Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 2/26

[Rob]

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 2/26/2012 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.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[ChenoKahn]

Meh. Pretty average week.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

"Chicago" is holding its own. Sometimes, this show reminds me of Cher. It's been around for a while and is a survivor. from Roman in Austin, Texas (visiting NYC from March 10-13, 2012)
seeing: (maybe) Other Desert Cities, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago and the first preview of Evita.

[massofmen]

a lot of these shows are going to be in for a rude awakening when Ghost, Leap of faith, Peter and the star catchers, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Once, and nice work if you can get it open.

Sister act, Godspell,and prsicilla have been floating under a lucky star that there haven't been the usual amount of musicals on broadway this past winter. I think they are about to get slaughtered as there will be 5 BIG musicals about to open looking at roughly the same demographic they have been selling to. Good Luck.

[dshnookie]

^ here's hoping Once has some long legs on Broadway!

[ACL2006]

^same here. a few Tony awards would really be nice, too.

[willep]

^^agreed!

[PlayItAgain]

@massofmen why so negative?

Also apparently Death of a Salesman broke the barrymore house record.... really? it wasn't even 100% sold out last week....

[booth0882]

How to Succeed FINALLY picked back up some. Anyone have a guess as to the running costs of the show right now? My guess is that this is the first week of the Jonas run that the show has turned a profit, and still only a small 20,000 or so one...

And good week for Anything Goes and Phantom. Chicago lost a bit of steam. But really aside from Venus, Sister Act, and Shatner, it was a pretty good week.

The question would be: How much will the producers let Sister Act run in the hole before it finally closes? And God Spell still isn't doing all that great, I would doubt that it will make it through the summer.

[massofmen]

i dont' think you should confuse negative with factual.

[PlayItAgain]

^ are you a psychic?

[HBP]

great jump for anything goes. did anything special happen this week? i know sutton isn't leaving until march...

[beautywickedlover]

Nice to see 'Mary Poppins' and 'Mamma Mia' have some good weeks.

[chrisampm2]

Booth0882,
I'm trying to understand your logic. You're saying it's a good week for Anything Goes and a marginally profitable one for How to Succeed. But How to Succeed made 100K more than Anything Goes. You think it costs that much more to run How to Succeed?

[booth0882]

Well, the hirschfeld holds about 400 more patrons than the Sondheim, so presumably the show was budgeted accordingly. The Sondheim is about 28% smaller than the hirscfeld, with similarly priced tickets (H2$ actually has tickets priced a hair higher, and has premium seats about 50$ higher). How to Succeed also has a slightly larger cast than Anything Goes (not including swings and standby's: 29 to 26). That would be my rational.

[rja16]

Also with Nick Jonas, you can assume he's being paid significantly more than Sutton Foster is. Add that to what @Booth0882 said, and you can see why H2$ would cost more

[chrisampm2]

The size of the house has relatively little to do with running costs. The productions themselves seem about the same size. I doubt three extra cast members, including the salary diff btw Jonas and Foster, cost 100K. Even if it did, why would the stat for one deserve a thumbs up and for the other merit a meh? If Jonas can keep that gross where it is, I imagine the producers will be happy.

[EponineAmneris]

I am always happy to see PHANTOM pull in roughly $1 million a week after 25 years and 10,000 plus perfromances!

[alterego]

Well, you must be one of the few here that feel that way.