Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 3:03pm
Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/6/2015 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: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (8.6%), BEAUTIFUL (7.5%), KINKY BOOTS (5.9%), THE LION KING (5.8%), LES MISÉRABLES (5.0%), WICKED (4.1%), JERSEY BOYS (3.8%), CHICAGO (3.2%), HAND TO GOD (1.4%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (1.4%), AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.8%),
Down for the week by attendance was: FINDING NEVERLAND (-6.8%), MATILDA (-6.5%), THE KING AND I (-5.1%), MAMMA MIA! (-3.1%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (-3.0%), FUN HOME (-1.4%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (-1.0%), ALADDIN (-0.4%), ON THE TOWN (-0.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.3%), AMAZING GRACE (-0.2%),
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 3:08pm
Clock's ticking on Hand to God and Amazing Grace...
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 3:10pmAmazing Grace doesn't follow rules. Hamilton up there with Lion King!!!
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 3:25pm
Ouch for Matilda too. Their grosses have been going down the last few weeks. Probably a result of all the kids going back to school. Hope business picks up for them soon.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 4:00pmMatilda does seem to suffer the peaks and valleys more than most. Why does Matilda get hit harder by slow seasons than something like Aladdin?
KnewItWhenIWasInFron
Leading Actor Joined: 6/23/14
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 4:09pm
There's an error in "Fun Home." It went up, not down.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 4:11pmNo, look again. The attendance for Fun Home did drop one percent.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:17pm
neonlightsxo said: "Matilda does seem to suffer the peaks and valleys more than most. Why does Matilda get hit harder by slow seasons than something like Aladdin? "
Disney is the foremost marketing company in the entertainment industry. It is unrelenting and sophisticated. Matilda is marketed by the same people who market every other Broadway show. They can't keep up.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:24pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "Clock's ticking on Hand to God and Amazing Grace...
How sad. There are only two plays on Broadway right now and "Hand of God" which is brilliant, can't find an audience. Broadway has become a place solely for musicals (mainly bad theme park shows) and plays that are British imports or revivals.
Updated On: 9/8/15 at 05:24 PM
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:29pm
Wow---I didn't realize that there are only two plays currently running.
Good news---
Four plays begin previews this month:
Old Times 9.17.15
Sylvia 9.25.15
Fool For Love 9.15.15
The Gin Game 9.23.15
Updated On: 9/8/15 at 05:29 PM
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:34pm
And the bad news is that every single one of them is a revival. The worst news is that "Sylvia" stars that extremely untalented, walking dead imitator Matthew Broderick.
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:37pm
South Fl Marc said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Clock's ticking on Hand to God and Amazing Grace...
How sad. There are only two plays on Broadway right now and "Hand of God" which is brilliant, can't find an audience. Broadway has become a place solely for musicals (mainly bad theme park shows) and plays that are British imports.
HTG has nothing to be sad about: it has exceeded everyone's wildest expectations.You are also focusing on late summer frames when plays don't do well (hence most are closed and new ones have not opened). The bottom line is, the target audience for shows like HTG are checked out of theatregoing at the moment. I expect it to have an uptick before it closes.
It is also worth noting that Broadway does not need to be the destination for American plays because we have an incredibly robust off-B scene. What comes to Broadway is the exceptional play that seems like it can attract a Broadway audience but that is not a measure of what's on offer to interested playgoers.
Finally, while there certainly is theme park crap musicals on Broadway, it is preposterous to describe it as consisting solely of such. There are, at this moment, 9 musicals on Broadway that no one would described as theme park shows), two of which compare favorably with the best shows in the history of Broadway.
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#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:44pm
There are these new plays coming:
China Doll 10.21.15
Misery 10.22.15 (stage adaption of a movie/book)
King Charles III 10.10.15 (London transfer)
Therese Raquin 10.1.15 (billing it as a "new adaptation"
So some might say we only have one new play in China Doll
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:51pm
It used to be that half the shows on Broadway were plays, including shows held over from previous seasons. The cost of tickets and the type of audience goer who can afford them have made dramas almost impossible to be produced on Broadway, unless of course it's a British import with a British cast. I find that fact really very sad.
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 5:53pm
South Fl Marc said: "It used to be that half the shows on Broadway were plays..."
To quote Neil Diamond, "But 'used to be's' don't count anymore. They just lay on the floor 'til we sweep them away."
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 6:07pm
Of course we do have revivals of the quintessential american plays "The View From the Bridge" and "The Crucible" .... . oh , that's right, both British Imports with British Casts.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 6:08pm
Marc, it "used to be" that there were no off-B theatres presenting great plays in abundance. It "used to be" that a majority of the plays on Broadway were crap. And it "used to be" that there was no such thing as Broadway. The one most important thing to understand about New York is that remaining the same is not a part of the DNA. On this very day (Sept 
in 1664, the Dutch burghers of New Amsterdam, who had gone to sleep the night before as Dutchmen, woke up to find their harbor overflowing with British ships. Peter Stuyvesant handed the British the keys to the city and everyone went on with their business. That acceptance that things don't stay the same is at the root of the city's greatness.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:00pm
neonlightsxo said: "Matilda does seem to suffer the peaks and valleys more than most. Why does Matilda get hit harder by slow seasons than something like Aladdin? "
Matilda sales are always the best during the holidays and the summer - because it is actually one of the few shows out now that is targeted for children that is on Broadway at this time. Yes it has adult appeal but more from word of mouth than from anything else.
Aladdin was a film that many adults watched as kids so you have a built in adult audience.. of both kids and adults. Plus Aladdin the movie was way more popular than Matilda the movie...and has a lot of adult humor in it so again has a more broad audience.
Matilda is obviously aware of this trend...once school starts, they eliminate the Wed matinee and have two Sunday shows and only 7 pm shows during the week. I believe it helped last year -hopefully will do so again.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:05pm
Thanks for the responses. Makes sense of course. Especially the point about Aladdin having appeal to kids and adults.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:08pm
I think Matilda does have appeal to adults and kids with both the Danny Devito movie and the book, it's a pretty highly successful franchise. But any show would find a drop during the non summer season. I guess since it has a tour now people aren't flocking to New York to go see it.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:38pm
If you're shelling out $60-100 for a ticket, you want to make sure you're getting your money's worth. To see a new play that you might hate, nope. But a show with a celebrity? Sure. Or a big mega-musical where you can see your money at work on stage? Sure. I can see why Hand to God is struggling. It's an awesome play, but it doesn't really have mass appeal. But, to me, it felt like a Broadway play. It belonged there. The design/direction, everything. It was really well done.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/8/15 at 9:46pm
at least ON THE TOWN went out strong.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/9/15 at 12:42am
South Fl Marc said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Clock's ticking on Hand to God and Amazing Grace...
How sad. There are only two plays on Broadway right now and "Hand of God" which is brilliant, can't find an audience. Broadway has become a place solely for musicals (mainly bad theme park shows) and plays that are British imports or revivals.
"
How hard is it to get the name of a show right? Hand *TO God. It was even in the message you quoted.
Anyway. I disagree. Broadway is not filled with "theme park musicals." Broadway today, including this upcoming season, has been breaking ground the last few seasons in a general sense of the term and I think we've had some of the best and brightest the past few years. Maybe it's just me though...
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/9/15 at 4:19am
"Broadway today, including this upcoming season, has been breaking ground the last few seasons in a general sense of the term"
How can this upcoming season have been breaking ground?
"and I think we've had some of the best and brightest the past few years. Maybe it's just me though.."
Maybe.
Personally, I've found the past few seasons to be utterly ghastly.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/6/15
Posted: 9/9/15 at 4:33am
This year's Tony Award for best musical. A host of other awards before that. Hailed and hyped to the max by the critics and the media monolith. "Breathtaking!" "Game-changing!" "Ground-breaking!" A masterpiece like no other.
Now, not even three months after the Tony Awards: 143 unsold seats last week; 61 the previous week.
I wonder why.
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