Broadway Ticket Sales Report
Week ending September 2, 2007

By Carol-Ann Rudy
TicketNews.com

It’s been a quiet week on The Great White Way, to paraphrase the Garrison Keillor/Lake Woebegone opening monologue line. But the lights are just as bright even though there are still only twenty-one productions on Broadway, all musicals. Of those, the top grossing five remain:
Wicked $1,480,508 at 100% capacity
The Lion King $1,262,397 at close to 99%
Jersey Boys $1,236,877 at 100%
Mary Poppins $1,097,633 at 96.5%
The Color Purple $976,236 at 87%

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee saw an almost 15% increase in attendance and Avenue Q a 9.5% increase.

The gross for this past week is up over the same week in the previous season, a difference of $6,874. Overall, the gross for the season to date is $261,846,697 compared to $238,408,247 for the season to date a year ago, which represents an increase to date of almost 10% and $23,438,450. Attendance is up almost 9% over the previous season too. . .

The Drowsy Chaperone continues to have the lowest reported ticket sales at $523,623 and almost 63% capacity, an improvement over the previous reporting period.

SCHEDULED OPENINGS:
The Farnsworth Invention a play by Aaron Sorkin about the race for the invention of television, will open to previews Oct. 15 with the opening scheduled for Nov. 18.

Broadway Gross Reports, September 2, 2007
All data provided by The League of American Theatres and Producers

Production
(Theatre)

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Weekly Gross

Total Atten.

Prev.

Perf.

Total Capacity

Avg. Ticket Price

Atten. %

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Chorus Line
(Schoenfeld)

$542,057

7,576

0

8

1,069

$71.55

88.6%

Avenue Q
(Golden)

$414,826

5,836

0

8

796

$71.08

91.6%

Chicago
(Ambassador)

$519,366

7,440

0

8

1,080

$69.81

86.1%

Curtains
(Hirschfeld)

$798,315

10,507

0

8

1,422

$75.98

92.4%

Grease
(Atkinson)

$892,270

8,656

0

8

1,072

$103.08

100.9%

Hairspray
(Neil Simon)

$856,831

11,385

0

8

1,428

$75.26

99.7%

Jersey Boys
(August Wilson)

$1,236,877

9,850

0

8

1,222

$125.57

100.8%

Legally Blonde
(Palace)

$900,393

11,424

0

8

1,691

$78.82

84.4%

Les Miserables
(Broadhurst)

$476,860

7,704

0

8

1,122

$61.90

85.8%

Mamma Mia!
(Cadillac Winter Garden)

$917,454

11,896

0

8

1,498

$77.12

99.3%

Mary Poppins
(New Amsterdam)

$1,097,633

13,830

0

8

1,791

$79.37

96.5%

Rent
(Nederlander)

$527,448

8,259

0

8

1,181

$63.86

87.4%

Spamalot
(Shubert)

$792,039

10,933

0

8

1,441

$72.44

94.8%

Spring Awakening
(O’Neill)

$763,857

8,709

0

8

1,090

$87.71

99.9%

The 25th…Bee
(Circle in Square)

$264,580

4,662

0

8

684

$56.75

85.2%

The Color Purple
(Broadway)

$976,236

11,969

0

8

1,718

$81.56

87.1%

The Drowsy Chaperone
(Marquis)

$523,623

7,980

0

8

1,611

$65.62

61.9%

The Lion King
(Minskoff)

$1,262,397

13,050

0

8

1,654

$96.74

98.6%

The Phantom of the Opera
(Majestic)

$735,090

10,739

0

8

1,607

$68.45

83.5%

Wicked
(Gershwin)

$1,480,508

14,472

0

8

1,809

$102.30

100.0%

Xanadu
(Hayes)

$344,555

4,358

0

8

596

$79.06

91.4%