The Grosses Are In

[Ruffian]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 4:20pm

Suffering

Prymate
Frozen (nooooooooooooo)

Wonderful Town
Little Shop
Match

Some worse than others, check it out

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 4:28pm

PRYMATE had a whopping 13% attendance last week (up from 8.3% the week before), so they'd better pray for some major reviews tomorrow or they're history.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 4:34pm

Wow the grosses are pretty low. The only shows to get 100% or over are Wicked and Lion King. which isnot a surprised. But, most of the shows are very low.....i wonder why. They seem worse than last weeks.

[moljul]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 4:56pm

I think Frozen is officially opening tonight so that might account for the low grosses.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:01pm

Try lowering ticket prices so the average person can attend the theater without wondering if they'll be able to make rent the next month. Maybe than they'll get a higher attendance.
-Matt

[Ruffian]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:02pm

Sadly, true

I sold a Kidney for my TABOO habit

[Plum]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:08pm

Try changing the entire economics of Broadway first. Most shows don't make back their investments, high ticket prices or not.

[mominator]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:21pm

Some of these numbers are quite scary! Wonderful Town is so sweet I hope it makes it through the Summer
Barbara

[DSTSocrates]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:25pm

The ticket prices have a vice grip on my purse.

[mominator]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 5:29pm

TKTS booth is a great thing as are the coupons. Getting lucky with $20 rush tickets only way to go!
Barbara

[Benzy92]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 6:22pm

If Little Shop is snubbed a nomination for Best Revival, its done.

[cmleidi]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 6:30pm

My sister complained that she couldn't afford to pay (full price) for Broadway shows, but I calculated that if she stopped smoking and using the vending machine every day, she could afford to buy fifteen full-price tickets to musicals.

[TG4802]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 6:37pm

Plum,
Please elaborate. I'm curious what facets of Broadway economics you suggest could change the current profitability, (25% higher than this time last year) or lack of, that could make Broadway more accessible.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 6:46pm

Perhaps if all the Rentheads and the kids that see Wicked 48 times, would try and expand their horizons and broaden their minds, the grosses for GOOD shows, such as Frozen, wouldn't suffer. It's not the ticket prices, it's the audiences B'way, for the most part, panders to. I was not a big fan of Caroline or Change but it does breath some intelligence into the world of musical theater. And for that alone, I'm grateful.

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 7:18pm

rent is a good show.

i realize that it is frustrating that these people spend all of their time in this one theater, but that doesnt decrease the quality of the show.

you may not like it, but besides being absolutly brilliant, rent has gotten a lot of young newcomers on their feet, and that could not have done that without the rentheads.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 7:33pm

To Matt G

Agree with you 100 %

[Plum]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 7:43pm

Hear hear, Al Dente.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/4/04 at 8:52pm

BRAVO ALDENTE! BRAVO! ( Or Brava. But I just assumed)

[Al Dente]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 9:25am

Thank you DAME and PLUM, and you were right with Bravo. Also, Rent was once, a very long time ago, a great show but hardly worth people going into debt to afford their *habit*.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 11:59am

Whats the demographic of rent heads?

[Al Dente]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 12:09pm

Obviously, very young. Which does not excuse anything. Meanwhile, Frozen received raves across the board.

[mominator]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 12:16pm

Al Dente I must also add my bravos as well!! There is somuch more out there! I am going to insert my plug for "Intimate Apparel" here. A wonderful drama at the Laura Pels'
Barbara

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 12:16pm

A lot of Rent Heads moved on to JEKYL & HYDE and than to AIDA than ROCKY HORROR than TABOO and now to WICKED. They all must around 40 years old now.

Rent used to be a great show. But in my opinion most of the magic left with the original cast. The show just doesn't have it anymore, no matter how many Spice Girls you throw in there which is a real shame because the music is still some of the best ever heard on the stage.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 12:17pm

Rent has definitely just become a tourist trap.

[Ruffian]

Posted: 5/5/04 at 12:19pm

Never a RENTHEAD but Forever a TABOO-FREAK

Will be seeing FROZEN next week