Grease's Weekly Box Office Gross Thread

MrE1111 · Guru

Grease's Weekly Box Office Gross Thread

grannygreaser · Senior Member

Hello799 wrote:

For those of us who wants to keep track

WEEK #1 (7/24-7/29).....$882,396 at 99.7% cap.
WEEK #2 (7/30-8/05).....$887,564 at 99.3% cap.
WEEK #3 (8/06-8/12).....$881,953 at 99.1% cap.
WEEK #4 (8/13-8/19).....$774,206 at 99.7% cap.
WEEK #5 (8/20-8/26).....$818,991 at 100.7% cap.
WEEK #6 (8/27-9/02).....$892,270 at 100.9% cap.
WEEK #7 (9/03-9/09).....$788,021 at 89.0% cap.
WEEK #8 (9/10-9/16).....$756,849 at 86.9% cap.
WEEK #9 (9/17-9/23).....$749,564 at 86.5% cap.
WEEK #10 (9/24-9/30)...$719,404 at 85.4% cap.

It's still holding in there. Some are starting to pick up a little, so maybe in the next couple of weeks...

-- Edited by grannygreaser at 22:53, 2007-10-02

MrE1111 · Guru

Still holding in, though this was it's weakest week yet.

DogsandBirds · Guru

We're up this week ending 10/08 - the holiday sure helps ticket sales.

This week's gross - $804,997

Last week's gross (9/30) - $719,404

Percent of ticket sales this week - 93.6%

Percent of ticket sales last week - 85.4%

increase - 8.2%

-- Edited by DogsandBirds at 19:29, 2007-10-09

gramps3 · Senior Member

10/14 grosses are posted.

http://broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

Stan/gramps3

Ray · Senior Member

gramps3 wrote:

http://broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

Bumping this link.........
10/21 UP a bit.... $793,671... 94.3% capacity.

DogsandBirds · Guru

Up is always good.

gramps3 · Senior Member

10/28 weekly gross is at this url

http://broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

Seats filled was 90.1%, down -4.2%

Total gross was $793,671, down $43687 from last week

Total audience was 7728, down about a hundred seats a performance

Stan/gramps

DogsandBirds · Guru

Some days there are empty seats, mostly weeknights like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Weekends they are probably sold out. The numbers are for the week and do not reflect individual shows.

For almost every show with the except of a show like Jersey Boys, it is always easier to get tickets for weeknights than weekends.

gramps3 · Senior Member

DogsandBirds wrote:

Some days there are empty seats, mostly weeknights like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Weekends they are probably sold out. The numbers are for the week and do not reflect individual shows.

For almost every show with the except of a show like Jersey Boys, it is always easier to get tickets for weeknights than weekends.

Of course. Saying that it could translate into roughly 100 seats a performance is just a way of getting a handle on the figures. Of course, if they are sold out on weekends then they must be down more than a hundred seats, on the average, for weekdays.

A more meaningul way of interpreting the data is to compare percentages both within the Grease data and between Grease and other shows.

Stan/Gramps

reniefran · Senior Member

Still pretty darn good if you ask me! I remember the naysayers who didn't think it would last and it seems to be doing quite well thank you. Too bad I don't live closer, I would help fill those empty weekday seats!

grannygreaser · Senior Member

Grosses for week ending 11/04 - $685,136 84.1%

Most shows are down. "Grease" is right behind "Spring Awakening" and still in the top 10.

gramps3 · Senior Member

grannygreaser wrote:

Grosses for week ending 11/04 - $685,136 84.1%

Most shows are down. "Grease" is right behind "Spring Awakening" and still in the top 10.

The gross figure has little or no meanng when used to compare two shows unless it is adjusted to account for the size of the house, % of seats filled, ticket prices or some such data.

When ranked on their standing of percentage of seats filled Grease has dropped in the past week from 8th to 11th and gross measured against the "nut" is getting into a level that is of concern when amount in comes close to amount paid out. The most worrisome figure to me is that the gross is slipping down toward that dangerous level.

I am sure the producers are figuring on a bump up during the holidays but probably also are trying to use multiple regression statistics to predict how the post holiday season will affect receipts.

It is more comfortable to look at the glass as half full but more responsible to start looking for more water when realizing that the same glass is only half full.

Contrary to what Disney says, wishing does not make it so----even in Disneyland.

stan/gramps3

DogsandBirds · Guru

The producers of this show have produced many other shows and know, particularly in the case of revivals, that the box office receipts have their ups and downs. Considering how other shows are doing, it appears we are faring pretty well and holding our own out there.

Not a time to panic or to offer discounts either; time will come for that I am sure.

singingdoc · Veteran Member

Hey folks,
Didn't last week include halloween? My understanding is that halloween is typically a bad day for broadway since a lot of people want to stay home and greet kids trick-or-treating. Didn't Grease and many other shows on broadway have 2 shows that day (matinee and nighttime performances)? It's no wonder broadway in general had a bad week. I guess what I'm saying is that last week's Grosses should not be a cause for panic.

gramps3 · Senior Member

DogsandBirds wrote:

The producers of this show have produced many other shows and know, particularly in the case of revivals, that the box office receipts have their ups and downs. Considering how other shows are doing, it appears we are faring pretty well and holding our own out there.

Not a time to panic or to offer discounts either; time will come for that I am sure.

There was no "panic" in my post nor did I suggest discounts. Just a touch of reality to add to the mix of unquestioned enthusiasm.

Stan/gramps3

greatwhiteway · Senior Member

I was wondering if maybe Halloween had a bigger effect on shows drawing a younger audience like Grease, Mary Poppins and maybe the Lion King, than on shows that have older demographics. Probably not but it was just a thought.

gramps3 · Senior Member

I haven't seen much comment on the forum about post-strike box-office grosses. Perhaps I missed it. But I noticed that the grosses for last week (12/2 figures) had Grease at # 6 from the top when listed by percentage of seats filled.

It is hard to compare different shows' grosses because of differing house size but this percentage figure allows such comparison. The fact that attendance is remaining high and relatively in the same neighborhood as it has been in the last several reported grosses etc is very encouraging.

It would be easy for a borderline show to slip out of the public's eye and favor after a interruption such as caused by the strike but Grease seems to have picked up about where it left off.

I wonder if these figures reflect at all the amount of dollars lost from money returned for performance cancellations? It may be too early for those figures to have been assembled in any meaningful way.

If the attendance holds up another couple of weeks we will be solidly moving into the holiday season and that will provide a nice box office shot in the arm if it is typical of most years.

Stan/gramps3

gramps3 · Senior Member

Grosses for last week are up on Broadway World. Grease slipped a little, being down 7.6% from last week if I remember correctly. It appears that they are covering costs but not a whole lot more. Not knowing the net figure makes it difficult to be sure just how much over cost they are taking in.

Stan/gramps3

Maxismylove · Senior Member

All the shows that beat Grease in capacity are the ones that always have from the beginning with the exception of Cyrano (big name movie stars).
The show is still sold out for several months in to the new year. It is hard for family to get good seats without going through a scalper.