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INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 5/16

By: May. 16, 2016
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Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 5/15/2016.

Tony Award Best Musical nominee WAITRESS continued to serve up strong numbers at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre playing its best week yet. For the week ending May 15, the musical grossed $981,313 with sold-out houses, up from $960,477 the prior week.

Also sold out for the week amongst the new shows, SHUFFLE ALONG. And of note this week, THE LION KING only played 7 shows, due to ESPN buying out the theatre for their upfronts on Sunday.

Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON $1,686,168
THE LION KING $1,651,070
WICKED $1,478,453
ALADDIN $1,377,960
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,341,902


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
ECLIPSED ($291,497), THE FATHER ($304,078), TUCK EVERLASTING ($326,097), FUN HOME ($385,207), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME ($388,809)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

SOMETHING ROTTEN! $79,718
BRIGHT STAR $60,696
ON YOUR FEET! $56,567
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF $54,546
KINKY BOOTS $53,915


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
PARAMOUR ($-610,975), THE COLOR PURPLE ($-362,800), THE LION KING ($-356,668), HAMILTON ($-147,305), MATILDA ($-83,870)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON $157.06
THE BOOK OF MORMON $153.69
THE LION KING $145.03
SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT $122.37
BEAUTIFUL $121.61


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
TUCK EVERLASTING ($58.76), THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME ($73.96), MATILDA ($74.01), BRIGHT STAR ($74.28), PARAMOUR ($75.22)


Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

HAMILTON 126.31%
THE BOOK OF MORMON 97.48%
WAITRESS 96.26%
THE LION KING 91.69%
SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT 87.83%


Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
TUCK EVERLASTING (29.31%), FINDING NEVERLAND (32.18%), ECLIPSED (36.97%), THE FATHER (42.91%), MATILDA (44.58%)


Top 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

THE BOOK OF MORMON 102.4%
HAMILTON 101.6%
SHUFFLE ALONG, OR, THE MAKING OF THE MUSICAL SENSATION OF 1921 AND ALL THAT 101.5%
WAITRESS 101.1%
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 97.6%


Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
FINDING NEVERLAND (51.7%), TUCK EVERLASTING (59.8%), ECLIPSED (60.1%), SOMETHING ROTTEN! (60.2%), JERSEY BOYS (61.8%)


Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 972
KINKY BOOTS 750
BRIGHT STAR 706
SOMETHING ROTTEN! 532
THE FATHER 467


Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
PARAMOUR (-5274), THE LION KING (-2105), THE COLOR PURPLE (-1354), MATILDA (-700), FINDING NEVERLAND (-682)

That's all for this week... Other statistics that you'd like to see? Let us know!









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