#26
Posted: 6/8/06 at 5:31pm
It seems unlikely that Jersey Boys is completely sold out for the next two months since it's played few, if any, sold-out weeks thus far, though it's come extremely close. This probably has to do with the fact that some of the seats are partial view. I'm told that some of them are very partial view. So much so that they are basically not sellable. The producers might as well just remove a few seats that are really bad and then they can actually post 100-percent attendance.
Anyway, a show's future grosses have no bearing on whether it has already recouped. Jersey Boys will undoubtedly recoup but it does take time. There was a time when most musicals could recoup in six months of full houses, but now it usually takes longer. Sometimes a lot longer. Jersey Boys is not in a theatre with a particularly large number of seats so even with near-capacity houses it takes a while for the weekly profits to add up to return of the investment.
I should add that I don't know definitively know that the show hasn't yet recouped. But most shows do announce when they recoup, and unless I missed it, Jersey Boys has made no such announcement.
Btw, back in the '40s, I believe that As the Girls Go and the 1946 revival of Show Boat were the first shows to run a year or so without recouping. There may not have been any shows that managed that unfortunate feat in the '50s, but (as frontrowcentre said) in the '60s several shows managed to run 500 or more performances without recouping. And it's just gotten worse since.
Anyway, a show's future grosses have no bearing on whether it has already recouped. Jersey Boys will undoubtedly recoup but it does take time. There was a time when most musicals could recoup in six months of full houses, but now it usually takes longer. Sometimes a lot longer. Jersey Boys is not in a theatre with a particularly large number of seats so even with near-capacity houses it takes a while for the weekly profits to add up to return of the investment.
I should add that I don't know definitively know that the show hasn't yet recouped. But most shows do announce when they recoup, and unless I missed it, Jersey Boys has made no such announcement.
Btw, back in the '40s, I believe that As the Girls Go and the 1946 revival of Show Boat were the first shows to run a year or so without recouping. There may not have been any shows that managed that unfortunate feat in the '50s, but (as frontrowcentre said) in the '60s several shows managed to run 500 or more performances without recouping. And it's just gotten worse since.
