Broadway Grosses w/e 12/03/2017: Light up the tree and light up those grosses!

Holiday shopping time is truly upon us as the first weekend after Thanksgiving has come and gone.  And while the lighting of the Rockefeller tree usually presses the pause button on ticket purchases for a few hours, the street proved pretty resilient and held its own against the previous Thanksgiving week.

 

And of course, we were up over the same frame from last year, grossing over $10mm more (Thank you, Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen).

 

Some standouts were the recently opened Parisian Women doing a strong $689k and Waitress well over $1mm (and just wait until you see this gross double when Sara Bareilles comes back to the role that she wrote).

 

And I’d expect all grosses to go up next week . . . including my own for Once On This Island after those reviews! (Yes, shameless plug.)

 

Here are the Broadway grosses from last week:

 

Show Name   GrossGross TotalAttn  %Capacity AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL $803,518.01 7,252 86.83% $110.80
ALADDIN $1,466,569.50 13,597 98.41% $107.86
ANASTASIA $951,114.70 8,172 89.37% $116.39
BEAUTIFUL $1,006,732.18 7,837 95.48% $128.46
CATS $778,991.00 8,308 75.53% $93.76
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY $846,297.70 9,066 75.75% $93.35
CHICAGO $583,649.10 6,790 78.59% $85.96
COME FROM AWAY $1,249,872.00 8,512 101.72% $146.84
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $1,753,527.20 7,977 101.33% $219.82
HAMILTON $2,837,331.00 10,734 101.57% $264.33
HELLO, DOLLY! $2,478,968.14 11,393 98.49% $217.59
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS $62,960.50 2,566 26.12% $24.54
JUNK $481,453.00 5,999 70.81% $80.26
KINKY BOOTS $922,382.90 9,776 85.81% $94.35
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS $457,364.00 4,980 70.86% $91.84
M. BUTTERFLY $409,934.44 4,555 53.46% $90.00
METEOR SHOWER $870,728.20 6,184 99.87% $140.80
MISS SAIGON $668,463.40 7,579 64.23% $88.20
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND $395,579.60 5,586 100.32% $70.82
SCHOOL OF ROCK $844,058.36 8,678 71.22% $97.26
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS $583,037.00 9,094 80.69% $64.11
THE BAND’S VISIT $1,092,929.40 8,312 100.00% $131.49
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,267,695.50 8,615 101.02% $147.15
THE CHILDREN $193,707.00 3,586 78.81% $54.02
THE LION KING $2,087,845.00 13,543 99.82% $154.16
THE PARISIAN WOMAN $689,133.50 7,478 95.68% $92.15
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $947,836.79 10,166 79.17% $93.24
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $380,965.50           4,500 65.87% $84.66
WAITRESS $1,045,172.60 7,766 92.89% $134.58
WICKED $1,825,028.00 13,927 96.34% $131.04
TOTALS $29,982,845.22 242,528 84.54% $114.99
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +$946,943.37      
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +3.26%

*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.

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