Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 3:50pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/9/2009 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.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 3:53pmVery good week all around. Nice to see 9 to 5 finally rise.
#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 3:55pmGood for 9 to 5, and nice to see the little jump for Q.
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 4:03pmThe past few weeks' numbers clearly show why 9 to 5 is closing. It's always been in the bottom 5 of capacity % and for the size theater they are playing in, it's grosses are barely covering the weekly nut. It would be making half that if they stayed open.
Leia947
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/09
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 4:03pmWow, The 39 Steps had a nice little jump!
"Even I think that's hot, and I'm a straight guy. If I ever become gay he is the reason." - Drunk Chita Rivera on Gavin Creel
"Leia947 is my theatre mamma, and I love her for it." - AndAllThatJazz22
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 4:05pmYay for Shrek! Phantom is also having an amzing summer.
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 4:33pmSo happy for ALL the shows. I wish next to normal would finally hit half of a million mark!
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:10pmAmazing - only 3 shows played to less than 90%!
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:13pm
Another great week!!! Is there a chance that TLM will recoup before it closes?
Hopefully N2N will recoup, with it's small running costs...I think it could definitely happen.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:16pm^ As much as I would love for it to do so, there is probably no way it will recoup within the next three weeks. N2N should recoup within the next couple of months. The running costs are around 200k a week and I'm pretty sure the production budget was no more than $4 million.
Barney Stinson
Leading Actor Joined: 5/1/09
#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:36pmI don't think N2N will recoup in a few months. No way. Can't imagine their nut is as low as $200K, and even if it was that's $4 million of weekly operating costs (20 weeks x $200K per week). It's grossed $6.8 million, and that includes all those extra fees you have to subtract now to get the 'real' revenue number. And like everyone else, their grosses will drop significantly in September.
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:37pmIf it does indeed cost 200k a week to run and was 4million and keeps bringing in 400k it will take exactly 4 more month. Not too shabby.
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:42pm^But it's numbers will most likely be lower for the slow fall and winter months, so it'll take longer than that. Still, Next to Normal is slowly and steadily getting there. Glad to see it's avg. ticket price climbing. It will finish the summer out strong.
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:47pm
Yay for Shrek! I'm glad to see 9 to 5 getting a bump.
#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 5:52pmTrue it probably will take longer, but I think its probably safe to say it will recoup.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 6:00pmI don't think there is any show on Broadway with a weekly running cost of 200k, those days are long gone.
Barney Stinson
Leading Actor Joined: 5/1/09
#17re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 6:34pm
People seem to forget about the two important cost that aren't really included in the weekly operating expenses. First, there is the ticketing and credit card fees associated with the new gross gross reporting, so you have to lop a certain % of the gross.
Then of course there are the royalty payments to the creatives, which I understand have minimums but also run at either a % of gross sales, or a % of weekly net operating income.
So even if N2N had a nut of $200K, the investors didn't make $280 last week, they made $480K - the gross fees/etc - $200K - % of NOI to royalty payments.
Doubt N2N will recoup anytime in 2009, and unlikely before the end of next summer.
#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 6:47pmCurtainDownPuller- 39 Steps definitely has a nut of 200k or lower. Anyway, I did it read it in a Variety article that N2N, 39 Steps, and another show(it's slipping my mind right now) have a weekly nut of 200k-300k.
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 6:48pmEvery show had an increase in gross sales!
yankees1253
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/07
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 7:24pmVery Great Week. When Will Billy Recoup?.
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 7:46pmJust a question, how does Jersey Boys have 101%? Sorry for my ignorance. XD
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 7:46pmJust a question, how does Jersey Boys have 101%? Sorry for my ignorance. XD
wickedfan11
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/06
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/9
Posted: 8/10/09 at 7:50pm
"Is there a chance that TLM will recoup before it closes?"
I doubt it. As I've stated in another thread, Thomas Shumacher said on the dayof the announcement that ecen though the show will have a VERY STRONG summer, it would be fiscally irresponsible to keep it open during the difficult fall months.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130725-Davy_Jones'_Locker_Broadway's_Little_Mermaid_to_End_Aug._30_National_Tour_Planned
Updated On: 8/10/09 at 07:50 PM
Videos