Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/26/12

[Rob]

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/26/2012 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.

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Up for the week by attendance was: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (9.2%), CLYBOURNE PARK (8.4%), GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN (6.0%), PORGY AND BESS (3.1%), SISTER ACT (2.8%), ROCK OF AGES (1.1%),

Down for the week by attendance was: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (-14.3%), MARY POPPINS (-8.6%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (-6.4%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (-5.6%), MAMMA MIA! (-4.6%), BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL (-4.1%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2.9%), WICKED (-2.6%), EVITA (-2.0%), CHICAGO (-1.0%), JERSEY BOYS (-0.9%), ONCE (-0.7%), WAR HORSE (-0.7%), NEWSIES (-0.2%),

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[Wynbish]

Nice Work took a nice hit

[shrekster224]

Wow, Wicked dipped under 90% capacity.

[Phantom of London]

Exactly what I was thinking, Wow and ouch for Nice Work.

[beautywickedlover]

"Exactly what I was thinking, Wow and ouch for Nice Work."

If the grosses continue to be like beginning next week, after Matthew's return, then it will not be running much longer.

[sondheimfan2]

"Wow, Wicked dipped under 90% capacity."

Oddly, I noticed an ad for WICKED in my local Sunday newspaper. I'm in the Allentown, PA area, so shows only run ads for local productions or touring companies. But this ad was for the Broadway production. I thought it was strange, but after seeing the dip, not so much.

[ACL2006]

Sister Act went out on a somewhat high note. Nice Work needs to do something if it wants a decdent run. Once continues to gross $1 million, I wonder if it'll keep up during September.

[mc1227]

Nice Work did take a big hit, but keep in mind that Broderick was on vacation. Most shows dipped but I agree that September will be crucial for this show. Broadway week ticket sales will help and the fall bus tours will pick up now since the summer is over.

[JakePinckes]

Newsies dropped under a million this week. Hopefully they don't drop too much more.

[bwayphreak234]

^ It's barely below one million, and it grossed 96.11% of it's gross potential. Nothing to worry about yet.

[Jonwo]

Newsies is fine, it's at the amount it was making before summer began.

[JakePinckes]

I know I sound stupid for this, but what does Gross Potential mean? :/

[TheatreKid3]

The percentage the show actually grossed compared to the maximum amount the show COULD gross for the week.

[JakePinckes]

what measures what the show could gross? based on ticket prices?

[dramamama611]

Selling all tickets at full price. (I do not know if premium seats are factored in, however.)

[JakePinckes]

oh ok. got it. Thanks guys!

[Jonwo]

Some shows like Book of Mormon actually gross a lot more due to the amount of premium tickets sold and they currently have the highest priced premium seat of any Broadway show.

[adam.peterson44]

I've never understood why premium prices are not considered part of the potential sales. Those seats are listed at those prices, after all. It doesn't make sense to have a percentage higher than 100% of gross potential, except in the case of standing room where there were no seats being counted in the potential sales for those standing positions.

Anyone know why these are not counted? (Other than trying to make the percentage numbers look better, anyway)

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Is it too early to be concerned about "Chaplin"? Hopefully, it will get positive reviews from critics. from RC in Austin, Texas

[supersam1026]

The scary thing is that at BOM their regular ticket is $155, but their average ticket price is $186 (and has been hovering around there for a while!). Guess they are selling way more premiums then even regular priced tickets which is crazy!

[ACL2006]

any new show in previews likely gives out a ton of comps to family, friends, producers, sponsors, etc. We'll see how Chaplin does once it officially opens.