Broadway Grosses w/e 5/6/2018: What did the Tony nominations do to the grosses?

The answer?

Not much.

The irony of this time of year, when we’re celebrating the best of the best in our industry, is that there aren’t a lot of folks buying Broadway tickets.

That’s why grosses fell 5% last week, despite the massive amounts of press that the nominated shows received.

Does that mean that people didn’t buy tickets for the shows that got lots of ‘award kudos’?  Not on your life.  They absolutely did buy tickets . . . they just bought them for future performances.

We don’t publish “wraps” in our business (a “wrap” is a show’s daily take for ANY performance on sale), but I’d bet money that if we did, they would have been up from the previous week.

Instead, we’ll have to deal with the bit of our expected seasonal decline this time of year.

And we’ll dream of the golden summer months to come.

Here are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 6, 2018:

Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Capacity AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL $469,532.65 5,294 63.39% $88.69
ALADDIN $1,342,282.50 13,491 97.65% $99.49
ANASTASIA $683,990.00 7,524 82.28% $90.91
ANGELS IN AMERICA $817,186.50 8,295 83.33% $98.52
BEAUTIFUL $670,118.90 6,420 78.22% $104.38
CAROUSEL $1,172,416.00 9,757 85.41% $120.16
CHICAGO $696,668.30 7,932 91.81% $87.83
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD $297,762.00 5,634 70.14% $52.85
COME FROM AWAY $1,180,366.00 8,495 101.52% $138.95
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $1,656,795.40 7,972 101.27% $207.83
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE $677,260.50 7,366 56.63% $91.94
FROZEN $1,689,302.00 13,102 97.49% $128.93
HAMILTON $3,101,303.00 10,757 101.79% $288.31
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO $2,104,904.50 12,976 100.00% $162.22
HELLO, DOLLY! $939,154.40 9,876 85.37% $95.09
KINKY BOOTS $684,451.50 8,109 71.18% $84.41
LOBBY HERO $526,621.50 4,515 97.14% $116.64
MEAN GIRLS $1,461,048.60 9,874 100.76% $147.97
MY FAIR LADY $1,040,959.00 8,552 100.00% $121.72
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND $435,430.06 4,904 88.07% $88.79
SAINT JOAN $207,881.10 3,951 76.33% $52.61
SCHOOL OF ROCK $626,137.72 7,474 61.34% $83.78
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS $565,662.00 9,308 72.27% $60.77
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY $1,928,605.00 3,792 100.00% $508.60
SUMMER $1,053,826.00 9,830 83.59% $107.21
THE BAND’S VISIT $790,939.86 7,819 94.07% $101.16
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,099,943.50 8,563 102.23% $128.45
THE BOYS IN THE BAND $1,008,097.00 6,018 97.19% $167.51
THE ICEMAN COMETH $1,108,336.40 7,221 97.87% $153.49
THE LION KING $2,116,907.00 13,520 99.65% $156.58
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $1,035,350.20 11,940 92.99% $86.71
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $241,751.16 3,647 53.38% $66.29
THREE TALL WOMEN $908,888.74 6,296 100.00% $144.36
TRAVESTIES $378,743.10 4,519 77.70% $83.81
WAITRESS $782,115.70 6,821 81.59% $114.66
WICKED $1,493,289.00 13,063 90.36% $114.31
TOTALS: $36,994,026.79 294,627 87.06% $126.28
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON $4,131,106.88      
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON 12.57 %      

 

 

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