Broadway Grosses w/e 9/24/2017: Just when you thought it was safe . . .
It’s usually the first two weeks of September that are the worst of the fall, but last week we dropped another $2mm from the previous week.
What happened?
Well, Broadway Week ended the w/e 9/17, so there was no steroid shot of sales into the 3rd week like there were in the first two. And, last week, the floating Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (which was in early October in 2016) also took a bite of the box office, as so many locals spent time at home with their families rather than in a theater. (Watch, in a few weeks, that early October week will beat last’s years gross at the same time for the converse reason.)
Lastly, there were two more empty theaters, with Bandstand and Groundhog Day, shuttering the week before.
All that means we’ve started giving back those big gains of the early weeks of the season. Overall, our grosses are still up over 20%. But they were up 24% before we ran head first into September.
And I’ve got a feeling we’re going to give up a few more basis points before we get to the good weeks.
Here are the Broadway grosses from last week:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| 1984 | $271,920.08 | 4,417 | 56.92% | $61.56 |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $735,786.35 | 7,589 | 90.86% | $96.95 |
| A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 | $332,573.58 | 4,623 | 74.56% | $71.94 |
| ALADDIN | $1,344,625.00 | 13,427 | 97.18% | $100.14 |
| ANASTASIA | $784,877.82 | 7,560 | 82.68% | $103.82 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $883,512.34 | 7,584 | 92.40% | $116.50 |
| CATS | $570,470.00 | 7,031 | 63.92% | $81.14 |
| CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY | $668,215.50 | 8,297 | 69.33% | $80.54 |
| CHICAGO | $596,542.35 | 6,885 | 79.69% | $86.64 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,310,806.00 | 8,523 | 101.85% | $153.80 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,672,108.77 | 7,963 | 101.16% | $209.98 |
| HAMILTON | $2,932,833.00 | 10,759 | 101.81% | $272.59 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $2,317,149.64 | 11,355 | 98.16% | $204.06 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $695,289.00 | 7,703 | 67.62% | $90.26 |
| MISS SAIGON | $567,871.00 | 7,143 | 60.53% | $79.50 |
| PRINCE OF BROADWAY | $337,497.90 | 4,020 | 81.44% | $83.95 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $606,236.11 | 7,186 | 58.98% | $84.36 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,193,378.00 | 8,677 | 101.75% | $137.53 |
| THE LION KING | $1,859,496.00 | 13,560 | 99.94% | $137.13 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $878,315.92 | 10,030 | 78.12% | $87.57 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $297,080.50 | 5,304 | 77.63% | $56.01 |
| THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER | $260,295.40 | 5,638 | 69.92% | $46.17 |
| TIME AND THE CONWAYS | $264,917.00 | 4,605 | 78.42% | $57.53 |
| WAITRESS | $636,992.35 | 6,894 | 82.46% | $92.40 |
| WAR PAINT | $565,016.00 | 7,302 | 78.15% | $77.38 |
| WICKED | $1,408,133.00 | 12,343 | 85.38% | $114.08 |
| TOTALS | $23,991,938.61 | 206,418 | 81.96% | $107.06 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$1,826,639.92 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +8.24% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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