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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by:	mikem 08:30 am EDT 03/15/14
In reply to:	ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 03:32 am EDT 03/15/14

I haven't seen the show either. Based on who's involved, I expected Rocky to be better received than it has been. I at least expected Ahrens and Flaherty to write a score that wasn't considered one of the weakest parts of the show. I don't know the financial details, but Rocky is struggling at the box office. It's around where After Midnight is, but After Midnight is in a much smaller house. Aladdin, Beautiful, and If/Then are significantly higher. Bridges and Gentlemen's Guide are lower. By gross % of potential, Rocky is the lowest of all of them. Some of that is from comps for critics, but it was just as low the week before. I would have expected Rocky's grosses at the onset to be stronger than they have been, for the reasons you say. The opening certainly built awareness of the non-theater crowd. We'll have to see whether word of mouth is strong, since I don't think the reviews are strong enough to drive ticket sales. Rocky is reminding me a little of 9 to 5, another musical that I thought would have had a bigger built-in audience than it apparently did. 9 to 5 closed by Labor Day; I sincerely hope that Rocky has a better fate.

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