Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/28/22

[Rob]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 12:20pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/28/2022 in BroadwayWorld'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 (% of capacity) was: MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (12.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: ALADDIN (-14.1%), A STRANGE LOOP (-7.2%), WICKED (-6.9%), BEETLEJUICE (-6.9%), INTO THE WOODS (-6.7%), CHICAGO (-6.5%), HAMILTON (-6.1%), COME FROM AWAY (-5.8%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-5.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-5.6%), THE KITE RUNNER (-3.9%), FUNNY GIRL (-3.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-3.4%), HADESTOWN (-3.2%), SIX (-2.2%), THE LION KING (-2.2%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.9%), DEAR EVAN HANSEN (-0.5%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.3%),

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[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 12:25pm

And this is when we can definitely tell summer is wrapping up...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 12:34pm

After several weeks of great numbers it's a bit shocking to see this. But not at all unexpected. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 12:51pm

A strange loop should probably pack it up before Halloween weekend, unfortunately. Unless they can stick Billy porter or another famous black artists as one of the thoughts, I don’t think it has much legs left. They should put every ounce of cash they have left in a pro shot or tour to get this to a wider audience, because I don’t think broadway is working for them. I can say the same for Hadestown, but we’ve yet to see what lillias white will do for the box office. I hope it’s a net positive for them.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:11pm

End of summer definitely hitting things hard!

Not bad for Into the Woods still though for its first week of the extension. I'll be very curious to see the numbers post-Sara Bareilles though. Evan Hansen is soaring towards its final performance. Not a great sign for Beetlejuice for post-summer box office. And A Strange Loop... yikes.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:14pm

Beetlejuice has proven to be pretty tourist heavy, so I'd suspect Sept will be not great for them, but I'd think they'd see a Halloween bump. Maybe some fun Halloween advertising, etc. 

A Strange Loop... yeah... maybe they just need to tour to some of the big regional markets. Do a few weeks in LA, SF, Chicago. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:17pm

Lillias means zilch. We should expect the Kerr to be available by January. Same goes for the Lyceum (this is not news).

Curious about two shows with high running costs: Beetlejuice (they are on TDF for the first time in a long time) and Moulin Rouge (which just revamped its ad campaign). Both could be close to treading-water territory.

Really curious how much of a bump Lea can give FUNNY GIRL — and how long her contract is for.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:28pm

I mean ML is still making coin. 

And how expensive is Hadestown? It's still playing to almost soldout houses? Maybe Lillias will garner a higher avg ticket price?

[Bill Snibson]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:35pm

Kinda shocked at the big hit ITW took, tbh. 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:42pm

Bill Snibson said: "Kinda shocked at the big hit ITW took, tbh."

A dose of perspective, $1.6mil is still an incredible number for the production, and this was the first extension week, with fewer advance weeks to sell into it, so I'd say it's a net positive where they ended up.

Will say it doesn't seem too far outside the realm of imagination that the Lyceum AND the Kerr may well be empty come next winter. Lilias isn't going to save them from the wasteland that is September and October.  Unless they have a big deal beyond Broadway star lined up, I'm not sure what their future looks like beyond the holidays. Beetlejuice won't be playing come January either the way it's going.

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:49pm

RippedMan said: "I mean ML is still making coin."

I have to assume MOULIN costs at least $900K per week to run. It’s a massive show. There’s also music licensing and any sort of % that Baz/Disney get for the IP, and an A-class creative team, and Covid costs. A $1.1 gross means a slim profit margin — it may not be losing money yet, but it’s close. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:52pm

ASL may just try to tough it out to the end of the year.

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:54pm

Does anyone know if Moulin Rouge! has recouped yet? If not, I have to imagine it's at least pretty close.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 1:57pm

I'm not sure how it factors in or if it does, but ML is touring, in London and Australia. I'd imagine it's doing fine? I mean I'm sure they'd want to be pulling in $2M but slightly above breaking even is probably a good thing. I just don't think it's cause for alarm just yet. 

Once they resort to some D-List celeb then we can alarm. 

[itsshowtime2]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:17pm

The Kite Runner seems like it would be difficult to even cover running costs at the amount they are earning each week. How has this show not closed yet?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:17pm

Tour and international are separate entities. Like I said before, Moulin probably isn’t losing money YET, but it could be dangerously close to that territory. In which case they choose to run it as a loss-leader (& in the hopes that business picks up), or they close it.

This is a big, expensive show, and Broadway has always been just one part of the brand.

I’m curious about what the fall and winter will look like for this and other shows.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:27pm

Seems like ML was such a hot ticket pre-pandemic. Seems like it really took a hit.

[Papi2013]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:33pm

RippedMan said: "Seems like ML was such a hot ticket pre-pandemic. Seems like it really took a hit."

It is not doing that well on the road either. 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:41pm

Call_me_jorge said: "A strange loop should probably pack it up before Halloween weekend, unfortunately. Unless they can stick Billy porter or another famous black artists as one of the thoughts, I don’t think it has much legs left. They should put every ounce of cash they have left in a pro shot or tour to get this to a wider audience, because I don’t think broadway is working for them. I can say the same for Hadestown, but we’ve yet to see whatlillias white will do for the box office. I hope it’s a net positive for them."

Why would Lilias White have any material impact on box office.  As I have said before, most theatre goers have no idea who she is.

I think Beetlejuoce is proving again to be a ‘kids out of school’ show.  Will it survive to Christmas?

Too late, but I wonder why the producers of DEH didn’t try to run a little longer.

Maybe ASL should move to an off-Broadway theatre???

I am expecting ITW to gross around a million the week after Bareilles leaves.  Hope it runs for a long while, but I think this is the start of the declining grosses per week.

 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:42pm

RippedMan said: "Seems like ML was such a hot ticket pre-pandemic. Seems like it really took a hit."

I also don't think it's a show that actually will do well in the Summer months which could be a piece of it. It's not family friendly in a way that would make parents run to take their kids to while they're out of school. In the past, shows like that have done better than others in the Fall than most shows. An example this was especially true for Kinky Boots and Matilda. KB would do better in the Fall while Matilda did great in the Summer. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 2:49pm

yeah I have mixed feelings about ML. It's a fun show, but it def. doesn't have substance.

But I think it's a fun happy hour beforehand, night out with friends show. But maybe that market is dwindling. It doesn't seem like the "must see" it once was when it started. 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 3:22pm

Bill Snibson said: "Kinda shocked at the big hit ITW took, tbh."

I've been a bit surprised as to how well they've maintained their pretty high asking prices.  A sizeable number of mezzanine seats at $200+ is darn steep.  But the dynamic pricing seems to be on their side and for those who patiently wait and have flexibility with performance dates, much higher priced seats often do come down in price.

 

Updated On: 8/30/22 at 03:22 PM

[HogansHero]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 3:41pm

just out of curiosity, how did ML become the acronym?

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 4:04pm

HogansHero said: "just out of curiosity, how did ML become the acronym?"

I am wondering the same exact thing…

[benfox2]

Posted: 8/30/22 at 4:29pm

lmao not to pile on but I was losing my mind trying to think what ML stood for. Can we stick with MR? Not all of us can afford the brain cells to think so hard about every shows acronym haha