is still really low.

Current Avatar:The sensational Aaron Tveit in the soon to be hit production of Catch Me If You Can.

[frogs_fan85]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#7

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:16pm

BroadwayBen, Clay Aiken returns to Spamalot on September 19th.

[Broadway Baby 2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#8

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:16pm

Tough indeed. Everyone try get as many people as possible to get tickets for Gypsy! It is a very expensive show to run. I want it to be here for as long as possible.

[CyCoSpAz2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#9

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:18pm

Weird seeing a new show up top!

[Broadway Baby 2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#10

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:18pm

Absolutely NO need to worry about In the Heights. They are doing great.

[Broadway Baby 2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#11

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:18pm

sorry double post
Updated On: 8/25/08 at 03:18 PM

[WestVillage]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#12

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:32pm

"Maybe the SUNDAY TIMES article will help TOS."

I don't think it will help at all. I think it will have a reverse effect and make people think its even more inside that it really is. Who wants to buy tickets to a simple little musical (not an epic like Coast of Utopia) where you need a "primer" to know what's going on? Not that you do need a "primer", but the article gave that impression.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#13

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:34pm

I was just saying every week they seem to go down a little and I hope they don't keep going down to far. In other words I hope they don't pull a Spring Awakening (Up after Tonys then come down after two months)

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#14

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:34pm

[tos]...they went down again. Terrifying.

Legally Blonde is getting pretty low again. Wonder how long it'll last.

[Kalimba]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#15

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:44pm

$44.89 as the average ticket price for [tos]. Who's paying that much to see it? To think the numbers will drop even more after Labor Day.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#16

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:45pm

I think they need to raise their prices. It seems like they are almost giving away tickets.

[commasplice]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#17

Posted: 8/25/08 at 3:57pm

"I think they need to raise their prices. It seems like they are almost giving away tickets."

If people aren't willing buy a ticket to a show for $50 (I don't know if that's the price, it's just a number I picked), raising the price of that ticket isn't suddenly going to make them MORE willing to buy it; if anything, it would probably have the opposite effect, especially if they were on the fence about seeing the show. If [tos] can't sell tickets at their current discount, getting rid of that discount isn't going to cause people to suddenly storm the box office for full price tickets.
Updated On: 8/25/08 at 03:57 PM

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#18

Posted: 8/25/08 at 4:07pm

I don't think the price of the tickets is effecting the attendance, its the lack of popularity that is effecting them. I think many people would be willing to pay a little more for their tickets than 40 bucks. I saw a lot of people at the show who were not just students and could probably pay more.

[Kalimba]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#19

Posted: 8/25/08 at 4:10pm

The way to find out is to ask those people who really liked [tos] how much they'd be willing to spend on that show.

[IdinaBellFoster]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#20

Posted: 8/25/08 at 4:11pm

I know they already made their investment back, but Spring Awakening could use a nice bump these days.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

[Brian07663NJ]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#21

Posted: 8/25/08 at 5:13pm

Maybe...if [Title of Show] announced that it is going to close - then people would flock to see the show and it could announce extensions if it were in demand?

It is simple economics - supply and demand. There are plenty of unsold tickets (especially at an inexpensive price) AND there is no demand to exceed the supply of tickets. Announcing the closing would immediately stop the endless supply of tickets and increase the demand!

[Yankeefan007]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24#22

Posted: 8/25/08 at 5:19pm

Riiiight.

It ain't RENT you're talking about. Updated On: 8/25/08 at 05:19 PM