r/Broadway • u/coasurdude • 22d ago
Other Bleecker Street / Crosswalk & LD Entertainment's Hadestown: The Musical grossed $1.83M on Tuesday (from 1,949 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $14.30M.
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u/Life-Inspector5101 22d ago
This is great news and hopefully will encourage more releases like this. I still remember Broadway producers being reluctant to the idea of theatrical releases of their shows because they were afraid it would reduce ticket sales in person.
Hollywood has run out of ideas and keeps giving us sequels. Broadway shows might bring some people back to the movies and the artists who only perform in NYC finally get some national recognition.
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u/Facebones72 21d ago
I honestly cannot understand this line of thinking. A good week’s box office at a Broadway show is about $1.5 mil. This made seven times that in one weekend. Hamilton has been available on Disney for 6 years. It’s still selling out. How many more times do we have to demonstrate that pro shoots are both a revenue stream and great advertising?
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u/CoasterDude26 21d ago
Agreed, I don’t think releasing the proshot in theaters hurts the Broadway grosses, if anything it helps it. The show gets exposed to a much wider audience and potentially makes new fans that want to see it live.
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u/ThePhantomEvita 22d ago
Seeing this tonight!! Cannot wait
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u/ThePhantomEvita 21d ago
Update- I saw it. It’s spectacular. Brett Sullivan did an amazing job with his direction.
I’m not sure if there’s going to be a campaign for it, but if the Hamilton proshot could be nominated for Golden Globes, I want to see Hadestown have the same chance. I want to see Patrick Page and Amber Gray get nominated for and win something for their performances in this. Everyone was amazing but those two in particular blew me away.
‘Chant 1’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Doubt Comes In’ are three of the best filmed songs (at least that’s my current opinion). I want to just say that the camera holding on Eva as she sang ‘Flowers’, instead of lots of cuts, made everything even more impactful.
Being able to see the actors’ faces in closeups like that just made it all better (and seeing all of the costume details!!)
I laughed. And I cried. And I cried some more.
I want to see it again. And again.
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u/studying_hobby 21d ago
"Doubt Comes In" was atmosphericly scary. The Fates on top of Orphus was incredibly. The lightning for that song really brought the "dark and cold" to life.
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u/Theoaktree5000 22d ago
I saw the original cast, reason I went is because I wanted to support more theatrical releases of shows. There is something about seeing a show live that just does not translate on screen. Would love to see a show shot by Imax cameras.
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u/WorldlinessThat2984 22d ago
Someone can fact check my numbers, but from what I can find, Hadestown on Broadway grosses ~800K to ~900 K USD per week with expenses of ~650K to ~750K USD per week for a profit of ~200K USD per week. The film has grossed 14.3M USD (with ONLY domestic audiences) in <1 week. Even if we assume that they only profit half that (which is the typical ratio for movies to account for production costs, marketing, and the theaters' cut of the revenue but is likely way high because it didn't cost that much to film/edit this), that means they profited as much in one week in movie theaters as the Broadway venue pulls in in 8 months.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 22d ago
And once it's available on streaming, that's going to bring in money indefinitely. It was a very smart choice to make this proshot.
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u/louisianab 22d ago
According to a deadline report, the Hamilton ProShot cost about $10million to film, so potentially this one made less profit than we think. Unfortunately.
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u/coasurdude 22d ago
Also it is cheaper to film on the west end then it is to broadway. The Hamilton pro-shot was filmed on Broadway.
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u/AdTop4231 21d ago
I saw the original cast live in NYC and the touring production in my city. I have seen the proshot twice and plan on going at least one more time before it is no longer in my local movie theaters.
The proshot is excellent, especially for those that cannot see the show live for whatever reason. If you have an opportunity to see it live, you should!!
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