Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/20 — Page 2

It's looking that way. When is Brian's last show? Chances are that I'm going in November.

Ben Crawford starts I think 11-11 but wouldn't it be weird to close the show b4 the holiday rush? So that makes they'd wait till January
I predict it'll be January 3rd or 10th 2010

If Shrek lasts to Nov 8th, I'd think they would last until January. With numbers in the $400Ks though, they may not make it to November. Can they afford to drop $300-$400K a week until then?

I think that Dreamworks was expecting this drop off & expects Shrek to do better over the holidays. If they didn't then why would they have not closed the show at the beginning of September when they were still making SOME money.

Updated On: 9/21/09 at 07:13 PM

what do you guys think about miss julie? do you think itll last its entire run? i mean its a limited run to begin with

Roundabout shows almost always play out their initial run.

People keep referring to a show recouping as though it lowers the show's operating costs. As far as I can tell, it doesn't. So having recouped wouldn't make a show any more or less likely to stay open. Unless someone can explain to me why recouping somehow lowers weekly operating costs.

No it doesn't. How does it give them extra cash? All shows have a reserve of some sort, completely at the discretion of the producers. They can choose to pay $$ out or keep a higher reserve however they like. Recoupment doesn't affect that decision either really. Of course, they want to pay investors back, so they can start taking a large % of the profits themselves, but afterwards, they will want to pay themselves as well. Really don't see how recoupment changes smart reserve holding.