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#8

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:15pm

And they did it without cheating...Wicked has a few VIP seats, but nowhere as to what The Producers was selling back in the Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick days, and neither show cheats like Spamalot, with a large percentage of the orchestra being sold at over $300.00. With Wicked in a much larger theatre, it shows how much proce gouging was going on at the St. James.
#9

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:25pm

It has to be the ticket raise. This figure is the amout of money they sold for 8 performances right? It has nothing to do with advance seats, I assume. So Wicked has been playing at 100 percent for a long time, and mostly making the same money. It can't sell over 100 percent, since they don't do standing room, so this bounce must have to do with the ticket price going up.
#10

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:39pm

I agree with BobbyBubby! There is no doubt that the ticket increase is involved in this. $10 more a ticket times the # of seats to fill is $144,720. Now of course not everyone probably paid the extra ten dollars, but if its been sold out forever than this is definitely a factor!
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
#13

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:39pm

Regardless of gross revenues - you can't argue the fact that WICKED is selling more seats than The Producers and has since it opened (not total since it's been running, but on a daily/weekly basis).

Selling out the Gershwin regularly hasn't been that common prior to WICKED for quite awhile, no?

So I guess my "point" is that $$ aside, WICKED is still doing something noteworthy in regards to sales.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#15

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:24pm

This is sorta good news, and sorta bad news.

good news: congrats to wicked! always fun to see records broken!

bad news: does this mean ticket prices are going to continue to rise like this? It's obvious that the ticket price raise did this, wicked has sold out practically every night, adn the only way it gould go higher was to raise prices.

Dark day for us poor college student broadway fans.
#18

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:50pm

Well, the AVERAGE ticket price for the week was $111.31, which is more than the supposed top price of $110. So the premium seating must have something to do with it.
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#20

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 7:53pm

Question: Was the ticked price hike due to the holiday season, or is it a permanent increase?

Have any other shows raised their prices recently?

Side note: I've always said that the real "star" of this show is the story. I think this show will continue to sell very well for a long time.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 1/3/06 at 07:53 PM

#24

re: Wicked Has Highest Box Office Gross for Any Show in History - $1,610,93

Posted: 1/3/06 at 8:06pm

A lot of shows raised their price to $110, and also saw increases. But I think next week the grosses will be back into the normal 1.3 mil range. I think they might have raised the price of all seats $10 for the holidays? Like rear mezzanine might have been $60 instead of $50, but I'm not sure. I think also all performances premium seats might have been $300 instead of weeknights at $250. But I might be making this all up :)

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