This Week Saw The Close Of All The Way, The Lyndon Johnson Bioplay Starring Bryan Cranston, Which Brought In A Very Impressive And Record-Setting Gross.


“All The Way” Goes Out With A Bang

The Robert Schenkkan penned Lyndon B. Johnson bioplay All The Way closed at the end of this past week on June 29, 2014, and not without fanfare. Starring Bryan Cranston in the presidential leading role, this play deals with the Civil Rights period of U.S. history, and Martin Luther King, Jr. is also a major character.

Though it had been off to a moderate start at the box office, this show picked up in awards season, winning the Tony Award for Best Play among a slew of other honors. In its second to last week, the show broke the box office record for a new play on Broadway with a weekly gross of $1,425,001.

Record-Setting Numbers In Final Week

However, in its final week of performances, the play attracted an extremely impressive rise of $198,494 on top of its previous week’s record-setting numbers, grossing a new record-setting total of $1,623,495. This made it the fourth highest-grossing show on Broadway that week, with only the megahit musicals Wicked, The Lion King, and The Book of Mormon ahead of it. For a straight play on Broadway, that is a major coup.

“Bullets Over Broadway” May Be On Its Last Legs

Based on the Woody Allen feature film of the same name, the musical Bullets Over Broadway had a lot of hype going into production. However, since it has been running, very little attention has been paid to it. Most notably, it failed to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical, and its box office numbers are now showing the brunt of this inattention.

In this past week, the show grossed only $602,629, which was a decrease of $153,930 from the previous week. Perhaps its biggest star attraction is Zach Braff, who was out for a single performance in that eight performance week. Still, this drop in numbers may be an indication that this show is about to enter a period of decline, and may not hold up past the summer.

“Aladdin” Reaches New Heights

This past week, the Disney stage production of Aladdin grossed $1,502,696, which is its highest weekly earnings to date. In the week prior, the show brought in $1,325,987, which was still impressive. In this past week, its high gross made it the fifth highest grossing show on Broadway, after Wicked, The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, and All The Way.

This bodes well for the musical entering the summer season, and will most likely mean that it continues to bring in high sales throughout this traditionally tourist-driven season.

The following are the Broadway ticket sales numbers for the week ending June 29, 2014:

Broadway-Show-Ticket-Analysis-6-29-14
Show GrossGross Total Attn %Cap AvgPdAdm
A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER $927,487 7,288 100.44% $127.26
AFTER MIDNIGHT $767,964 8,183 98.73% $93.85
ALADDIN $1,502,696 13,784 100.00% $109.02
ALL THE WAY $1,623,495 11,464 100.77% $141.62
BEAUTIFUL $1,235,339 8,257 100.60% $149.61
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY $602,629 6,974 53.48% $86.41
CABARET $729,731 6,671 93.38% $109.39
CASA VALENTINA $235,016 4,404 85.48% $53.36
CHICAGO $516,636 6,492 75.14% $79.58
CINDERELLA $926,669 11,785 84.13% $78.63
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH $1,069,004 7,212 102.31% $148.23
HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME $159,571 3,549 39.93% $44.96
IF/THEN $887,879 9,265 88.34% $95.83
JERSEY BOYS $909,478 8,960 91.21% $101.50
KINKY BOOTS $1,382,680 11,060 97.09% $125.02
LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL $537,507 4,485 93.95% $119.85
LES MISÉRABLES $1,059,346 10,169 90.21% $104.17
MAMMA MIA! $695,608 8,113 86.97% $85.74
MATILDA $1,176,510 11,504 100.42% $102.27
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL $992,536 10,261 85.11% $96.73
NEWSIES $793,740 9,209 97.14% $86.19
OF MICE AND MEN $840,010 8,329 97.03% $100.85
ONCE $479,509 6,080 71.77% $78.87
PIPPIN $627,679 7,106 89.72% $88.33
ROCK OF AGES $319,029 3,950 84.69% $80.77
ROCKY $711,332 8,244 67.97% $86.28
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,658,638 8,752 102.63% $189.52
THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN $531,521 6,094 70.99% $87.22
THE LION KING $2,044,928 13,601 100.01% $150.35
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $954,357 11,147 86.81% $85.62
THE REALISTIC JONESES $428,155 5,050 72.39% $84.78
VIOLET $340,374 4,340 73.91% $78.43
WICKED $2,107,598 15,354 99.55% $137.27
Totals: $29,774,659 277,136 87.34% $102.65

Broadway ticket sales raw data are provided courtesy of The Broadway League All other data, text, opinion, charts and commentary are copyright © 2014 nytix.com