How much did the industry gross last year?
Its gross last year was $13.7 million for 25 concerts, Billboard reported in April.
Its enormous box-office gross last weekend swelled a total Hollywood take that was up 20percentt from a year ago.
Other plays that had opened for a full week and earned less than 40 percent of their maximum possible gross last week were "Brief Encounter" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession," which are both productions of the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company.
"Bring It On," inspired by the 2000 movie about a high school cheerleading rivalry, took in only 39 percent of its maximum possible gross last week – in part because many choice seats were not on sale at three performances.
"Priscilla" earned $860,673, about 59 percent of the maximum possible gross last week; the show earned $920,741 during the playing week that included Memorial Day weekend, while it reached a low point of $547,180 in early September.
The record for a nine-performance week, which usually occur between Christmas and New Year's Day, was set at that time last year by "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" with $2.94 million.While "Spider-Man" had the fourth highest gross of any Broadway show last week, $1.78 million, the show's comparable gross last Thanksgiving week was about 17 percent higher, $2.07 million.
An emo-rock satire about the nation's seventh president, with a leading man - Benjamin Walker - who is a rising star rather than bankable one, "Bloody Bloody" had a relatively low gross last week for a musical -- $388,676 -- in its first week since opening on Oct. 13.
Four years later, Sun Associates, still with the same single customer, has quadrupled sales to post figures of $28 million gross this year.
As of December 31 , 2011 it had working interests in 3,190 gross (2,879 net) active producing oil wells and 1,423 gross (209 net) active producing gas wells.
I'm not going to predict what the film will gross this weekend, because it's too up-in-the-air.
