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Hairspray, Wicked, Poppins and The Lion King: Summer Broadway Sizzles
Weekly Broadway Ticket Sales Report
By Carol-Ann Rudy
TicketNews.com
A good week! The five highest grossing productions on Broadway were: Wicked $1,468,400 at 100% capacity; The Lion King $1,291,898 at 100%; Jersey Boys $1,211,053 at 100%; Mary Poppins $1,191,101 at 98%; and Beauty and the Beast at almost 100% capacity.
Overall, ticket sales achieved $18,420,632 this past week, a slight drop from the previous week’s report of $18,547,128. That’s still an 8.6% increase in ticket sales over the same time last season and a 10% increase in attendance.
Other productions reporting full or almost full houses were: Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, and Spring Awakening.
Only Deuce, playing at the Music Box Theatre, dropped below the 50% capacity, reporting revenue of $193,561 with attendance just over 43%.
Xanadu opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre to good reviews and $230,521 in ticket sales. Attendance was reported to be 75%, down about 10% from the last reporting period when still in previews. However, the day after opening day, Xanadu had the honor of breaking the one-day ticket sales box-office record at the Hayes, at $150,000. Small potatoes compared to other theatres, but then the Hayes only seats 596.
Les Miserables saw a drop in attendance this past week of 11.4%; Rent saw a drop of about 10%.
Broadway Gross Reports, July 15, 2007
All data provided by The League of American Theatres and Producers
Production | Weekly Gross | Total Atten. | Prev. | Perf. | Total Capacity | Avg. Ticket Price | Atten. % |
110 in the Shade | $410,515 | 7,400 | 0 | 8 | 996 | $55.47 | 92.9% |
A Chorus Line | $562,586 | 7,631 | 0 | 8 | 1,069 | $73.72 | 89.2% |
Avenue Q | $380,003 | 5,585 | 0 | 8 | 796 | $68.04 | 87.7% |
Beauty and Beast | $1,095,124 | 12,059 | 0 | 8 | 1,509 | $90.81 | 99.9% |
Chicago | $552,860 | 7,920 | 0 | 8 | 1,080 | $69.81 | 91.7% |
Curtains | $821,457 | 10,595 | 0 | 8 | 1,422 | $77.53 | 93.1% |
Deuce | $193,561 | 3,494 | 0 | 8 | 1,009 | $55.40 | 43.3% |
Frost/Nixon | $534,389 | 7,725 | 0 | 8 | 1,070 | $69.18 | 90.2% |
Grey Gardens | $485,807 | 6,575 | 0 | 8 | 922 | $73.89 | 89.1% |
Hairspray | $809,462 | 11,499 | 0 | 8 | 1,428 | $70.39 | 100.7% |
Jersey Boys | $1,211,053 | 9,853 | 0 | 8 | 1,222 | $122.91 | 100.8% |
Legally Blonde | $939,285 | 11,351 | 0 | 8 | 1,691 | $82.75 | 83.9% |
Les Miserables | $527,806 | 7,807 | 0 | 8 | 1,122 | $67.61 | 87.0% |
Mamma Mia! | $940,187 | 12,005 | 0 | 8 | 1,498 | $78.32 | 100.2% |
Mary Poppins | $1,191,101 | 14,098 | 0 | 8 | 1,791 | $84.49 | 98.4% |
Old Acquaintance | $176,162 | 4,023 | 0 | 8 | 740 | $43.79 | 68.0% |
Rent | $307,926 | 5,772 | 0 | 8 | 1,181 | $53.35 | 61.1% |
Spamalot | $788,409 | 10,576 | 0 | 8 | 1,441 | $74.55 | 91.7% |
Spring Awakening | $769,264 | 8,516 | 0 | 8 | 1,090 | $90.33 | 97.7% |
The 25th…Bee | $226,323 | 3,992 | 0 | 8 | 684 | $56.69 | 73.0% |
The Color Purple | $974,904 | 12,280 | 0 | 8 | 1,718 | $79.39 | 89.3% |
The Drowsy Chaperone | $523,516 | 7,988 | 0 | 8 | 1,611 | $65.54 | 62.0% |
The Lion King | $1,291,898 | 13,233 | 0 | 8 | 1,654 | $97.63 | 100.0% |
The Phantom of the Opera | $790,363 | 11,931 | 0 | 8 | 1,607 | $66.24 | 92.8% |
The Year…Thinking | $217,751 | 4,178 | 0 | 7 | 782 | $52.12 | 76.3% |
Wicked | $1,468,400 | 14,472 | 0 | 8 | 1,809 | $101.46 | 100.0% |
Xanadu | $230,521 | 3,560 | 0 | 8 | 594 | $64.75 | 74.9% |
