Broadway Grosses w/e 7/2/2017 – A star goes on vacation, and takes 1.37mm with her.
I don’t know what’s more amazing . . . that Bette Midler took a vacation or that Hello, Dolly! dropped $1.37 million in ticket sales?
Or that Bette Midler took a vacation and Hello, Dolly! dropped $1.37 million in ticket sales . . . and it still did $937k!
That $1.37mm that vanished from the market is like the street losing an entire show, which is one of the reasons the street was down 9% from the week before. That, plus the loss of Sunset Boulevard (another diva that was bringing in the dollars) made the week look a lot worse than it was. Because, individually, many shows were up, including plays like Oslo and 1984 (could the conventional wisdom of summer time not being a time for plays finally be debunked?).
So I wouldn’t be so worried about any kind of summer time slump…we just don’t want Dolly to ever go away again.
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| 1984 | $421,364.08 | 6,617 | 85.27% | $63.68 |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $697,208.69 | 7,527 | 90.12% | $92.63 |
| A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 | $476,124.00 | 5,549 | 89.50% | $85.80 |
| ALADDIN | $1,573,469.50 | 13,446 | 97.32% | $117.02 |
| ANASTASIA | $1,112,035.34 | 9,127 | 99.81% | $121.84 |
| BANDSTAND | $584,430.15 | 7,107 | 86.00% | $82.23 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $711,344.98 | 6,512 | 79.34% | $109.24 |
| CATS | $791,755.50 | 9,206 | 83.69% | $86.00 |
| CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY | $1,178,785.30 | 11,187 | 93.47% | $105.37 |
| CHICAGO | $613,735.95 | 7,329 | 84.83% | $83.74 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,249,633.72 | 8,532 | 101.96% | $146.46 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,342,157.13 | 7,990 | 101.50% | $167.98 |
| GROUNDHOG DAY | $743,977.25 | 7,967 | 81.10% | $93.38 |
| HAMILTON | $3,053,850.00 | 10,753 | 101.75% | $284.00 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $936,602.58 | 8,810 | 76.16% | $106.31 |
| INDECENT | $313,029.00 | 5,794 | 67.50% | $54.03 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $1,283,363.85 | 11,077 | 97.23% | $115.86 |
| MARVIN’S ROOM | $206,242.30 | 4,935 | 84.04% | $41.79 |
| MISS SAIGON | $779,554.35 | 9,943 | 71.55% | $78.40 |
| NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 | $1,409,876.92 | 9,068 | 99.60% | $155.48 |
| ON YOUR FEET! | $620,672.80 | 7,766 | 59.70% | $79.92 |
| OSLO | $758,636.50 | 7,941 | 94.81% | $95.53 |
| PRESENT LAUGHTER | $910,174.40 | 9,274 | 82.98% | $98.14 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $1,072,164.20 | 11,120 | 91.27% | $96.42 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,238,719.00 | 8,747 | 102.57% | $141.62 |
| THE LION KING | $2,423,941.00 | 15,251 | 99.91% | $158.94 |
| THE LITTLE FOXES | $609,488.30 | 5,190 | 99.81% | $117.44 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,065,885.18 | 11,801 | 91.91% | $90.32 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $364,942.75 | 5,580 | 81.67% | $65.40 |
| WAITRESS | $743,521.40 | 7,547 | 90.28% | $98.52 |
| WAR PAINT | $678,717.40 | 7,698 | 82.38% | $88.17 |
| WICKED | $2,000,408.00 | 15,856 | 97.50% | $126.16 |
| Totals | $31,965,811.52 | 282,247 | 88.95% | $107.74 |
| +/- This Week Last Season | +$5,932,162.73 | |||
| Percentage +/- This Week Last Season | +22.78% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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