Broadway Grosses* w/e 4/30/2017 – All good things…

By Ken Davenport

Greeting Gross Fans!

The good news about the “May Slide” is that you can set your calendar by it. When Easter, Passover, and the spring breaks end, tourists tend to stay close to home and deal with the first communions, graduations, dance recitals, and everything else that happens this time of year. And they don’t go to the theater much.

The bad thing about the “May Slide” is that it happens every year, yet for some reason, we still open more shows in April than any other time of year.

That’s right, there are more shows going on in May than in April, but less people to see them.

Huh.

We lost almost 10% of the previous week’s gross this year, but luckily (thanks to our high-grossing star-studded shows this season (Hello, Dolly!) and the almost $3mm machine that is Hamilton), we’re up over last year.

Let’s hope tomorrow’s Tony nominations boost some of the grosses over the next few weeks because right now, they ain’t looking so good.

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending April 30th, 2017:

Show Name	GrossGross	TotalAttn	%Capacity	AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL	$820,877.80	7,852	94.01%	$104.54
A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2	$144,520.00	5,554	89.58%	$26.02
ALADDIN	$1,393,348.00	13,291	96.20%	$104.83
AMÉLIE	$378,019.40	4,682	63.13%	$80.74
ANASTASIA	$882,853.00	9,030	98.75%	$97.77
BANDSTAND	$508,756.95	7,638	92.42%	$66.61
BEAUTIFUL	$855,155.60	7,447	90.73%	$114.83
CATS	$714,382.00	8,066	73.33%	$88.57
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY	$1,151,021.00	11,825	98.81%	$97.34
CHICAGO	$597,893.85	7,063	81.75%	$84.65
COME FROM AWAY	$1,071,385.50	8,527	101.90%	$125.65
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	$1,235,971.96	7,991	101.51%	$154.67
GROUNDHOG DAY	$755,009.20	7,867	80.08%	$95.97
HAMILTON	$2,786,937.50	10,736	101.59%	$259.59
HELLO, DOLLY!	$2,105,473.80	10,256	102.67%	$205.29
INDECENT	$241,757.00	4,544	52.94%	$53.20
KINKY BOOTS	$694,845.50	8,525	74.83%	$81.51
MISS SAIGON	$873,433.00	9,750	70.16%	$89.58
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812	$937,564.36	8,158	89.61%	$114.93
ON YOUR FEET!	$653,185.00	7,735	59.46%	$84.45
OSLO	$584,905.00	7,140	85.24%	$81.92
PRESENT LAUGHTER	$812,989.45	8,671	77.59%	$93.76
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$852,730.10	9,333	76.60%	$91.37
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION	$361,925.70	5,998	71.27%	$60.34
SUNSET BOULEVARD	$1,136,966.30	9,292	79.06%	$122.36
SWEAT	$292,343.30	4,134	78.41%	$70.72
THE BOOK OF MORMON	$1,220,094.00	8,641	101.33%	$141.20
THE GLASS MENAGERIE	$307,363.50	5,366	67.55%	$57.28
THE LION KING	$1,926,741.00	13,503	99.52%	$142.69
THE LITTLE FOXES	$402,741.90	5,072	97.54%	$79.40
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA	$1,014,276.09	11,949	93.06%	$84.88
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG	$414,318.00	5,315	77.80%	$77.95
THE PRICE	$578,894.40	5,926	100.10%	$97.69
WAITRESS	$1,210,258.20	8,138	97.34%	$148.72
WAR PAINT	$1,001,177.10	8,450	90.43%	$118.48
WICKED	$1,591,560.00	13,750	95.12%	$115.75
TOTALS	$32,511,674.46	297,215	86.15%	$103.20
+/- THIS WEEK LAS SEASON	+$4,179,752.65
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON	+14.75%