Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 3:07pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/27/2009 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 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 3:16pm
ouch for Memphis' $38.75 avg. ticket price...
Looks like Shrek and Mary are doing (a bit) better this week.
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#2re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 3:26pmShrek did better than a bit. I went up over 100k.
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#3re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 3:31pmYeah, but Shrek had another week in the red, bigtime. Better than last week, but still terrible.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#4re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 4:09pm
"Yeah, but Shrek had another week in the red, bigtime. Better than last week, but still terrible"
Shrek will still survive at least through the holidays. That's when the BIG bucks will come in. It had grossed like this from May 10 - 24 as well as January 25 through Febraury 1, but the producers still kept it open.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/grossesshow.cfm?show=SHREK%20THE%20MUSICAL
#5re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 4:19pmI'm just saying that if the show has a weekly nt of 700k, It only has paid back around 3 million back to the investors, but I'm pretty sure most of the money from the investors is from Dreamworks, they don't mind not getting all their money back so fast because the movie franchise has given them over $1 billion in their pocket from around the world.
#6re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 4:36pmI know it's still early in the slow season, but is anyone else pleasantly surprised by the fact that most shows are doing pretty good? It seemed like nothing but doom and gloom was in store for this fall, but shows seem to be still holding their own.
Wicked Tour (2/26/08); Wicked Bway (7/1/08); HAIR (7/1/09); Rock of Ages (7/2/09); Wicked Bway (7/3/09); Mary Poppins Tour (8/2/09); Wicked Tour (11/18/09); Wicked Tour (12/5/09)
Barney Stinson
Leading Actor Joined: 5/1/09
#7re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 6:16pm
The weeks you mentioned weren't near as bad as Shrek's last 3 weeks. Two weeks at or below $450K, and another week at $550. They've only had 1 week worse than any of those three this year ($502K), let alone 3 weeks that bad in a row. If the nut is $750K, thats a loss of at least $800K in 3 weeks, and that's ignoring the gross/net adjustments, and other % of gross cost people always forget to include in the weekly nut. Obviously, it will do much much better in the holiday season, but do they think they can make enough to offset the massive losses they are incurring now?
Whatever, people seem to think Shrek has investors with limitless resources to throw away, so maybe they'll run it at a loss forever.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#8re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 6:29pmBecause the Shrek investors have more money than the Disney investors, of course, and they have never closed a Broadway show.
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millie_dillmount
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#9re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 6:36pm
Whatever the Shrek situation, I am happy to see that there was at least an increase in gross and capacity. Whether it was enough to pay the weekly nut is another story.
Hopefully Mary Poppins will do better in the coming weeks.
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perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#10re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 8:27pmA Steady Rain grossed more than West Side Story and Jersey Boys Updated On: 9/29/09 at 08:27 PM
#11re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 8:59pmWhat are you smoking?? A Steady Rain made 150k less than BE.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:13pm
"ouch for Memphis' $38.75 avg. ticket price..."
Might have something to do with comps and/or heavily discounted preview tickets?
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KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#13re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:28pmI don't wanna start anything, but I've been hearing a lot from various people that Shrek is rumored to close up shop around late '09 and early '10... Again, simply rumors that shouldn't be spread yet, but I just really hope that it's not true.
#14re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:36pmShrek will be gone by January.
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#15re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 9:43pmI don't understand why Mary Poppins is still running. Better yet why they closed Mermaid and not Poppins. Poppins has been out or going on 3 years and it is just a roller-coaster show. The grosses aren't stable. I know Addams Family is going in the Lunt but damn, they could just close Poppins move Mermaid and have the TAF in the Lunt.
#16re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 10:00pm
Well Mary Poppins has already recouped, so they can afford to take a loss here and there. The Little Mermaid had yet to recoup when they announced the closing and even though Disney said they expected it to have a good summer (which it did), it was still highly unlikely that Mermaid would be able to make back their investment in the fall and winter, especially after the whole Adrian Bailey fiasco. So they cut their losses and closed the show.
Closing Poppins and moving Mermaid to the New Amsterdam would've made little sense because if TLM was having trouble making money in the Lunt, they certainly weren't going to make more money in a bigger theater. And Disney wouldn't spend even more money on the show moving it from the Lunt-Fontanne to the New Amsterdam when it hadn't recouped.
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#18re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 10:17pmA year ago today, TLM was playing 74%. Wish it was still running!
#19re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/28/09 at 10:57pmGlad to see an increase on I think every show. In The Heights is going up and down but still staying in the middle of the pack. It's the kind of show where it can do that and survive till the holidays or the summer. I think they are probably just above their weekly nut.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#20re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:10am
wow! roages is at 90% in September! Look at all those dregs that love the show!
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#21re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:26amWhoa... calm down crazy person. I got my info from Playbill, and I misread the attendance column of BE as its gross when I glanced at it. It must be wonderful to never make mistakes, wdw.
#22re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:46amquestion: If West Side Story is only playing to 80% capacity, why not offer some tickets at TKTS for just 30% off. Even if it's only offered during the week(Tue-Thur).
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beautywickedlover
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#23re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:50am
"I don't wanna start anything, but I've been hearing a lot from various people that Shrek is rumored to close up shop around late '09 and early '10... Again, simply rumors that shouldn't be spread yet, but I just really hope that it's not true."
What kind of people told you this? Were they people who worked at Shrek or people who know cast and crew members? I think a performance on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parde can help boost sales. This show deserves a longer run than "The Little Mermaid."
Updated On: 9/29/09 at 12:50 AM
#24re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/27
Posted: 9/29/09 at 12:59am
"question: If West Side Story is only playing to 80% capacity, why not offer some tickets at TKTS for just 30% off. Even if it's only offered during the week(Tue-Thur)."
They have been offering tickets for $30% off for Wednesday matinees at the booth. I assume they have some sort of strategy, because it's only been offered for that performance for the past couple of weeks.
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