Hollywood Reporter: HAMILTON revenue analysis

Cool, thanks for sharing.

As usual, Jorge didn't even read the article.

As per the article:

As for Hamilton, those who sunk money into Lin-Manuel Miranda's innovative chronicle of America's first Treasury secretary reportedly already have been made whole.

In other words investors in the show have recouped their money, and the show hasn't even been running a year on Broadway.

As per the article:

Lin-Manuel makes roughly 105,000 dollars A WEEK in royalties - - - that's not including his salary for starring in the show itself. That's a nice chunk of change right there. The man makes more IN A WEEK than most people make IN A YEAR.

Homeboy has got it made.

Updated On: 4/6/16 at 11:18 AM

As per the article:

After royalties are paid, the remainder — around $600,000 a week — returns to the investors until their $12.5 million capitalization is fully recouped. That apparently has happened, according to a March report on the website Broadway Journal (producers have not confirmed it).



Nowhere in that sentence does the word "reportedly" appear, It just states that producers have not confirmed it.



No matter how you slice it, there is one thing that is indisputable: HAMILTON is making money and investors will see (or have already seen) a 100% return on their investment.

Updated On: 4/6/16 at 11:27 AM

neon, it's called math. they obviously chose not to make an official recoupment announcement-there is no reason they need to. the source said the show had recouped (which was not news for the same reason), not that there had been a distribution of the capitalization. An educated guess would be that there has been, because there is far more than that available for the production's additional (and substantial) capital needs.

Broadway Forever2 said: " I'm confused it said at first he makes 105k in royalties but then later it says that the shows massive success makes it so he would have upped it to 160 k either way that a lot. More than a lot make in a year lmao."

No, what it says is that the royalty pool, which would have resulted in the higher number, was NOT implemented.

"Also is this all guestimation? I mean they don't REALLY KNOW. "

The article was written based on the offering papers. The only inexactitude (and it is based on info that has been made public by the production) is the approximate nut.

"I wonder how much Ron Chernow gets paid. "

Based on LMM's royalty I would estimate around 1%.



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I wonder if the production team is offering the ensemble rates more than the equity minimum. Doesn't wicked do that?

As originators of the show, they were all given bonuses last fall; if memory serves, $35,000 was the figure quoted.

CarlosAlberto said: " Nowhere in that sentence does the word "reportedly" appear, It just states that producers have not confirmed it."

"As for Hamilton, those who sunk money into Lin-Manuel Miranda's innovative chronicle of America's first Treasury secretary reportedly already have been made whole. "


That's what I was talking about. Everyone calm down.

I'm well aware of math and recoupment, but thanks for talking down to me. My point was literally just that they have not made an official announcement.

HogansHero said: "neon, it's all good. I think you can go back and reread #7 and see why folks might reasonably think you were saying something other than what you intended.



^ ^ ^ Yes basically this and no one was talking down to you neon.

I was just clarifying what I was quoting versus how you responded. Next time do yourself a favor and write the quote you're referring to in your post to avoid any misunderstandings, again not talking down to you, just giving you some advice.

Updated On: 4/6/16 at 01:14 PM

Regarding the cast, from the NYT's recent article on Jeffrey Seller:

Last fall, it was reported that members of the cast asked Seller for a share of the gross, though they are not owed that by contract. “They are the ones bringing this show to life,” he told me. “It was a powerful argument they made; it was gut-­wrenching for me, and I took it seriously.” (He would not give specifics but said that he had reached an agreement and that the matter was resolved, at least for now.) Most cast members are working on 52-week contracts, which began July 13, the first day of Broadway previews, and those who intend to stay will soon be negotiating new deals.

I doubt there are many, if any, members of that ensemble pulling in less than 2k weekly.

Obviously not the numbers LMM is pulling in- as creator and star- but also nothing to scoff at.