Broadway box office stayed strong last week, slipping a bit – about 8% – from the previous week’s record-setting tally of $51 million, settling in at $46,949,262 for the 40 productions. That’s a healthy 25% more than last year at this time.
Top earners for the week ending April 27 were the usuals: Good Night, And Good Luck ($3,940,942), Othello ($3,122,045), Wicked ($2,577,767), The Lion King ($2,320,605) and Glengarry Glen Ross ($2,306,952).
A slew of shows had their opening nights, with press and opening night comps taking bites from some. Floyd Collins opened at the Beaumont, slipping about $60,000 to $512,409, filling 82% of seats. Pirates! The Penzance Musical slipped by $21,601 to $488,275, with attendance at 98% of capacity at the Todd Haimes. With five heavily comped performances, Stranger Things: The First Shadow slipped $74,649, still landing at an impressive $1,080,720 and 95% of seats filled at the Marquis.
Dead Outlaw, which opened at the Longacre, bucked the downward trend, filling 91% of seats and jumping up $37,325 to $442,735.
Just In Time, the Bobby Darin jukebox musical starring Jonathan Groff, opened to standing room only audiences at Circle in the Square, grossing a big $905,517 even with heavy comps.
Real Women Have Curves took in $367,966 for its opening week at the James Earl Jones, with 86% of seats filled. Average ticket price was a small $51.
A few other notable numbers:
- Sunset Blvd. was at 84% of capacity for seven performances at the St. James – the Wednesday matinee was canceled due to sound problems, with Nicole Scherzinger serenading the audience with her now famous impromptu bullhorn performance. Gross was $995,813 for the week;
- The Picture of Dorian Gray had a planned seven-performance week, filling all available seats and grossing $1,319,219;
- John Proctor Is The Villain took in $516,354 at the Booth, with attendance at 98% of capacity;
- Both Boop! and Smash were below the 85% capacity mark, with the former at 76% for a gross of $549,829, and the latter at 83% and $980,975.
Season to date, Broadway, in the 49th week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $1,714,457,286, up about 20% over last year at this time, with total attendance of 13,313,016 up 17%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For complete box office visit the League’s website.
