Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#0

Posted: 9/7/05 at 4:43pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/4/2005 in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#1

Posted: 9/7/05 at 4:45pm

Better get those LENNON and ALL SHOOK UP tickets fast...

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

[WickedOne2]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#2

Posted: 9/7/05 at 4:51pm

All I can say for Lennon and ASU is "ouch" Looks like people are trying to see Pillowman before it closes... GO SEE IT as it is AMAZING. Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum are also really nice.

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[MargoChanning]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#3

Posted: 9/7/05 at 4:54pm

Ouch.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[Kevo711]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#4

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:00pm

spelling bee was only 92%!!! Ahh I'm sooo worried that i won't be able to get standing room on the 10th!

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#5

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:01pm

"Ouch", exactly. At a gross under $300,000 for a musical and 42% capacity, you can expect to see a closing notice up soon.

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

Updated On: 9/7/05 at 05:01 PM

[melissa errico fan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#6

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:11pm

Jackie Mason could only muster up 39% in his final week? He should retire.

[ljay889]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#7

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:15pm

WHOA! Go Sweet Charity.

Very few shows jumped like that. If it get back in the 70's, it's in good shape.

[whatyouown223]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#8

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:17pm

Go? How low was it before, cause it wasn't looking that pretty this week...I'm upset for Hairspray. I don't think they've been this low in a while. And it's not even all that low. I just like to keep it in the 90's.

[whatyouown223]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#9

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:18pm

Ah nevermind. I was looking at last week's grosses. Yay Charity!

[The8re phan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#10

Posted: 9/7/05 at 5:48pm

seems as thou the Broadhurst has had quite a financial jinx the past few decades. Other than Fosse, any shows even make it to a year there anymore?

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup

Updated On: 9/7/05 at 05:48 PM

[magruder]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#11

Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:16pm

700 Sundays and Dance of Death were both commercial successes at the Broadhurst.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#12

Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:17pm

Well, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN ran there for two years and two months at 904 performances. It also closed at a loss, at the time the longest running musical to close at a loss (WILL ROGERS FOLLIE returned its investment after its tour, I believe).

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

[Creative Lunatic]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#13

Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:22pm

I don't question that some of these grosses are alarming----but could the mostly downward spiral for the week also be attributed to sluggish box office because of Labor Day weekend when most people head out of town?
Do you predict any trends now that summer is essentially over?

[cathywellerstein]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#14

Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:34pm

everyone should go see lennon and all shook up now. their numbers are very sad.

[AnotherDay46]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#15

Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:57pm

I really hope this goes back up...

[ljay889]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#16

Posted: 9/7/05 at 7:02pm

Wow. Now that I look again. Charity took the biggest jump!

That's really good for them.

[Unknown User]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#17

Posted: 9/7/05 at 8:34pm

BOO!

Go see Light in the Piazza! and all the other Broadway shows... what a down week!

[The8re phan]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#18

Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:18pm

sorry i should have clarified --- the Broadhurst is jinxed musically. No doubt 700 Sundays was a huge success, but let's look at some of the theatre's other recent 'gems' ----

Urban Cowboy
Never Gonna Dance
Into The Woods revival (yeah it won the Tony, but lost BIG bucks)
now Lennon

That house is jinxed.......jinxed I tell you!!!!!!

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup

[Kevo711]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#19

Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:54pm

Wth Spelling Bee in the low 90s will SRO most likely not be available for a saturday matinee (the 10th)?

[adamgreer]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#20

Posted: 9/8/05 at 12:04am

My guess is that it's still selling out the weekend performanes. Attendance has probably dropped during the week, now that summer is over.

[flaemmchen]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#21

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:00am

This week begins the first major slump of the season, with summer vacation being over and people going back to work and school. It'll pick up again in a month or two with the holidays, then slump again through March before picking up again for summer. There'll be some exceptions to the rule, of course, but most shows will see a dip in grosses. It sucks :-P

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

[RockabyeHamlet]

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/4/2005#22

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:12am

Wow... Not a pretty week was it?

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