Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/28/14

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/28/2014 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: CINDERELLA (12.1%), THE COUNTRY HOUSE (11.7%), MATILDA (8.6%), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (6.4%), WICKED (1.6%), MAMMA MIA! (1.0%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (0.8%), ALADDIN (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance was: LOVE LETTERS (-24.0%), ON THE TOWN (-23.9%), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (-12.1%), CABARET (-6.4%), LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL (-5.7%), JERSEY BOYS (-5.4%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (-5.1%), KINKY BOOTS (-4.9%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (-4.5%), IF/THEN (-4.1%), CHICAGO (-3.8%), ROCK OF AGES (-3.6%), LES MISÉRABLES (-3.1%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-2.7%), PIPPIN (-2.1%), ONCE (-1.7%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-1.2%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (-0.8%), THE LION KING (-0.5%), BEAUTIFUL (-0.1%),

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Nice bump for Cinderella.

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On the Town is doing terribly. It's as if they only sold TDF tickets and nothing else.

Love Letters goes to show you that the critics can love a show, but audiences can shun it (and vice versa). If people (especially tourists) are going to spend $150, they want to be dazzled with Chicago, Book of Mormon or Les Miz. They don't want to pay $150 to see two people sitting in a chair reading a book.

Disgraced is an LCT production.

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That does not answer the question of whether or not this is a commercial run. When Venus in Fur transferred to the Lyceum after it played at the Friedman, didn't that become a commercial run, even still through MTC?

Updated On: 9/29/14 at 03:20 PM

Thanks, neonlightsxo.

Pippin seems to be dropping off too

"Nice bump for Cinderella."

Indeed. I'm still hoping it will recoup by January. If it does not, then there's always the tour to help make up for that.

There's no way Cinderella will recoup if they maintain these grosses. They're losing money again, and no matter how much they make during the holidays won't make up for it. They are probably hoping the tour will be profitable.

Based on the grosses for both Cabaret and Les Mis, I guess it was too soon in the final analysis...got the die hards (like me) but the broader audience was not ready. Can't say that I am surprised. Re Les Mis, it is one thing for a tour to sellout for a week or two out of town, with no competition; it is another thing to do great business week after week. The Tony performance did not help either; as great as that number is, it has been overdone.

Given the great business that Matilda was doing a few weeks ago, was the audience totally families over the summer? The last time I remember such a sudden and huge drop off is Titanic, almost 20 years ago.

Finally, If/Then, how much more time has it really got. I think Finding Neverland would be better in that slightly smaller theater than the Lunt Fontanne, which seems too big to me for such a special piece (count me among the ones who LOVED it both times I saw it).

^Wouldn't Disgraced have a number of seats that are discounted for LCT subscribers which would lower the gross and gross potential? Think You Can't Take It With You is the same with Roundabout subscribers. I doubt Disgraced will recoup but I imagine it'll have a decent run.

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Updated On: 9/29/14 at 03:41 PM

I don't think it's a stretch to say that it's as if On The Town only sold TDF tickets- the average ticket price was $49, which is basically a TDF ticket. On average everyone did pay TDF prices.

Love Letters, This Is Our Youth, You Can't Take It With You, The Country House- none of these seem to be catching on at all. Terrible gross potentials despite, in some cases, some very good reviews and/or word of mouth.

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