Broadway Grosses w/e 10/27/2019: Ticket sales are getting spooky heading into Halloween
Last week’s overall grosses slipped just slightly more than 1% to $34M while attendance dipped 3% to 278k.
After five years on Broadway, Beautiful played its final performance to SRO crowds and had its best box office week since the 2014 holidays. Carole King looks to pass her baton to Tina Turner as the show based on her life plays to sold out houses at the Lunt-Fontanne.
David Byrne’s American Utopia had a nearly $300k jump over last week bringing in $910k for only six performances. It’s now on sale through February 2020.
You can find the rest of the figures below, courtesy of The Broadway League:
| Show Name | Gross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| AIN’T TOO PROUD | $1,530,810.16 | 11,082 | 97.28% | $138.13 |
| ALADDIN | $1,242,732.00 | 13,225 | 95.72% | $93.97 |
| AMERICAN UTOPIA | $910,605.76 | 5,744 | 99.62% | $158.53 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $1,209,465.40 | 8,258 | 100.61% | $146.46 |
| BEETLEJUICE | $1,079,678.50 | 11,254 | 94.22% | $95.94 |
| BETRAYAL | $678,448.70 | 6,399 | 77.21% | $106.02 |
| CHICAGO | $667,723.90 | 7,858 | 90.95% | $84.97 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,000,793.40 | 8,526 | 101.89% | $117.38 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,071,494.37 | 7,971 | 101.26% | $134.42 |
| DERREN BROWN: SECRET | $340,648.00 | 4,437 | 62.39% | $76.77 |
| FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME | $685,578.00 | 5,428 | 88.69% | $126.30 |
| FROZEN | $948,568.10 | 12,247 | 90.91% | $77.45 |
| HADESTOWN | $1,395,853.50 | 7,444 | 101.36% | $187.51 |
| HAMILTON | $2,965,824.00 | 10,753 | 101.52% | $275.81 |
| HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO | $1,001,780.00 | 12,976 | 100.00% | $77.20 |
| LINDA VISTA | $240,198.42 | 3,090 | 66.03% | $77.73 |
| MEAN GIRLS | $790,542.75 | 8,862 | 90.43% | $89.21 |
| MOULIN ROUGE! | $2,197,947.00 | 10,494 | 100.75% | $209.45 |
| OKLAHOMA! | $469,965.06 | 4,364 | 83.79% | $107.69 |
| SLAVE PLAY | $471,769.50 | 5,469 | 86.21% | $86.26 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,073,830.90 | 8,456 | 100.96% | $126.99 |
| THE GREAT SOCIETY | $404,145.00 | 5,097 | 60.11% | $79.29 |
| THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM | $335,445.00 | 3,739 | 72.69% | $89.72 |
| THE INHERITANCE | $602,019.00 | 5,377 | 73.30% | $111.96 |
| THE LIGHTNING THIEF | $173,120.00 | 3,368 | 39.24% | $51.40 |
| THE LION KING | $1,999,095.00 | 12,924 | 95.25% | $154.68 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $881,182.62 | 10,130 | 78.89% | $86.99 |
| THE ROSE TATTOO | $488,029.80 | 5,321 | 92.25% | $91.72 |
| THE SOUND INSIDE | $544,698.00 | 5,710 | 71.52% | $95.39 |
| TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL | $1,371,009.00 | 10,346 | 100.00% | $132.52 |
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | $2,217,401.16 | 11,679 | 101.73% | $189.86 |
| TOOTSIE | $866,273.80 | 9,112 | 71.10% | $95.07 |
| WAITRESS | $640,981.70 | 7,124 | 85.22% | $89.97 |
| WICKED | $1,486,184.50 | 13,823 | 95.62% | $107.52 |
| TOTALS | $33,983,842.00 | 278,087 | 87.31% | $116.77 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$849,857.87 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | 2.56% |
Today’s blog was guest-written by Ryan Conway, President of Architect Theatrical. Find out more here!
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