Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
#0Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:29pm
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#1re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:31pmYikes! Will "Wedding Singer" make it until the game show contestant arrives?
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:31pm
Let's finish strong, Sweeney. Keep on climbing. 77.3% 
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:40pm
Usher's doing great things for CHICAGO's box office -- they're up almost $250K this week.
And HISTORY BOYS is at 100.9% -- can't remember the last time a nonmusical play hit a number like that.
WEDDING SINGER at 56.9% and $447K -- NOT good.
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:42pmWow...Tarzan was only 80.2%!
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:50pmand still Wicked is at dead on 100%. That must be wrong. Every week, it's exactly 100%. Surely there's at least one seat in 14,000 that goes unsold each week!
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:54pmAnother sad week for Wedding Singer. It's only a matter of time.
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:59pmSales are going to go up as soon as AI star joins. TWS ain't going nowhere.
theaterlover45
Broadway Star Joined: 8/21/05
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 3:59pmThe Producers is very low also.
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:02pmI agree, Yankeefan. I don't think TWS will last much longer...
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:05pm
Tarzan took a big drop. About a hundred thousand in one week as the kids start getting ready to go back to school. A slight shudder in the Mouse.
Can Producers make its nut to continue at that gross?
Wedding Singer took what I'm sure to many on here is an unwelcome drop. Needs a polish and a big name fast, or something to pull it back up. Maybe a fall wedding theme.
#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:19pm
Finally some good numbers for Sweeney!!! They should finish strong in this their final week.
And as far as Wicked goes, since their is no SRO, the cancellation line is always long and any seats that are currently not sold get sold that day/night. If Wicked had a SRO, they'd see over 100% almost every week.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:20pmI imagine Hairspray picking up once Diana comes back.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:48pmNo! Wedding Singer can't keep going DOWN! Bah...
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:54pmOUCH Tarzan dropped a ton. Poor Wedding Singer.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:56pm
ahhh noooo. Poor poor wedding singer 
this makes me very, very sad- and worried. it just needs to hold out till laura gets back and I can see her.. thats all I ask.
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:57pmI have been out of the loop for the past 4 weeks. So glad to see The Color Purple still doing well.....And hello again all!
#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:00pmAnd let's not forget that Wedding Singer has only been open a few months. Numbers this low this soon are a bad sign. The Producers has 5 years under its belt, which is respectable, but it started out of the gate at 100%+ due to its star power. Wedding Singer never had that advantage and rarely does a show pick up enough from stunt casting to survive a rather tepid opening, zero Tonys, and poor reviews. Let's just hope it can do well in touring and regional productions. Should be a hit with high schools and community theatres.
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:01pm
Sad to see "Tarzan" drop this much...after seeing it, I just love the show and it's hard for me to understand why it's not doing as well as other Disney musicals. I hope it picks back up.
It'll be interesting to see how Constantine effects "Wedding Singer"'s percentage.
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:24pmMy friend, who is a concierge, said that Disney doesn't do Concierge nights until the show has been open for about 6 months to a year. he just got an invite to Tarzan.
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:40pm
i feel badly for WEDDING SINGER
WiiCKED x3
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/06
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:46pmAww... Come on Wedding Singer!! I feel so bad.
FinallyAmember
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 8:36pmI definitly see things picking up for The Wedding Singer when Constantine joins. What Wicked loving, 12 year old Long Island girl isn't going to drag her mother with her to see him? Heck, maybe some of those parents will be dragging their little girls. I hate to say it, but Constantine is a draw! He is one of the more well-known people to come off of "Idol." If he brings up sales, expect him to replace Saldivar when his contract ends.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/27/2006
Posted: 8/28/06 at 8:48pm
"I hate to say it, but Constantine is a draw!"
Maybe he will draw flies? He looks like he needs a bath.
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