Broadway Grosses w/e 10/22/2017: Slow and steady before it gets spooky.

It’s a pretty slow and steady October so far, with not a lot of new musicals (the box office movers and shakers) hitting the boards . . . hence the minuscule bump over the prior week.

 

Overall, we’re up a good 12% from last season . . . thanks in part to The Boss, who is averaging over $500/ticket for his ultra-premium experience.

 

The Band’s Visit is off to a super start, pulling in $872k this week, showing that our audience’s appetite for unique entertainment (as evidenced by last season’s success stories) is spilling over into this season.

 

And M. Butterfly and Junk are both making good additions to our lineups . . . the latter buoyed by subscriptions, of course, but hey, it all spends the same, am I right?

 

Scanning down this list and doing some quick hypothe-guessing on operating costs, and I see a lot of shows in the black.

 

Now, that will change a bit when a black cat from Halloween crosses our path all too soon.

 

Here are the Broadway grosses from last week:

 

Show Name   GrossGross TotalAttn  %Capacity AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL $784,397.94 7,816 93.58% $100.36
ALADDIN $1,428,092.50 13,296 96.24% $107.41
ANASTASIA $952,881.10 8,657 94.67% $110.07
BEAUTIFUL $973,875.75 7,861 95.77% $123.89
CATS $720,971.50 8,667 78.79% $83.19
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY $739,173.00 8,952 74.80% $82.57
CHICAGO $626,650.10 7,363 85.22% $85.11
COME FROM AWAY $1,311,310.00 8,517 101.78% $153.96
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $1,666,830.60 7,987 101.46% $208.69
HAMILTON $2,917,295.00 10,757 101.79% $271.20
HELLO, DOLLY! $2,403,481.72 11,533 99.70% $208.40
JUNK $558,252.00 7,582 89.49% $73.63
KINKY BOOTS $896,855.55 9,652 84.73% $92.92
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS $312,337.00 2,633 87.42% $118.62
M. BUTTERFLY $640,097.30 7,489 88.56% $85.47
MISS SAIGON $683,170.00 8,331 70.60% $82.00
PRINCE OF BROADWAY $365,070.00 4,378 88.70% $83.39
SCHOOL OF ROCK $860,805.80 9,109 74.76% $94.50
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY $2,376,370.00 4,730 100.00% $502.40
THE BAND’S VISIT $872,163.00 8,374 100.07% $104.15
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,251,643.00 8,711 102.15% $143.69
THE LION KING $2,038,474.00 13,507 99.55% $150.92
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $1,007,984.32 11,551 89.96% $87.26
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $414,902.75 5,692 83.31% $72.89
THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER $367,633.80 6,252 77.53% $58.80
TIME AND THE CONWAYS $356,265.31 4,833 82.31% $73.72
WAITRESS $776,450.00 7,863 94.06% $98.75
WAR PAINT $631,435.00 7,605 81.39% $83.03
WICKED $1,695,922.00 14,305 98.96% $118.55
TOTALS $30,630,790.04 244,003 90.25% $126.19
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +$3,188,915.59      
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +11.6%

 

*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.

 

 

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