Broadway Grosses w/e 6/25/2017 – Indecent leads a Non Indecent Week!

By Ken Davenport

Nothing like a little scarcity to drive some ticket sales, am I right?

Playgoers seemed to vanish this past spring. Well, that’s probably not true. They’re all probably just wearing dark glasses and fake mustaches and are buying tickets to all the musicals in town.

But tell them that something that they’ve heard is fantastic is about to close, and they rip off those disguises to show up and support.

Of course, I’m talking about Indecent, which had posted a closing notice for this past Sunday . . . and then tore it down, as tickets sold like hotcakes at a hotcake convention in Hotcake City. Their final number was over $600k, as they now continue their run into the summer.

It was a good week for plays overall, as Oslo did a cool 700k on the heels of its Tony win, Present Laughter (soon to be available on BroadwayHD) grossed $850k, A Doll’s House Part II did over $500k, and Sweat did over $400k.

Maybe the playwrights’ bit on the Tony Awards was a good thing after all?

These were just a few of the shows that again buoyed our box office another 2%, putting us up 20% over last season, with 6% more butts in seats. And that’s despite, believe it or not, fewer shows on Broadway this season than last year at this time. Pretty snazzy, huh?

Thank the two shows that did $2mm plus (Hello, Dolly! and The Lion King) and the $3mm show you’ve never heard of called Hamilton.

In all, 15 shows grossed over a million bucks. See how your faves did below.

Show Name	GrossGross	TotalAttn	%Capacity	AvgPdAdm
1984	$337,503.32	6,737	86.82%	$50.10
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL	$786,286.30	7,742	92.70%	$101.56
A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2	$504,781.50	5,701	91.95%	$88.54
ALADDIN	$1,578,260.50	13,528	97.92%	$116.67
ANASTASIA	$1,142,508.70	9,190	100.50%	$124.32
BANDSTAND	$612,338.95	6,925	83.80%	$88.42
BEAUTIFUL	$794,601.38	6,937	84.52%	$114.55
CATS	$757,687.00	8,591	78.10%	$88.20
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY	$1,305,410.40	11,903	99.46%	$109.67
CHICAGO	$604,688.57	7,211	83.46%	$83.86
COME FROM AWAY	$1,214,305.00	8,531	101.95%	$142.34
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	$1,286,865.56	7,964	101.17%	$161.59
GROUNDHOG DAY	$810,886.85	8,281	84.29%	$97.92
HAMILTON	$3,043,232.00	10,755	101.77%	$282.96
HELLO, DOLLY!	$2,305,481.08	11,698	101.12%	$197.08
INDECENT	$606,136.80	8,157	95.03%	$74.31
KINKY BOOTS	$1,333,988.80	11,362	99.74%	$117.41
MARVIN’S ROOM	$214,401.00	4,693	79.92%	$45.69
MISS SAIGON	$847,808.44	10,346	74.45%	$81.95
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812	$1,353,992.66	9,090	99.85%	$148.95
ON YOUR FEET!	$655,588.00	7,994	61.45%	$82.01
OSLO	$737,558.00	7,734	92.34%	$95.37
PRESENT LAUGHTER	$855,228.10	8,474	75.82%	$100.92
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$1,070,601.28	11,022	90.46%	$97.13
SUNSET BOULEVARD	$1,124,909.50	10,195	86.74%	$110.34
SWEAT	$411,995.21	5,140	97.50%	$80.15
THE BOOK OF MORMON	$1,267,123.00	8,706	102.09%	$145.55
THE LION KING	$2,146,165.00	13,569	100.01%	$158.17
THE LITTLE FOXES	$525,883.90	4,852	93.31%	$108.38
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA	$1,110,011.90	12,107	94.29%	$91.68
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG	$362,877.25	5,285	77.36%	$68.66
WAITRESS	$822,563.00	7,805	93.36%	$105.39
WAR PAINT	$766,231.90	7,497	80.23%	$102.21
WICKED	$1,975,981.00	15,402	99.96%	$128.29
TOTALS	$35,273,881.85	301,124	90.69%	$111.48
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON	+$6,350,205.89
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON	+22%