Hello Dolly breaks first day ticket sales record

[bud2]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 8:41am

http://www.playbill.com/article/ticket-sales-for-bette-midler-hello-dolly-break-broadway-record

[fb1123]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 8:49am

With ticket prices always increasing, it would be more interesting to know how many tickets were sold rather than the one day gross.

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 9:55am

With a guesstimated average price of $200 per ticket, they probably sold 40-50,000 tickets (give or take) over a span of about 220 performances/38 weeks that are currently listed. (Too early in the morning to do the exact math right now.)

That said...while the March through May perfs may be looking full, there should be plenty of availability for next summer and fall. (Though this press release probably helped them sell another million or more dollars worth of tix.)

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 10:22am

It does get tiring to hear about box office records/house records/ etc when it's 99% ticket price increases. You can say Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, but Gone with the Wind technically sold more tickets, just at a dime each.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 12:02pm

Go Bette!

[SFFrontRow]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 4:51pm

And if anyone saw the post I added a few days ago, the article states that Ms Midler will be in ALL performances that are currently on sale. WHEW. So, insurance for those of us who purchased matinees (especially Wednesdays).

I got my Row L seat 2 - not as close as I wanted, but no BIG HEADS in front of my 5'7" frame. YAY.'

One other aside, nothing was said of the number of "premium" seats at higher prices. They seemed to be all over the map on that (although only about 3 seats were available for each performance I looked at for a week's time. And NONE of those seats were in mezzanine or balcony - there were NONE available.

[binau]

Posted: 9/20/16 at 4:57pm

nasty_khakis said: "It does get tiring to hear about box office records/house records/ etc when it's 99% ticket price increases. You can say Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, but Gone with the Wind technically sold more tickets, just at a dime each.

 

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Of of course there is an important factor but I also get tired of hearing this because the fact that people are willing to pay those prices means something too. If the only key to success on Broadway was setting high prices it would be the easiest investment opportunity in the world.