By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on March 12, 2015 2:29 PM
In The Week Ending March 8, 2015, Most Shows Stayed The Same From The Week Before. Fish In The Dark And The Audience, Showed A Slight Decline In Sales.
A Stable Week On Broadway
In the week ending March 8, 2015, no new shows began previews. Furthermore, the overall weekly gross for all shows on Broadway stayed almost exactly the same. In the previous week, the entire industry brought in $18,260,267, and this week it brought in $18,202,017. Overall, that is an increase of only $58,250.
Of the 25 shows that had performances this past week, 17 saw an increase in sales, though generally this increase was very slight. The biggest increase was seen by Wicked, which brought in $1,352,213, demonstrating an increase of $147,746 from the week prior.
Strong Week For "The Book Of Mormon", "The Lion King", And "Wicked"
Overall, Wicked was the third highest-grossing show this week, only beat out by The Book of Mormon with a weekly gross of $1,450,723 and The Lion King with a gross of $1,450,034. Other than Wicked, every other show that increased this week did so by no more than 5 digits.
The closest gross between this and last week was brought in by A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, which went down by only $649. Strangely, almost all of the shows performed within $50,000 of their gross the week before, demonstrating a very stable, if not lucrative, week on Broadway.
Two Top Grossing Plays Showed A Decrease In Sales
The two straight plays that have been demonstrating the most promise so far this early spring season are The Audience starring Helen Mirren, and Fish in the Dark written by and starring Larry David. Both of these shows recently opened to relatively mixed reviews, The Audience leaning toward the positive and Fish in the Dark leaning toward the negative.
Perhaps the silence being broken about the quality of the shows brought down some of the allure that had made ticketbuyers go crazy for these shows, because both saw a fairly significant decrease in sales this previous week. The Audience brought in a weekly gross of $861,884, which was a decrease of $228,595 from the week before.
"Fish In The Dark" Still Performing Well
Fish in the Dark, which is still performing excellently, brought in a weekly gross of $1,006,832, although this is a decrease of $152,705 from the week before.
Nevertheless, another reason why this week was a bit low for these two shows could be accounted for by the fact that one of the week’s performances was the opening night, for which tickets are mostly complimentary for guests of the production. Therefore, the overall gross would show a decline due to one performance of lost ticket sales.
The following are the Broadway ticket sales numbers for the week ending March 8, 2015:
| Show Name | GrossGross | Total Attn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER | $543,966 | 5,830 | 80.35% | $93.30 |
| ALADDIN | $1,148,004 | 13,689 | 99.31% | $83.86 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $1,049,875 | 7,516 | 91.57% | $139.69 |
| CABARET | $708,067 | 6,125 | 85.74% | $115.60 |
| CHICAGO | $508,909 | 6,386 | 73.91% | $79.69 |
| CONSTELLATIONS | $689,238 | 5,837 | 99.78% | $118.08 |
| FISH IN THE DARK | $1,006,832 | 8,703 | 101.39% | $115.69 |
| HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH | $537,064 | 5,152 | 73.09% | $104.24 |
| HONEYMOON IN VEGAS | $310,450 | 4,492 | 48.83% | $69.11 |
| IF/THEN | $519,720 | 7,096 | 67.66% | $73.24 |
| IT’S ONLY A PLAY | $480,381 | 5,070 | 58.84% | $94.75 |
| JERSEY BOYS | $592,549 | 6,348 | 64.62% | $93.34 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $814,313 | 8,228 | 72.23% | $98.97 |
| LES MISÉRABLES | $624,346 | 8,493 | 75.35% | $73.51 |
| MAMMA MIA! | $417,314 | 5,732 | 61.45% | $72.80 |
| MATILDA | $714,894 | 8,992 | 78.49% | $79.50 |
| ON THE TOWN | $474,989 | 7,266 | 48.47% | $65.37 |
| ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | $364,904 | 5,082 | 87.98% | $71.80 |
| THE AUDIENCE | $861,884 | 7,532 | 100.65% | $114.43 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,450,723 | 8,750 | 102.60% | $165.80 |
| THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME | $670,953 | 6,695 | 82.21% | $100.22 |
| THE HEIDI CHRONICLES | $316,904 | 5,642 | 70.45% | $56.17 |
| THE LION KING | $1,450,034 | 13,051 | 95.96% | $111.11 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $651,741 | 8,427 | 65.63% | $77.34 |
| WICKED | $1,352,213 | 12,457 | 86.08% | $108.55 |
| Totals | $18,260,267 | 188,591 | 78.91% | $95.05 |
Broadway ticket sales raw data are provided courtesy of The Broadway League All other data, text, opinion, charts and commentary are copyright © 2015 nytix.com
