Broadway Box Office Starting To Look Like Christmas: Grosses Up 10% To $37M
14.12.2022 - 00:51
/ deadline.com
The holiday spirit – at least the kind measured at the box office – seemed to arrive on Broadway last week, for some shows anyway. Obvious case in point: A Christmas Carol, starring Jefferson Mays in his tour de force as every last ghost, miser and Cratchit in the story, was up a bountiful 34% in receipts, taking in $742,010 and filling 83% of seats at the Nederlander.
In total, the 35 Broadway shows grossed $37,217,001 for the week ending Dec. 11, a 10% bump over the previous week. Attendance of 283,548 showed a 7% increase. Average ticket price for the week was $131.25.
Some Like It Hot opened to excellent reviews, jumping by nearly $125,000 over the previous week for a total take of $747,142. Expect a similar trajectory in the coming weeks.
Other strong performers in this countdown to Christmas include & Juliet at the Sondheim, grossing $1,152,409 with 95% of the house filled.
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical seems to have settled into a healthy run at the Broadhurst, grossing $1,447,503 with 95% of seats filled. That dollar figure represents the highest grossing musical in the history of the venue – the overall box office record is held by the special event production of Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway from 2011, which grossed $1.5M.
Funny Girl had its usual big take ($1,892,378), as did The Music Man ($3,389,857), Leopoldstadt ($1,078,215), The Piano Lesson ($938,103), The Phantom of the Opera ($2,020,245) and stalwarts from The Lion King to Hadestown. Kimberly Akimbo, filling 86% of seats at the Booth at $108 a pop took in $570,155.
Struggling to find ticket-buyers was Ain’t No Mo’, Jordan E. Cooper’s terrific Broadway debut, grossing just $164,592, with the Belasco only half-filled; Ohio State Murders