Broadway Grosses* w/e 3/5/2017 – Down in Grosses, Up in Attendance!
Greetings Gross Fans!
Would you look at that? Our grosses were down last week, but attendance was up. How did this happen? Isn’t the trend usually the opposite?
Credit this reversal to last Tuesday’s Kid’s Night on Broadway, the one-night 2-for-1 promotion for adults who bring kids to one of the many Broadway shows who participate.
A helicopter landed on Broadway last week, in the form of Miss Saigon, which is on its way to being a higher grosser and Sunday in the Park‘s limited engagement and high profile star–Jake Gyllenhaal–helped propel the show above the $1 million mark, in the more intimate Hudson Theater (what great advertising for the venue – the first show in residence demonstrates it can gross more than a million with less than 1,000 seats).
More shows will be opening in the next few weeks, which means our numbers should climb.
But will they?
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending March 5th, 2017:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $846,425.20 | 7,627 | 91.32% | $110.98 |
| ALADDIN | $1,194,404.50 | 13,690 | 99.09% | $87.25 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $741,370.50 | 7,144 | 87.04% | $103.78 |
| CATS | $683,177.00 | 8,258 | 75.07% | $82.73 |
| CHICAGO | $515,798.69 | 6,470 | 74.88% | $79.72 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $643,600.50 | 8,215 | 98.17% | $78.34 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,160,330.28 | 7,993 | 101.54% | $145.17 |
| HAMILTON | $2,835,098.50 | 10,735 | 101.58% | $264.10 |
| IN TRANSIT | $239,851.80 | 3,988 | 75.76% | $60.14 |
| JITNEY | $363,837.60 | 5,170 | 99.42% | $70.37 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $782,655.50 | 8,688 | 76.26% | $90.08 |
| MISS SAIGON | $723,243.43 | 8,315 | 95.74% | $86.98 |
| NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 | $984,889.23 | 8,498 | 93.34% | $115.90 |
| ON YOUR FEET! | $611,706.10 | 7,537 | 57.94% | $81.16 |
| PARAMOUR | $769,249.75 | 10,754 | 70.90% | $71.53 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $841,015.90 | 9,423 | 77.34% | $89.25 |
| SIGNIFICANT OTHER | $165,131.00 | 4,737 | 77.81% | $34.86 |
| SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE | $1,053,015.00 | 7,499 | 97.95% | $140.42 |
| SUNSET BOULEVARD | $1,210,262.40 | 9,254 | 78.74% | $130.78 |
| SWEAT | $53,779.50 | 602 | 91.35% | $89.33 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,180,935.00 | 8,639 | 101.30% | $136.70 |
| THE GLASS MENAGERIE | $421,466.80 | 7,072 | 89.02% | $59.60 |
| THE LION KING | $1,530,680.00 | 13,565 | 99.98% | $112.84 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $780,354.21 | 9,425 | 73.40% | $82.80 |
| THE PRESENT | $639,319.00 | 5,741 | 68.15% | $111.36 |
| THE PRICE | $568,804.70 | 5,869 | 99.14% | $96.92 |
| WAITRESS | $766,926.50 | 7,289 | 87.19% | $105.22 |
| WICKED | $1,515,568.00 | 14,021 | 96.99% | $108.09 |
| TOTALS | $23,822,896.59 | 226,218 | 87.02% | $100.94 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$3,142,925.86 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +15.19% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League
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