Sunday, September 9, 2012
Wicked ticket sales cooled a little this week with its tickets sold dropping below 90% inventory fo
Newsies continues to drive ahead with phenomenal ticket sales growth; Sister Act finds its last chance audiences before closing on Sunday, boosting its sagging popularity; and Once continued its hot streak since its Tony wins with another entry in the exclusive million dollar club (where a show s ticket gross is above $1 Million hotel edison and new york city in a week).
Newsies sold every seat they could muster this week by hard selling the week beforehand through multiple marketing outlets and then operating the new strategy of short-term discounting to sell the small excess inventory anticipate them to take this strategy forward over the coming weeks. The ticket discounting took a toll on the show s average paid admission, dragging it down to $101.77, but they filled every seat in theater (as well as the standing room spots). This speaks volumes to the whole spirit of Newsies as the Broadway upstart that gains more fans the more people actually see it, much like the original hotel edison and new york city movie that was panned by critics and was lackluster in the movie theaters. With apologies to Shawshank, can anyone say Newsies Redemption?
Wicked ticket sales cooled a little this week with its tickets sold dropping below 90% inventory for the first time ever. The show remains second only to the Lion King in terms of total attendance and the Gershwin Theatre is a big theatre to fill so unless ticket sales turn around for Wicked, anticipate the introduction of incentives to boost ticket sales in September, even perhaps Newsies -style, with short vertical discount offers that sell the unsold ticket inventory laid bare by too much inventory and not enough buyers, especially in the back-to-school season.
The Book of Mormon continues to lead with a stellar ticket sales records in capacity and an astounding average price paid of $186.41, which indicates their continued ability to wrestle the profits for this show away from ticket brokers and into the hands of the producers, hotel edison and new york city where they rightfully belong. The long in the tooth Chicago managed to eek out a surprising 85.96% capacity, by combining big online and TDF TKTS ticket discounts and pushing big group discounts. The Lion King remains the top dog in sales due to the popular summer vacation, but is anticipated to falter as school starts in September.
Although it has an open ended run, Nice Work If You Can Get It looks like it s heading to the chopping block with a dismal 50% of tickets sold, the very worst performing show on Broadway. Their average paid admission also took a dive to $86, from previous weeks at $100, which seemed oddly high compared to the percentage of unsold ticket inventory although their management team have been surprisingly reluctant to pursue all available marketing avenues, so they could yet turn their sagging ticket sales around.
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