Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/10/23

No shockers here, the Broadway Week 2-for-1 discount offer is now in play.

We need some extra stunt casting in HLL asap! I would be heartbroken if it didn’t make it to awards season. It deserves to run.

starlightlocamotion said: "We need some extra stunt casting in HLL asap! I would be heartbroken if it didn’t make it to awards season. It deserves to run."

Just because Here Lies Love likely won’t survive much longer doesn’t mean it won’t be remembered come Tony season. Look at KPOP and Ain’t No Mo’.

Here Lies Love deserves better but it seems like producers took the offer of an available theatre in summer (meaning they'd have to wait almost a year for any awards bumps) and I guess assuming "written by David Byrne" had the same box office draw as "see Byrne sing his greatest hits on stage."

Are there any major Filipinos stars with a huge box office draw? Like pop star or mega star level not just Darren Criss level.

I was surprised to see Chicago have a higher weekly gross than Hadestown.

nasty_khakis said: "Are there any major Filipinos stars with a huge box office draw? Like pop star or mega star level not just Darren Criss level."

off the top of my head, Bruno Mars and Vanessa Hudgens both have Filipino backgrounds and are pop stars. Vanessa wasn’t really much of a draw in her last broadway outing though… and Bruno Mars has his Las Vegas residency.

PURLIE, as anticipated, off to a ROUGH start. Definitely a lot of comps this first week since the audience (as far as I saw) was remarkably more full than what was sold on Telecharge.

A lot of black celebrities and theatre performers also seemed to have gone this week and posted about it, maybe to help drum up the word?

I still say that A Beautiful Noise will end up as the longest running new musical from the 2022-23 season.

EDSOSLO858 said: "At this point, it may be a matter of which relatively-recent shows decide to keep running at a loss until January, and which productions are smart enough to stop further bleeding before then.

The jury's not out yet onSIXand& Juliet, but their numbers are softening."

SIX is not losing life any time soon. It’s cheap to run and when the Broadway money dries up, it can reopen at NWS. & JULIET has a bit of space for stunt casting (TBH, so does SIX) and will likely deploy that option in case grosses really start to sag

quizking101 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "At this point, it may be a matter of which relatively-recent shows decide to keep running at a loss until January, and which productions are smart enough to stop further bleeding before then.

The jury's not out yet onSIXand& Juliet, but their numbers are softening."

SIX is not losing life any time soon. It’s cheap to run and when the Broadway money dries up, it can reopen at NWS. & JULIET has a bit of space for stunt casting (TBH, so does SIX) and will likely deploy that option in case grosses really start to sag"

And if that prolonged sagging eventually occurs, let's see if & Juliet has the guts to utilize their aces in the hole for stunt-casting — which would ideally mean the show would close on an unthinkable, unbelievable high at the end of their contracts.

Shark is Broken...unless it's a limited run, that has to be the next to close. I mean...ooooofff

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Bway Week indicates what shows have actual interest from a sustainable number of buyers. Any show under like 85% capacity should be concerned for the months ahead.

Those HLL numbers are awful and unless they can rapidly turn things around I fear it doesn’t even make it to thanksgiving? It may be past the point of salvaging on the level that they require, and Tony noms or wins are little consolation when a show fails that massively."

Making it to thanksgiving…try beginning of October!