Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12

[Rob]

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 4/29/2012 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://broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

[fingerlakessinger]

Nice little jump for "Ghost." Very happy about that :)

[songanddanceman2]

Happy to see Ghost go up

Leap of Faith is dead, that gross wont even cover the cost of Raul's hair plugs

[Sauja]

Oof. Looks like a lot of shows could be throwing up closing notices in the coming weeks. Leap of Faith and Seminar look like they're in particular danger, but I'm surprised to see Streetcar and Peter and the Starcatcher posting such low gross percentages of potential.

Also looks as though The Lyons has the most to gain or lose by tomorrow's nominations. I'm really rooting for that little show!

[Princeton Returns]

How much roughly could Ghost be costing to run each week?

[fingerlakessinger]

I'm thinking the $500,000 to $600,000 range.

[blaxx]

Not in a trillion years can Ghost cost less than 600,000 a week.

[songanddanceman2]

Actually its running costs are around 550k a week according to someone who works high up on the show

[egghumor]

Even before seeing the grosses, I was surprised that LEAP didn't close yesterday. The AVERAGE ticket price paid for LEAP was $24! I usually don't pay much attention to that, but has it ever been so low for other shows?

[Mister Matt]

Leap of Faith, Magic/Bird, Don't Dress For Dinner, Seminar, The Lyons and Godspell are all in hot water. Peter and the Starcatcher and Streetcar need to find some traction. And How to Succeed should have done well enough to pull it through for another omnth or two, but they need to bring in the next big celebrity if they want to keep it going.

[Michael Bennett]

Don't Dress for Dinner is a subscriber based production. It would very unlikely post an early closing notice.

[macnyc]

Seems to me that revenue for Other Desert Cities has fallen off a lot. Any ideas why? Just because the show has been running for a while?

[Mister Matt]

Ah yes, I forgot about that Roundabout subscriber thingy.

[ACL2006]

Steady numbers for Sister Act, Once, Nice Work & Ghost. Ghost should at least stick around for the summer, regardless of Tony noms. Leap of Faith & Magic/Bird might be gone by Sunday. And How to Succeed looks like it'll close on July 1 as I would think they would have announced a replacement for Nick Jonas by now. I have to wonder if Anything Goes will extend again past September.

[massofmen]

ummm Ghost was only doing 7 performances..now they are doing 8. its not a jump. its adding the last show.

[ACL2006]

but you have to figure that tickets for opening night of Ghost were mostly comps, so it's grosses basically represent 7 performances. we'll see how it does next week.

[Mister Matt]

The Gross Potential for Ghost was adjusted for the added performance, so there was a small bump by a little over 6%.

[Jonwo]

Anything Goes I think will close in September but it depends on if Roundabout want to put in another show or rent it out. I'm surprised that Drood didn't end there.

[tmbyru]

Good for Ghost! I'm glad to see it do well. I enjoyed it. As for Leap of Faith, it needs to get.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Yay for that increase for my favorite show...."Chicago". from RC in Austin, Texas

[kyl3fong2]

Glad to see that bump for GHOST!


It also looks like Spider-Man is losing steam. Normally when Wicked and Lion King are pulling in $1.7 million Spider-Man is somewhere up near the $1.5 or higher range and not lower towards the $1 mill mark.

If the show starts grossing below $1 million a week, given its expensive weekly running cost do you think it will have to close?

[Smaxie]

Ghost's average ticket price is really low - $62.62, just 3 cents above Clybourne Park and in the neighborhood of what they are paying for Godspell. Mary Poppins, in its fifth year, is bringing in $10 higher at $72.05. Don't mean to be a killjoy, but those figures are a little frightening.

[blaxx]

Don't mean to be a killjoy, but those figures are a little frightening.

Yes, it's not doing very good at all.

[qolbinau]

"Even before seeing the grosses, I was surprised that LEAP didn't close yesterday. The AVERAGE ticket price paid for LEAP was $24! I usually don't pay much attention to that, but has it ever been so low for other shows? "

Even GLORY DAYS, a notorious flop had a higher average ticket price for its run than Leap of Faith. The other recent show I can think of with a very low ticket price was HIGH (average of $26 for its 4.5 week run). Leap of Faith is probably breaking records here. Congratulations to all involved :P.

[tmbyru]

Lysistrata had low ticket sales like $24 a ticket in the end.

[qolbinau]

LJ's overall average was $35.83, it reached under $20 once during the middle of the 'run' but in the end was close to $50. I still think Leap of Faith might hold the record for the lowest amount of money people are willing to pay to see a musical.