Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:15pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/7/2008 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.

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

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:18pm

Holy ****.

#3

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:18pm

Ouch Legally Blonde. Ouch.

#4

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:19pm

Holy frick. EQUUS really did well for itself, huh?

As for everything else: WHAT THE () HAPPENED?!

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#5

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:20pm

Not just Legally Blonde. Spamalot, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid all took really hard hits.

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#6

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:20pm

Looks like Legally Blonde might not be the only show to start packing.

#7

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:21pm

WHOA!!!

The numbers for Mary Poppins and Spamalot are quite scaryand overall a truly horrible week.

#8

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:22pm

Seriously, what happened?!

Does anyone know?!

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

#9

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:22pm

I guess now we know why there are discounts for TLM.

Will Title of Show survive this drop? I hope it does.

#10

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:23pm

Someone once told me that an election year is a really bad one for theatre box office in general.


Burn, LEGALLY BLONDE, burn.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:24pm

um, didn't everyone get a boost from Labor Day last week? and shows dropped this past week because it was back to school time?

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#12

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:25pm

OMG that is so bad.

i love lb and all but its going to close and (tos) is not going to make it to june.

is equus gross even enough to rent the house?

grease at 55%? hopefully soon the brooks atkinson will be open.

jersey boys at 95%! thats crazy its sold out nonstop and it went down to 95%.

the disney shows didn't gross what they normally do. mary poppins at 47%.

spamalot at 41%.


i guess this proves that it isn't summer anymore. some houses will soon be open.

#13

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:26pm

HAIRSPRAY, GREASE, SPRING AWAKENING, BLONDE, SPAMALOT, POPPINS, MERMAID, TOS, XANADU, AVE Q: ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch.

#14

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:28pm

And so the after Labor Day slump begins! How long before TOS posts closing notices?

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:28pm

Equus only had two performances though.

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:30pm

Exactly. Look at the Average Ticket Price: combined with its attendance record, EQUUS did amazingly well.

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

#17

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:30pm

Holy ****! Lets see the nay sayers deny that WSS gets the palace now. [tos] I give you my deepest sympathy. I say expect it tomorrow morning.

#18

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:33pm

Is it a telling sign that [tos], which has had practically every performance available on TDF, now isn't listed at all? Could a closing notice be imminent?

#19

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:34pm

I believe this happens every single year. Nothing "happened," they are just regular numbers for the post-Labor Day weekend week.
And how neat is it that GYPSY made more money than GREASE? That's when you know which show is supported by tourists and which one isn't...or rather what kind of tourists. Same with MARY POPPINS, a 40-odd percent drop is insane.
I wonder which ones will recover and which ones won't. I'm particular interested to see how LEGALLY BLONDE and TALE OF TWO CITIES fare after the blow they took this week...unlike GREASE, MARY POPPINS, PHANTOM, and SPAMALOT, they don't have a lot saved up to survive these kind of blows (especially with all the shows eying their theatres).

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:35pm

You can't say that these shows will close after one bad week. Look at the same week in past years. The drop off is very similar. The post-labor day week is one of the worst of the year.

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re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:37pm

Holy crap. Holy freaking crap. I seriously thought this was a joke when I first read it. Oh, my God.

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#22

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:40pm

goodness gracious,

very few survivors this week..

#23

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:50pm

The week after Labor Day is always an abyssmal week on Broadway, and it's going to continue to be extremely difficult for the next few weeks, but things will pick up again.

It's not at all surprising that Equus did so well. It's been so eagerly anticipated, the cast is a huge draw, and it started on a weekend. The real test will be if it can keep up the high numbers after a full week. I'm hoping so!

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#24

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:50pm

oh ur right givemevoice, i totally did not see EQUUS only had 2 perf. in that case, it is doing GREAT!

#25

re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:51pm

you know it was a bad week when Wicked & Jersey Boys didn't sellout. OUCH!!! I need [tos] to stay open one more week as I have tickets for Sept. 18.

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