Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/30/12

[Rob]

Click below to access all the grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/30/2012 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: SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (34.6%), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (27.7%), EVITA (27.4%), NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (24.0%), CHAPLIN (23.6%), CHICAGO (21.9%), MARY POPPINS (21.5%), MAMMA MIA! (20.7%), JERSEY BOYS (16.4%), ANNIE (15.1%), BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL (14.5%), THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (14.3%), GRACE (13.0%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (12.7%), DEAD ACCOUNTS (9.9%), GOLDEN BOY (9.2%), NEWSIES (8.0%), WICKED (7.2%), ROCK OF AGES (5.5%), THE HEIRESS (4.4%), GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (4.0%), A CHRISTMAS STORY (3.9%), ONCE (3.3%), ELF (2.1%), THE OTHER PLACE (1.0%), WAR HORSE (0.4%), WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (0.4%),

Down for the week by attendance was: PICNIC (-4.4%), CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (-3.0%),

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[beautywickedlover]

Excellent week for the shows especially for 'Annie', which crossed $2 million mark.

[willep]

Holy Spider-Man, how does it sell 2,000 extra seats? Does it not count the 9th performance in the number of total possible seats?

[bdn223]

Let me just congratulate BRING IT ON on ending their runs with their heads held high and high grosses as well. Also congrats to War Horse and Peter and The Starcatcher on heading into their respective home streches on highs. I only hope the numbers keep up in their final week(s).
**thought war horse ended 12/30....my bad**

[booth0882]

Great week overall, although don't expect most of those numbers to even remotely hold up. Particularly Annie. Really encouraging to see such a strong holiday week!

And with Spiderman, if you divide total attendance for the week by the capacity you get 10.3 (meaning they had enough tickets sold for over 10 sold out performances. So if the actual attendance number is right (it coincides with the attendance times the average ticket price for the week), then they must have sold over 2,000 standing room tickets this last week. Not sure how they would fit that extra 200+ audience members per show in the Foxwoods...

[booth0882]

"Let me just congratulate War Horse and especially BRING IT ON on ending their runs with their heads held high and high grosses as well."

War Horse closes on the 6th.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Fantastic numbers for many shows....especially for my favorite musical "Chicago." What the hey for "Picnic"? I hope they build some kind of audience very soon. BTW, would someone remind me why all those shows had 9 perfs? Is it because..they can? Just wondering.....RC in Austin, Texas

[willep]

They had extra performances because it was the big holiday week.

[frogs_fan85]

booth0882, there's a calculation error in the chart for Spider-man. Selling 16,946 out of 17,370 possible tickets is an attendance of 97.6%, not the 114.8% that's currently listed.

[BwayGeek2]

Wow -- that's a great week for Broadway. Congratulations to all of those shows that grossed over $1 million.

Is that a record for Wicked? Has any show grossed over $3 million in one week?

[booth0882]

Looks like since I looked last they have corrected the total attendance as you said, but have yet to correct the total gross or percentage of house. The gross should read 2,308,284. (Presuming the average ticket price is accurate.)

[mjroberts972]

Ugh I wish every week on Broadway could get the same grosses that holiday weeks do.

[Jonwo]

It's impressive that Wicked managed to break the national tour record as well, only $200,000 shy of the Broadway production and with tickets I imagine being cheaper than Broadway, hasn't the Fox Theatre in St Louis got over 4000 seats?

Newsies and Once did very well and Mary Poppins and Mamma Mia! were back over $1m.

[zamedy]

Great for Broadway. Really. But $180 dollars a ticket to see WICKED? $220 to see BOOK OF MORMAN? Who can afford that?! Four-hundred dollars just to get in the front door.

[Markecib]

Those don't even include the premium tickets sold for $400+

[ACL2006]

also, any show that did 9 performances this week are doing 7 performances this week(outside of Elf), so expect a lot of shows to take a huge dive next week. And isn't it an equity rule that if a show does 9 performances one week, it must do 7 the following(or the week before). I believe Elf & A Christmas Story had special contracts drawn up where they were allowed to do 9 performances for most weeks.

[booth0882]

Only when there is a 6 in 3 does a production need to give actors an extra day off.

[mc1227]

Seems like many shows are doing 8 shows this week even though they did 9 last week. Most of the shows that had 9 performances last week were over the course of 5 days with 1 day (Friday in many cases) being a single and the rest doubles.

[Hank]

$37,441,497 total gross
$1,207,790 average
Is that a new record? If so, by how much?

[willep]

It's not quite a new record for the total gross, if you look at that chart they have at the top of the page.