Broadway Grosses w/e 3/11/2018: Has March gone mad?

This past week on Broadway felt like an airplane trying to take off in a snowstorm.

See, this current week is when spring breaks start at various schools across the country.  Private high schools and colleges start to send students our way around now, and then public schools will close their doors around Easter time after that.

All that means that blue skies are ahead.

But last week, we were struggling to get our nose up in the air, which wasn’t helped by that actual nor’easter that dumped snow in our backyard and felled trees all over the suburbs.

But the weekend showed some life, which is why we ended up over the previous week, and has us up 15.7% over last year.  The week also got an assist from Sara Bareilles’ last few performances (ever?) in Waitress and Frozen’s $1.4mm gross (another Disney show, another $1mm/week gross – how long before it hits $2mm?).

Mean Girls, one of the faves for the Best Musical Tony started previews last night, which means we’ll get another lift next week.  Like, could there be a better show for the spring breakers?  It’s as if the Producers planned it that way.  As if!

Here are the Broadway grosses for the week ending March 11th, 2018:

Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Capacity AvgPdAdm
A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL $592,040.19 6,550 78.42% $90.39
ALADDIN $1,262,334.50 13,394 96.95% $94.25
ANASTASIA $852,358.64 8,310 90.88% $102.57
ANGELS IN AMERICA $994,784.50 9,607 96.51% $103.55
BEAUTIFUL $664,160.40 7,135 86.93% $93.08
CAROUSEL $865,506.50 8,234 82.37% $105.11
CHICAGO $615,363.35 7,504 86.85% $82.00
COME FROM AWAY $1,130,055.45 8,337 99.63% $135.55
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $1,654,007.60 7,924 100.66% $208.73
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE $625,317.00 9,907 76.16% $63.12
FARINELLI AND THE KING $649,191.80 6,788 80.73% $95.64
FROZEN $1,453,464.00 11,614 98.76% $125.15
HAMILTON $3,149,330.00 10,753 101.75% $292.88
HELLO, DOLLY! $954,836.07 9,902 85.60% $96.43
KINKY BOOTS $791,450.80 8,613 75.61% $91.89
LOBBY HERO $372,854.50 4,260 91.65% $87.52
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND $478,593.66 5,335 95.82% $89.71
SCHOOL OF ROCK $712,808.00 8,652 71.01% $82.39
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS $620,203.00 8,897 78.94% $69.71
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY $2,396,015.00 4,740 100.00% $505.49
THE BAND’S VISIT $802,835.50 7,046 84.77% $113.94
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,122,085.50 8,664 103.24% $129.51
THE LION KING $1,774,590.00 13,571 100.02% $130.76
THE PARISIAN WOMAN $467,852.50 5,839 74.71% $80.13
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $916,123.80 10,625 82.75% $86.22
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $303,968.00 4,368 63.93% $69.59
THREE TALL WOMEN $497,065.50 5,179 94.01% $95.98
WAITRESS $1,133,417.10 7,412 88.66% $152.92
WICKED $1,572,946.00 14,753 98.80% $106.62
TOTALS $29,425,558.86 243,913 88.49% $123.48
+/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +$1,749,927.45      
PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON +6.32%

*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.

 

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