Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/20/15

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Up for the week by attendance was: SOMETHING ROTTEN! (18.2%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (12.4%), HAND TO GOD (11.7%), FINDING NEVERLAND (8.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (8.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (8.7%), KINKY BOOTS (8.5%), THE KING AND I (7.2%), JERSEY BOYS (6.9%), CHICAGO (6.8%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (5.7%), MATILDA (4.7%), WICKED (4.4%), AMAZING GRACE (2.9%), ALADDIN (1.6%), BEAUTIFUL (1.1%), FUN HOME (0.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.3%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: SPRING AWAKENING (-1.2%), HAMILTON (-0.2%),

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Is it me, or is this a remarkably good week for Broadway in mid-September?

Is it me, or is this a remarkably good week for Broadway in mid-September?

I could be wrong but this might be at least partially due to the fact that it was a three-day weekend for many kids/families (Rosh Hashanah was last Monday and most school districts in the Northeast closed for it)

skies said: "So much ( for now) on how Finding Neverland is on its last legs. I get not liking the show but the gloom and doom on its box office prospects despite the actual numbers ( has not dipped below 800 K in 27 straight weeks) is a bit annoying."

Wishful thinking in terms of a show closing has to be one of the most bitter, useless things someone in the theatre community can do.

Updated On: 9/21/15 at 04:01 PM

MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "I thought the same Liza. Its also far enough after the start of the school year where families will begin to take vacations again. A lot of friends (and myself) saw upticks in tourist business this weekend.

You are obviously not from NY because the schools around here just started on or around September 8th. I am always surprised (even though I shouldn't be after all these years) when different areas go back in August...

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And no, most schools in the northeast do not have the Jewish holidays off. I have lived my entire life in the NE and between teaching and being a student, I've never been given the holidays off.

Updated since typing on my phone seldom yields decent communication.

Updated On: 9/21/15 at 04:34 PM

New York City and Long Island public schools have off for all Jewish holidays, which often bumps up grosses in September.

Updated On: 9/21/15 at 05:22 PM

I'd think that a lot of the traffic this time of year also corresponds to the convention/conference calendar. After Labor Day weekend and a week thereafter, things are in full swing, (although not the full-tilt summer tourist madness). Rosh Hashanah may have something to do with it, as I suspect will Yom Kippur may cause a slight dip in next week's numbers - if I'm correct in the calendar. (I recall that the only reason I was able to get supposedly-unavailable RENT tickets the first season twenty years ago was because it was Yom Kippur).

Updated On: 9/21/15 at 06:12 PM

It couldn't have been a school holiday or a family thing because Matilda's revenue would have been up. They seem to do well only when the kids are out and then slump into the barely breaking even territory on weeks like this.

I figured maybe the crowds from Fashion Week also spilled over into the theaters? Any ideas as to how the Pope/United Nations/Obama visit will affect grosses? I could see people avoiding Manhattan but I could also see such a huge influx of visitors for those events that enough people will want to tack on a Broadway show to their Papal mass/United Nations business.