Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:00pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/4/2013 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: FIRST DATE (0.7%), NEWSIES (0.3%), WICKED (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: FOREVER TANGO (-13.0%), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (-11.5%), SOUL DOCTOR (-8.0%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-7.1%), LET IT BE (-6.4%), JERSEY BOYS (-5.8%), CHICAGO (-4.6%), ONCE (-3.0%), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (-2.9%), ANNIE (-2.7%), MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL (-2.6%), ROCK OF AGES (-2.6%), CINDERELLA (-1.9%), MAMMA MIA! (-0.9%), PIPPIN (-0.8%), THE NANCE (-0.6%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.3%),

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#2

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:20pm

Let It Be, Forever Tango and Soul Doctor are the three shows that have low box office figures. Chicago almost made it to 700, 000. I'm still surprised at the appeal of "Lion King." It's not a show I would like to see, but those box office numbers... wow!! Love to see Pippin doing so well. Hurry back soon Orion! RC: from the blue city of Austin in the red state of Texas

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#3

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:49pm

This is the first week MOTOWN hasn't sold out since it started previews!

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:59pm

Visually Lion King is a stunning show. The set and costume designs are spectacular. The first time I saw it, after seeing the opening number- The Circle of Life, I felt I'd already gotten my money's worth. It is a show that appeals to both children and adults. Being based on a very popular Disney movie also doesn't hurt its appeal. In movie form, I like Beauty and the Beast better, but the stage version of Lion King is just as good if not better than the stage version of Beauty and the Beast.

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 4:03pm

I'm glad to see Annie's attendance is still in the 80% range after Jane's departure, pre-Jane was in the 60% range

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

Posted: 8/5/13 at 4:21pm

Cinderella is doing great! Good to see it's still grossing $1M a week. I don't think it's going to close anytime soon, to the person who keeps saying it will after Christmas(hm, Matt1)

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 4:32pm

FIRST DATE might have more staying power than we think. It's not selling out, but it's doing a lot better than I expected.

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#8

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 4:35pm

It's percentage of seats filled is high...but looking at their average ticket price and their $ amount taken in, they are still papering quite a bit.

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 4:39pm

If the reviews are even remotely positive for FIRST DATE, they can probably grab some pull quotes and stay open into the fall busy season.

I'm not surprised it's showing the potential to stick around; it kind of has the Broadway rom-com market solely to itself. BIG FISH is really the only other romantic show coming this fall (unless someone who saw GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE... can set me right if I'm wrong) and FIRST DATE has contemporary comedy vibe those lack. I kind of feel like its only competition is ROCK OF AGES, in that respect.

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 9:06pm

I'd also say that if Rock of Ages has been able to keep itself running with grosses ranging in that $350,00 to $500,000 range I would imagine First Date might just be scraping by as well. It's a fairly small cast and I would imagine the crew requirements are not super large either (I assume it's a unit set, I haven't seen it yet). It will be interesting to see what happens with it after Labor Day when the fall drop off sets in.

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 9:19pm

Maybe people are realizing that Motown just isn't a good show.

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#12

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 9:21pm

^Look at the tickets calender for this week...

All of the shows for this week are basically already sold out, as are the Saturday matinee performances until November.

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Posted: 8/5/13 at 9:51pm

LET IT BE? More like LET IT BLEED! (Wrong band, I know, but still...)

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Posted: 8/6/13 at 12:41am

^ I laughed

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Posted: 8/6/13 at 4:19pm

Though it's the theatre owner's responsibility to report grosses and not the producer, it will surely do no favors for the producer(s) of SOUL DOCTOR that their gross was apparently reported incorrectly yesterday and the correct figure is only $195,120 -- roughly $100K less, and making its average ticket price $43.05 and putting it at 26.05% of Gross Potential.

Oy vey, indeed.

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Posted: 8/6/13 at 6:15pm

Wow. It is NOT looking good for Soul Doctor.

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Posted: 8/10/13 at 11:28am

I was not able to post my thoughts this week, so I wanted to do this before the week was over. It is indeed great to see many shows do well in the first week of August.

"Cinderella is doing great! Good to see it's still grossing $1M a week. I don't think it's going to close anytime soon, to the person who keeps saying it will after Christmas"

Yes, it is. As I mentioned before it's doing even better than the Broadway Theatre's previous musical, 'Sister Act', which played there for two summers. I think 'Cinderella' will be here for summer of next year at least and possibly longer.

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Posted: 8/11/13 at 3:15pm

averagebwaynut- how do you know the figure was incorrectly reported? (not saying you're not right, I'm just curious because I looked for info on a corrected figure being released but couldn't find it). Either way, that show is in more than a little trouble.

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Posted: 8/11/13 at 4:22pm

Not totally convinced Cinderella is doing great- 80% full in early August- last 2 weeks of August and September crowds begin to thin out

#20

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/4/13

Posted: 8/11/13 at 4:34pm

I think Cinderella is doing "okay" business. Not the best but they aren't hurting. I'm sure the holiday seasons will be lucrative.