‘Funny Girl’ Breaks House Record With $2M Take; ‘The Piano Lesson’ Tops Among Non-Musical Plays – Broadway Box Office
20.12.2022 - 23:19
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Funny Girl broke a house record with more than $2 million in receipts at the August Wilson Theatre, A Beautiful Noise continued its $1 million-plus weekly take, and The Piano Lesson topped the list of highest-grossing non-musical productions with $914,752, each contributing to Broadway’s $37M box office tally for the week ending Dec. 18.
Heading deeper into the holiday season, Broadway held even with the previous week’s box office, even with one fewer show on the roster (KPOP was gone). In all, the 34 shows grossed $37,287,623, with attendance of 275,724 at 86% of capacity.
At the Wilson, Funny Girl, starring (of course) Lea Michele, grossed $2,005,696, handily breaking the house record of $1,994,386 set by Mean Girls back in 2018. With attendance at 96% of capacity, Funny Girl had an average ticket price of $213.28, second only to The Music Man‘s $267.99 (for a gross of $3,249,366 at the Winter Garden).
Some other notable figures: Almost Famous, which has posted a Jan. 8 closing notice after struggling to find its audience, grossed $703,714 while filling only 68% of seats at the Jacobs. Next week might see a post-closing-notice bump among last-minute buyers, but an extension doesn’t seem in the cards.
Ain’t No Mo’, the critically lauded Broadway debut of playwright Jordan E. Cooper, garnered some needed financial support from such celebrities as Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, Tyler Perry, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, Shonda Rhimes, and Sara Ramirez, grossing a nice $499,303 for the week and filling 93% of seats at the Belasco. The buy-outs and support earned the show a one-week extension – so far – until Dec. 23, but the low average ticket price of $65.89 suggests the production still needs support among the