Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:16pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/30/2015 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: ON THE TOWN (27.5%), BEAUTIFUL (2.7%), HAND TO GOD (0.8%),
Down for the week by attendance was: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-8.8%), WICKED (-7.8%), MATILDA (-7.0%), CHICAGO (-6.2%), THE LION KING (-5.9%), THE KING AND I (-5.7%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (-5.5%), LES MISÉRABLES (-4.3%), JERSEY BOYS (-4.3%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (-4.3%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-3.6%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-3.0%), AMAZING GRACE (-2.5%), FINDING NEVERLAND (-2.3%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-2.1%), ALADDIN (-2.0%), FUN HOME (-2.0%), KINKY BOOTS (-1.6%), MAMMA MIA! (-0.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.7%),
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Hamilton22
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/15
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:23pm
Woo On the town! Finally playing to the capacity it deserves.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:23pm
WHOA. I don't follow ballet. Misty Copeland is that huge of a draw?
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:24pm
It might break 1 million for its final week.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:24pmI'm shocked as well, considering she isn't even playing 8 shows, I think she's playing 6.
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:26pm
On The Town woah.....Misty and the closing notice's impact!
timisimaginary
Chorus Member Joined: 3/2/15
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:29pm
as FindingNamo would say, "never underestimate American racism"
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:32pm
Nice to see people flocking to see that glorious production before it disappears...
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:33pm
WOW for ON THE TOWN!! If only they could have got Copeland for a longer run they might have had the chances to break even. I hope to see the show one last time tomorrow night.
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:33pm
Ill echo everyone else in saying that I'm thrilled On the Town can finally be playing to great numbers. I did see articles all over the place about Misty Copeland's Broadway debut, so I guess it worked! Good on them for getting to end the show on a high note.
Curious if anyone was out of The King and I this week. Not that their numbers are bad, but a decline of about $100,000 is a bit odd to me.
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:33pm
I don't believe the grosses for Finding Neverland. The publicity dep't is trying to keep the show relevant by posting over 1 million .........uh uh. And the pitiful online commercial praises the show for receiving 4 Broadway.com audience awards!!!! If it is above 1 million next week- then that is proof that they aren't reporting the true grosses. I'll eat my playbill if I am wrong.
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:37pm
"WHOA. I don't follow ballet. Misty Copeland is that huge of a draw?"
I don't know if she's that popular with ballet fans. But for a ballerina, she's pretty well known. She's done the talk show circuit and gotten endorsements and press that would expose her to an audience outside of typical theatre fans and ballet fans.
MNC77
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/13
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:44pm
Rough week for Gent's Guide, Hand to God, and Jersey Boys. The end might be near for all three
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 3:55pm
Amazing Grace's numbers pain me. Are they really going to power through to October?
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 4:11pm
ljay, Copeland is the biggest rising star in the ballet world and she is easily the most exciting dancer to come along in a while. 60 Minutes recently did a piece on her- track it down if you're interested in finding out more. She come across as instantly likable and down-to-earth, yet when she steps on stage she's a firecracker. If you had to compare her to a theater actress, I guess she would be like Sutton Foster bursting onto the scene with Millie.
I really had no plans to go back to OTT until her casting was announced. I promptly called up a friend to say, "We're going. Let's buy tickets now!"
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 4:32pm
Hamilton edged out Wicked for the first time. Wow.
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 8/31/15 at 4:38pm
DAMN ON THE TOWN GO!!
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 12:22am
I saw Finding Neverland on Saturday and it was practically sold-out.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 12:34am
evic said: "I don't believe the grosses for Finding Neverland. The publicity dep't is trying to keep the show relevant by posting over 1 million .........uh uh. And the pitiful online commercial praises the show for receiving 4 Broadway.com audience awards!!!! If it is above 1 million next week- then that is proof that they aren't reporting the true grosses. I'll eat my playbill if I am wrong."
Sorry to break the news to you, but the "publicity department" does not have anything to do with the reporting of grosses. That's the box office treasurer's job, and s/he does not even work for the production. What you would be saying (if you knew what you were talking about) is that the box office treasurer is committing fraud, which if true would land him or her in the pokey (and obviously end his or her career). The grosses are the grosses. Bodies in seats are bodies in seats. Sometimes we have to believe things we don like. Because they are true.
UnwoundFantasies
Leading Actor Joined: 10/13/11
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 12:41am
No one was out of King and I this past week so I'm not sure why the decline . I saw it this past weekend and the loge was half empty. However, Kelli is missing 3 shows this weekend so the grosses should be lower for next week!
spencer101f
Swing Joined: 8/29/15
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 1:54am
I agree with you.
I saw the show Saturday night (*barf*), and the mezzanine was barely half full. Didn't get a look at the orchestra, though.
Although tickets are pretty expensive for that show, at the cheapest being $59 for a rear mezz seat or $37 for very minimal amount of partial view tickets.
curiousincident
Chorus Member Joined: 7/18/15
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 1:55am
I'm kinda worried for Curious Incident (yes, i know my username has to do with the show but i couldn't think of anything better) because their grosses seem to be getting lower and lower by the week...
Pootie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 8:57am
curiousincident said: "I'm kinda worried for Curious Incident (yes, i know my username has to do with the show but i couldn't think of anything better) because their grosses seem to be getting lower and lower by the week...
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Didn't they recoup in four months?
As for Copeland, I think it would be fair to say she is to ballet as Tiger Woods was to golf, in revitalizing public/young (and minority) interest, though I don't follow either of those things.
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/30/15
Posted: 9/1/15 at 9:41amI was at King & I on Wednesday night, and was surprised to see the theatre 75% full.
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