Has Tarzan recouped?

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 6:11pm

This may be a dumb question, but has Tarzan earned back its initial investment yet? Is it a hit, financially speaking, yet?

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 6:16pm

It's usually announced on Playbill.com & co. when shows do, and I don't remember seeing anything about Tarzan yet.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:31pm

DISNEY does not reveal such info, but if you look at the weekly grosses you could tell that not only has it not re-couped it continually loses money.
The nut is projected to be between $600,000 and $700,000 and the intial investment over 20 million, including workshops in South America.
Do the Math.

[BroadwayBound86]

Posted: 5/11/07 at 4:53pm

We'll see what happens. All the executives were at the show last night along with Phil Collins. They are making changes to the show, bringing over material from the new Holland production. That may help....it may not. Only time can tell. But this is Disney and they can afford to keep the show running without it making too much. I guess we'll see where summer tourism brings it.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/11/07 at 5:03pm

Unless they heavily market these new changes being put into the show, thus creating another buzz for it...I highly doubt the general public will care about any changes done to the show.

As it now stands -- they don't care about TARZAN being on Broadway, so giving it new buzz especially positive buzz, is it's only hope.

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 5/11/07 at 5:11pm

I'm still waiting to hear if Lion King has recouped. (No I'm not kidding!)

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/11/07 at 5:13pm

Disney doesn't release such info, but at this point I'm sure it has.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/11/07 at 5:19pm

I highly doubt it, I think the show has only broke even about a dozen weeks. According to Riedel the weekly nut is somewhere along $700,000 I believe and it can rarely do more than that.
Truth is audiences aren't buying it and it takes more than the Disney name to sell a show. There's a reason LION KING keeps making millions and TARZAN is struggling at the B.O...quality. (And I really dislike LION KING but admit Julie Taymor's vision is impressive)