Monday, August 4, 2008

Broadway Grosses for Last Week

When you see a show below 50% capacity, that's not a good sign. The ones I've seen are in bold. I'm seeing A Chorus Line Friday night. The 2nd column is the weekly gross, 3rd is the average ticket price and the last column is the percentage of seats filled.

A Catered Affair
$291,282 $55.28 70.6%
A Chorus Line
$505,730 $68.57 86.2%
August: Osage County
$550,495 $85.31 82.4%
Avenue Q
$317,522 $64.71 77.1%
Boeing-Boeing
$474,393 $66.04 83.4%
Chicago
$551,427 $69.47 91.9%
Cirque…Fantasy
$554,145 $56.36 70.6%
Grease
$682,087 $83.54 95.2%
Gypsy
$792,415 $73.69 78.7%
Hairspray
$713,123 $66.94 93.3%
In the Heights
$1,004,285 $94.19 99.2%
Jersey Boys
$1,129,029 $114.59 100.8%
Legally Blonde
$851,934 $67.70 93.0%
Mamma Mia!
$1,022,164 $83.80 101.8%
Mary Poppins
$977,652 $71.99 94.5%
Rent
$483,938 $65.96 77.7%
South Pacific
$905,905 $108.95 99.8%
Spamalot
$635,392 $66.65 82.7%
Spring Awakening
$463,224 $66.62 79.7%
The 39 Steps
$258,459 $55.91 73.4%
The Lion King
$1,324,314 $100.08 100.0%
The Little Mermaid
$1,153,710 $94.48 100.6%
The Phantom of the Opera
$915,177 $70.78 100.0%
Thurgood
$241,534 $59.52 65.0%
[title of show]
$162,682 $42.97 51.3%
Wicked
$1,522,686 $105.22 100.0%
Xanadu
$241,048 $68.50 73.8%

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wicked is here - palnning to head on to Melbourne to see it....... How can capacity be more that 100%

Kevin said...

Standing Room.