Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/30/2015 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.
WOW for ON THE TOWN!! If only they could have got Copeland for a longer run they might have had the chances to break even. I hope to see the show one last time tomorrow night.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Ill echo everyone else in saying that I'm thrilled On the Town can finally be playing to great numbers. I did see articles all over the place about Misty Copeland's Broadway debut, so I guess it worked! Good on them for getting to end the show on a high note.
Curious if anyone was out of The King and I this week. Not that their numbers are bad, but a decline of about $100,000 is a bit odd to me.
I don't believe the grosses for Finding Neverland. The publicity dep't is trying to keep the show relevant by posting over 1 million .........uh uh. And the pitiful online commercial praises the show for receiving 4 Broadway.com audience awards!!!! If it is above 1 million next week- then that is proof that they aren't reporting the true grosses. I'll eat my playbill if I am wrong.
"WHOA. I don't follow ballet. Misty Copeland is that huge of a draw?"
I don't know if she's that popular with ballet fans. But for a ballerina, she's pretty well known. She's done the talk show circuit and gotten endorsements and press that would expose her to an audience outside of typical theatre fans and ballet fans.
ljay, Copeland is the biggest rising star in the ballet world and she is easily the most exciting dancer to come along in a while. 60 Minutes recently did a piece on her- track it down if you're interested in finding out more. She come across as instantly likable and down-to-earth, yet when she steps on stage she's a firecracker. If you had to compare her to a theater actress, I guess she would be like Sutton Foster bursting onto the scene with Millie.
I really had no plans to go back to OTT until her casting was announced. I promptly called up a friend to say, "We're going. Let's buy tickets now!"
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
evic said: "I don't believe the grosses for Finding Neverland. The publicity dep't is trying to keep the show relevant by posting over 1 million .........uh uh. And the pitiful online commercial praises the show for receiving 4 Broadway.com audience awards!!!! If it is above 1 million next week- then that is proof that they aren't reporting the true grosses. I'll eat my playbill if I am wrong."
Sorry to break the news to you, but the "publicity department" does not have anything to do with the reporting of grosses. That's the box office treasurer's job, and s/he does not even work for the production. What you would be saying (if you knew what you were talking about) is that the box office treasurer is committing fraud, which if true would land him or her in the pokey (and obviously end his or her career). The grosses are the grosses. Bodies in seats are bodies in seats. Sometimes we have to believe things we don like. Because they are true.
No one was out of King and I this past week so I'm not sure why the decline . I saw it this past weekend and the loge was half empty. However, Kelli is missing 3 shows this weekend so the grosses should be lower for next week!
I saw the show Saturday night (*barf*), and the mezzanine was barely half full. Didn't get a look at the orchestra, though.
Although tickets are pretty expensive for that show, at the cheapest being $59 for a rear mezz seat or $37 for very minimal amount of partial view tickets.
I'm kinda worried for Curious Incident (yes, i know my username has to do with the show but i couldn't think of anything better) because their grosses seem to be getting lower and lower by the week...
curiousincident said: "I'm kinda worried for Curious Incident (yes, i know my username has to do with the show but i couldn't think of anything better) because their grosses seem to be getting lower and lower by the week...
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Didn't they recoup in four months?
As for Copeland, I think it would be fair to say she is to ballet as Tiger Woods was to golf, in revitalizing public/young (and minority) interest, though I don't follow either of those things.