how much money did GHD lose?

[massofmen]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 11:08am

17.5 million? the whole investment? 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 11:32am

oooo-weee thats a lot of money-a lot to recoup from tour and another london run

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 11:32am

depends on the nut obviously, and I don't know what that is estimated to be. what I do know is that the average net gross is around $675k which seems pretty close to what the nut might be. But not much would have been returned even if the nut is considerably less: at $600k, the show would have left $16.5mil unrecouped. 

[Laurapattifan]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 11:39am

HogansHero said: "depends on the nut obviously, and I don't know what that is estimated to be. what I do know is that the average net gross is around $675k which seems pretty close to what the nut might be. But not much would have been returned even if the nut is considerably less: at $600k, the showwould have left $16.5mil unrecouped."

Wasn't their nut around $800k?

[Rainah]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 11:41am

probably not too far off from the whole thing. They lost a ridiculous amount of money

[Wick3]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 12:11pm

Really unfortunate to hear. I recall its London run last year was sold out sold out. Perhaps it is just timing as one of the causes for its demise? I recall wondering a year ago if this show would open on Groundhog Day itself.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 12:13pm

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 1:13pm

Like, at LEAST a dollar.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 2:11pm

I would imagine that they lost the entire investment, or close to it.

Seems like they really busted a nut. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 2:14pm

TheGingerBreadMan said: "Seems like they really busted a nut."

[devonian.t]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 3:09pm

And didn't Minchin and Warchus put a lot of their Matilda earnings into it?

[Valentina3]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 3:53pm

They had a "successful" London run. That had to have brought in some seed money for the Broadway production, right? Also, they will be able to use a significant part of the set for the touring production so there's at some money to be saved that way. Let's hope the investors make some of the money back.

Updated On: 9/17/17 at 03:53 PM

[Jarethan]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 6:25pm

I doubt that set can tour.  Too complicated.  Think of all the problems they had at the beginning.  Cant deal with that every time they move to a new city.

I think one of the reasons is what I have been saying for awhile.  You open everything at once, i.e., mid-March to late April, and a lot of stuff is going to get lost in the shuffle.  Look at the non-musicals.  All opened at once, creating an issue for the average theatre-goer who would attend a number of them over the course of the season...not 6 or 7 weeks.  Net result: they all failed.

 

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/17/17 at 6:27pm

It's coming back to the UK.