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 |
Weekly Gross |
Total Atten. |
Prev. |
Perf. |
Total Capacity |
Avg. Ticket Price |
Atten. % |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Chorus Line |
$542,057 |
7,576 |
0 |
8 |
1,069 |
$71.55 |
88.6% |
Avenue Q |
$414,826 |
5,836 |
0 |
8 |
796 |
$71.08 |
91.6% |
Chicago |
$519,366 |
7,440 |
0 |
8 |
1,080 |
$69.81 |
86.1% |
Curtains |
$798,315 |
10,507 |
0 |
8 |
1,422 |
$75.98 |
92.4% |
Grease |
$892,270 |
8,656 |
0 |
8 |
1,072 |
$103.08 |
100.9% |
Hairspray |
$856,831 |
11,385 |
0 |
8 |
1,428 |
$75.26 |
99.7% |
Jersey Boys |
$1,236,877 |
9,850 |
0 |
8 |
1,222 |
$125.57 |
100.8% |
Legally Blonde |
$900,393 |
11,424 |
0 |
8 |
1,691 |
$78.82 |
84.4% |
Les Miserables |
$476,860 |
7,704 |
0 |
8 |
1,122 |
$61.90 |
85.8% |
Mamma Mia! |
$917,454 |
11,896 |
0 |
8 |
1,498 |
$77.12 |
99.3% |
Mary Poppins |
$1,097,633 |
13,830 |
0 |
8 |
1,791 |
$79.37 |
96.5% |
Rent |
$527,448 |
8,259 |
0 |
8 |
1,181 |
$63.86 |
87.4% |
Spamalot |
$792,039 |
10,933 |
0 |
8 |
1,441 |
$72.44 |
94.8% |
Spring Awakening |
$763,857 |
8,709 |
0 |
8 |
1,090 |
$87.71 |
99.9% |
The 25th…Bee |
$264,580 |
4,662 |
0 |
8 |
684 |
$56.75 |
85.2% |
The Color Purple |
$976,236 |
11,969 |
0 |
8 |
1,718 |
$81.56 |
87.1% |
The Drowsy Chaperone |
$523,623 |
7,980 |
0 |
8 |
1,611 |
$65.62 |
61.9% |
The Lion King |
$1,262,397 |
13,050 |
0 |
8 |
1,654 |
$96.74 |
98.6% |
The Phantom of the Opera |
$735,090 |
10,739 |
0 |
8 |
1,607 |
$68.45 |
83.5% |
Wicked |
$1,480,508 |
14,472 |
0 |
8 |
1,809 |
$102.30 |
100.0% |
Xanadu |
$344,555 |
4,358 |
0 |
8 |
596 |
$79.06 |
91.4% |