Young Frankenstein Pulls in a Scarily Good First Haul
October 16, 2007 Alfred Branch Jr.
Although “Young Frankenstein” producers Mel Brooks and Robert F.X. Sillerman have decided not to report sales figures for their new, big-budget musical, a combination of digging and number-crunching by Variety yielded an estimated box office tally of about $875,000.
That’s net gross for an abbreviated week of four previews. The monster sum lands “Frankenstein” in the No. 6 spot in the top 10, and pushes the show’s average ticket price up to about $205. (A cluster of “Frank” seats carry a premier pricetag of $450, while another chunk sell for $375.)
“Frankenstein” makes the tally for the other new entry of the week — the Kevin Kline-Jennifer Garner starrer “Cyrano de Bergerac” ($344,031 for three previews) — look like small change, even though that production’s inaugural outing broke the first-night record at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
