Broadway Grosses w/e 5/6/2018: What did the Tony nominations do to the grosses?
The answer?
Not much.
The irony of this time of year, when we’re celebrating the best of the best in our industry, is that there aren’t a lot of folks buying Broadway tickets.
That’s why grosses fell 5% last week, despite the massive amounts of press that the nominated shows received.
Does that mean that people didn’t buy tickets for the shows that got lots of ‘award kudos’? Not on your life. They absolutely did buy tickets . . . they just bought them for future performances.
We don’t publish “wraps” in our business (a “wrap” is a show’s daily take for ANY performance on sale), but I’d bet money that if we did, they would have been up from the previous week.
Instead, we’ll have to deal with the bit of our expected seasonal decline this time of year.
And we’ll dream of the golden summer months to come.
Here are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 6, 2018:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $469,532.65 | 5,294 | 63.39% | $88.69 |
| ALADDIN | $1,342,282.50 | 13,491 | 97.65% | $99.49 |
| ANASTASIA | $683,990.00 | 7,524 | 82.28% | $90.91 |
| ANGELS IN AMERICA | $817,186.50 | 8,295 | 83.33% | $98.52 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $670,118.90 | 6,420 | 78.22% | $104.38 |
| CAROUSEL | $1,172,416.00 | 9,757 | 85.41% | $120.16 |
| CHICAGO | $696,668.30 | 7,932 | 91.81% | $87.83 |
| CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD | $297,762.00 | 5,634 | 70.14% | $52.85 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,180,366.00 | 8,495 | 101.52% | $138.95 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,656,795.40 | 7,972 | 101.27% | $207.83 |
| ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE | $677,260.50 | 7,366 | 56.63% | $91.94 |
| FROZEN | $1,689,302.00 | 13,102 | 97.49% | $128.93 |
| HAMILTON | $3,101,303.00 | 10,757 | 101.79% | $288.31 |
| HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO | $2,104,904.50 | 12,976 | 100.00% | $162.22 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $939,154.40 | 9,876 | 85.37% | $95.09 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $684,451.50 | 8,109 | 71.18% | $84.41 |
| LOBBY HERO | $526,621.50 | 4,515 | 97.14% | $116.64 |
| MEAN GIRLS | $1,461,048.60 | 9,874 | 100.76% | $147.97 |
| MY FAIR LADY | $1,040,959.00 | 8,552 | 100.00% | $121.72 |
| ONCE ON THIS ISLAND | $435,430.06 | 4,904 | 88.07% | $88.79 |
| SAINT JOAN | $207,881.10 | 3,951 | 76.33% | $52.61 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $626,137.72 | 7,474 | 61.34% | $83.78 |
| SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS | $565,662.00 | 9,308 | 72.27% | $60.77 |
| SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY | $1,928,605.00 | 3,792 | 100.00% | $508.60 |
| SUMMER | $1,053,826.00 | 9,830 | 83.59% | $107.21 |
| THE BAND’S VISIT | $790,939.86 | 7,819 | 94.07% | $101.16 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,099,943.50 | 8,563 | 102.23% | $128.45 |
| THE BOYS IN THE BAND | $1,008,097.00 | 6,018 | 97.19% | $167.51 |
| THE ICEMAN COMETH | $1,108,336.40 | 7,221 | 97.87% | $153.49 |
| THE LION KING | $2,116,907.00 | 13,520 | 99.65% | $156.58 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,035,350.20 | 11,940 | 92.99% | $86.71 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $241,751.16 | 3,647 | 53.38% | $66.29 |
| THREE TALL WOMEN | $908,888.74 | 6,296 | 100.00% | $144.36 |
| TRAVESTIES | $378,743.10 | 4,519 | 77.70% | $83.81 |
| WAITRESS | $782,115.70 | 6,821 | 81.59% | $114.66 |
| WICKED | $1,493,289.00 | 13,063 | 90.36% | $114.31 |
| TOTALS: | $36,994,026.79 | 294,627 | 87.06% | $126.28 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | $4,131,106.88 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | 12.57 % |
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