Broadway Grosses w/e 2/4/2018: The Patriots aren’t the only ones who lost last week

Well, we didn’t plunge as much as the Dow, but Broadway grosses surely took a tumble last week.

Or should I say, we took a “fumble.”

Super Bowl Sunday always takes a bite out of Broadway business (as I’m sure it does for so many other businesses around the globe – if you don’t have TVs and sell wings, I’d hate to own a restaurant around game time).

You know things are bad when Hamilton drops below $3mm.  The horror!

But, there are some silver linings in this super-sucky week.  Bernadette Peters is holding her own at Hello, Dolly!, keeping the show a part of the $1mm club, when so many people thought the show would dip down to the $600s and $700s without Bette.  And speaking of stars, what about that John Lithgow pulling in $400k?

But this was the first week in awhile when a few shows on this list will see red on the bottom of their next profit/loss statement.

And for some reason, this week might end up a little worse, as customers take a spending break before February vacations start.

Hamilton might even drop below $2.75mm!

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 4th, 2018:

Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Capacity AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL $683,940.79 7,358 88.10% $92.95
ALADDIN $1,176,503.00 13,370 96.77% $88.00
ANASTASIA $809,926.76 8,876 97.07% $91.25
BEAUTIFUL $654,733.05 6,516 79.39% $100.48
CHICAGO $514,130.63 6,646 76.92% $77.36
COME FROM AWAY $1,129,936.50 8,493 101.49% $133.04
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $1,663,824.64 7,957 101.08% $209.10
FARINELLI AND THE KING $799,692.10 7,686 91.41% $104.05
HAMILTON $2,789,366.00 10,736 101.59% $259.81
HELLO, DOLLY! $1,012,052.96 10,609 91.71% $95.40
JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART $405,363.60 4,938 83.41% $82.09
KINKY BOOTS $660,652.65 7,845 68.86% $84.21
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS $521,851.50 5,874 83.58% $88.84
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND $515,456.30 5,401 97.00% $95.44
SCHOOL OF ROCK $569,912.92 7,709 63.27% $73.93
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS $650,492.80 9,685 75.19% $67.16
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY $2,408,900.00 4,740 100.00% $508.21
THE BAND’S VISIT $888,059.50 7,631 91.81% $116.38
THE BOOK OF MORMON $995,121.00 7,485 100.31% $132.95
THE CHILDREN $273,595.20 4,563 87.75% $59.96
THE LION KING $1,667,193.00 13,329 98.24% $125.08
THE PARISIAN WOMAN $400,167.00 5,463 69.90% $73.25
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $838,668.38 10,470 81.54% $80.10
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $295,910.50 4,556 66.69% $64.95
WAITRESS $1,174,702.40 7,297 87.28% $160.98
WICKED $1,369,478.50 14,864 99.54% $92.13
TOTALS $24,869,631.68 210,097 87.69% $121.43
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +$4,995,628.66      
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +25.13%

*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.

 

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