This week's Box Office Report

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:07pm

Where is it?
Updated On: 11/14/05 at 08:07 PM

[RadioTV2]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:13pm

Variety came out with these numbers:
Jersey Boys- $667,407
Woman in White- $778,772
Sweeney Todd- $568,275
Beauty and the Beast- $581,202
The Color Purple- $499,571 (6 Preview Perfs)
Fiddler on the Roof- $559,107
Rent-$521,931
Sweet Charity- $509,566
Hairspray- $658,910
Chicago- $548,667
Movin' Out- $536,543
Latinologues- $86,739
In My Life- $182,699



Full Variety Article with BO Report

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:34pm

Spank you kindly.

[Lome2]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:42pm

*edited*
Sorry

Playbill report
Updated On: 11/15/05 at 08:42 PM

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 8:42pm

That's last week.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:00pm

First two paragraph's of Variety's report for the week of November 7-13:

"Broadway biz usually picks up around this time of year, as sales pull out of the typically slow sessions of early fall, and this year was no exception. For the week ending Nov. 13, overall grosses grew to $17,742,402, up a hefty $2,483,563 from the previous week.

Biggest winner was "Jersey Boys" ($667,407), rising $244,669 in the wake of strong reviews (and despite the fact that the week included two heavily comped press perfs). Critics also lavished praise on "Sweeney Todd" ($568,275), but that show bumped up a somewhat less stellar $125,277."

Updated On: 11/14/05 at 09:00 PM

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:03pm

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it's a good time for Broadway.

I'm more interested to see the actual attendance percentage of audience members than the "weekly gross". Those numbers are nice but it's more important to see how many people are attending.

[musiclover]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:08pm

Variety reports Color Purple tickets sales soar while still in previews:

"How much is an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey worth on Broadway? So far, about a couple million.

Winfrey, one of the producers of the new tuner "The Color Purple," featured the production on her talkshow Friday, and sources familiar with "Purple" B.O. say that since the segment aired, single ticket sales have topped $1 million and group sales have come in between $750,000 and $1 million.

That puts the advance for the $10 million show, set to open Dec. 1, at a respectable, if not astonishing, $6 million.

And more sales could be on the way: Scott Mallalieu, prexy of Group Sales Box Office, said that on his org's Web site, requests for group sales info about the show have more than quadrupled."


Full Variety Article

[musiclover]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:12pm

Variety also reports that Jersey Boys' tickets are on fire as well. Nice to see so many people going to the theater!

[Kevo711]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:20pm

I went to buy The Color Purple tickets and was hoping to bring someone along, but there was only ONE ticket left in the whole place for the sat. mattinee on the 26! Thankfully, i bought it in time!

[jo]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:34pm

Woman in White, despite supposedly heavy discounting, is not doing too badly -- $ 778 k for 8 shows comes out to $ 97 K per performance.

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:35pm

Very happy for them. All of this good news is really building my expectations!