Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/17 — Page 3

@JustAnother there is no such thing as holding theatres. Your license is for one show. the landlord gets to decide what comes in next (each tub on its own bottom) and besides no one would lose money to hold on to a generally undesirable theatre anyway.

@Concierge stop clauses are almost never invoked and certainly not between the Nederlanders and David Stone and Marc Platt. When they want the theatre back, they'll get the theatre back. No one pushes someone out unless and until they have something ready to come in. A lousy show is better for a landlord than an empty building.

HogansHero said: "@JustAnother there is no such thing as holding theatres. Your license is for one show. the landlord gets to decide what comes in next (each tub on its own bottom) and besides no one would lose money to hold on to a generally undesirable theatre anyway".






For point 1, if the show that you perceive as your major competitor for a theater is looking to lock in a venue right now, I can see postponing an announcement to ensure they don't get that theater. That said, as they would say in groundhog, it's a duck move and might not endear you to the owners of the theater (so it's more of a kagan move, perhaps).



Point two I'll concede. I can see it happening more at one of the theater in prime broadway, though

The war paint score was pretty much universally lauded critically, along with the performances. So to say otherwise is rather Trumpian...

JaglinSays said: "The war paint score was pretty much universally lauded critically, along with the performances. So to say otherwise is rather Trumpian..."

Actually, what you say is not true, and that's so easy to demonstrate that it makes what you have posted sound like fake news.

Anastasia will not close by January. It's popular, it has a solid following, and ticket sales are usually very strong. This is the end of Summer, where many shows take a dip. It's still doing good; the earliest I can see it closing is the end of next year. I'm not sure how long Charlie will last though. It's one of the new shows that parents can take their kids to (Anastasia, Aladdin, Wicked, etc.) without having to worry about the content. However, no Tony noms and all of their negative reviews are not helping them. I'll give it till Spring next year.

Itonlytakesajourney said: "...I'm not sure how long Charlie will last though. It's one of the new shows that parents can take their kids to (Anastasia, Aladdin, Wicked, etc.) without having to worry about the content. ..."



I think people assume it's a safe new show (and the producers have done nothing to disabuse others of the notion), but from what I've heard (the squirrels scene) it's not as safe as it should be if it wanted to avoid playground gossip about how little Johnny was traumatized...

DRSisLove said: "By looking at the graph at the bottom, it's clear this show's numbers are consistently on the downward."

Who made this graph? Fox News? It dropped, but this chart makes it look like it's now down with A Doll's House Part 2 and War Paint.

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 10:18 PM

Call_me_jorge said: "
I assume they got it from BWW. "

I did. My point was that its on a consistent decline.

1. On its face it is not "consistent."

2. The entire Y axis is in profit-land, which kinda makes the whole point meaningless.

The graph is interesting to see, as long as everyone gets what it is showing. The job of a producer is to look at that and figure out how to get it to plateau over the long haul before it descends too far.