Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/21/14

[Rob]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:25pm

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/21/2014 in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

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Up for the week by attendance was: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (16.1%), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (5.0%), LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL (4.0%), THE COUNTRY HOUSE (1.7%), IT'S ONLY A PLAY (0.6%), A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (0.5%), BEAUTIFUL (0.5%), THE LION KING (0.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: MATILDA (-19.8%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (-18.7%), LES MISÉRABLES (-17.9%), CHICAGO (-15.7%), PIPPIN (-15.3%), ONCE (-12.9%), CINDERELLA (-12.6%), ROCK OF AGES (-11.6%), WICKED (-11.5%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-10.6%), MAMMA MIA! (-8.2%), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (-7.6%), CABARET (-5.2%), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (-4.1%), JERSEY BOYS (-2.6%), LOVE LETTERS (-1.1%), IF/THEN (-1.1%), ALADDIN (-1.0%), KINKY BOOTS (-0.7%),

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[ljay889]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:29pm

Ouch, Matilda.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:29pm

^ Also, ouch 'Cinderella' and 'Les Miserables'.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:30pm

Safe to say Keke and Sherri aren't helping Cinderella.

[NewSynchopation]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:35pm

Both ONCE and CINDERELLA dropped below the dreaded 60% Mark and LOVE LETTERS barely made over $100,000. Rough week for all.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 3:40pm

Nice to see On the Town starting off well. Let's see how long it can maintain it though.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 4:13pm

Surprised Love Letters isn't selling better. But let's be honest. That show must cost $10 to run.

[DAME]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 4:25pm

I can't understand why CINDERELLA keeps going. They must be hemorrhaging money. And hanging on till Nene Leakes takes over is stupid. She is not going to bring them in either.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 4:29pm

Cinderella should really call it quits early. No need for them to hang on until January. RippedMan, I think Mia & Brian aren't necessarily a pair that will sell tickets. If they hang on for Candice Bergen and Alan Alda, that might sell better.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 4:45pm

I think the inherent issue with LOVE LETTERS is that people will be seeing it more for the performers than the play. This means if less desirable actors are in then you won't have the audience. Mia Farrow is a great actress but I don't see her setting the box office ablaze. Ditto with Dennehy (minus the claim that he's a great actor).

[Auggie27]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 5:38pm

I'll eat these words if the other stars pull sales, but I've always thought this "Love Letters" revival was a strange idea for 2014. It's still two actors reading. Everyone at these boards screams "Stop! No one cares once it begins! No one even notices they're on book! It's magic!" Well, magic may happen there 8 times a week, but it's not necessarily in the eyes and heads of the B'way audience, ever more careful with their dollars. It's two people reading. Unless they are Taylor and Burton, Olivier and Leigh, Pitt and Jolie, I can't see people going "oooh, stars in Love Letters!" Again, if it leaps forward with any of others -- say, Rigg (the only one I'd pay to see) -- I'll chew down these pragmatic sentiments.

Updated On: 9/22/14 at 05:38 PM

[David2]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 6:48pm

Wow BEAUTIFUL and A GENTLEMANS GUIDE are staying strong... Wonder what will happen when Jessie leaves Beautiful

[mikem]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 7:05pm

A little odd that the Love Letters producers chose to start with the cast that has probably the least box office pull. I wonder if they should have just started a month later with Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 7:11pm

"Wow BEAUTIFUL and A GENTLEMANS GUIDE are staying strong... Wonder what will happen when Jessie leaves Beautiful"

I think the show will continue to sell the same after Mueller leaves. Most people are going for the Carole King music and story, not Mueller.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 7:27pm

^ Why? If the producers of Love Letters have the money, why not get word-of-mouth stirring to catch some attention and then when people look into it they'll find out about all these names coming into it and purchase their tickets when they want to go. They're doing it right, in my opinion.

I agree though, that in 2014, they should have at least tried for some more interesting names to make the run even longer and more successful. The lineup already is great but some bigger names may have given them a wider draw.

Updated On: 9/22/14 at 07:27 PM

[ACL2006]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 9:09pm

The Lyric holds 1,874. It was a first preview likely heavily comped. I doubt even with rave reviews they'll come close to filling it. They should be thankful if they average 1,300/performance.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 9/22/14 at 10:17pm

I don't think it's fair to doom every single thing that comes into this theatre. Sure, it's big... but people are so quick to assume. Why don't we let it get through its first week of PREVIEWS before we come to that conclusion.

Updated On: 9/22/14 at 10:17 PM

[Sondheim_Geek]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 12:49am

Almost makes you wonder what the cost to ATG would be to split it in two...