Broadway Grosses w/e 2/18/2018: A President everyone can get behind.
Whew.
It was beginning to look like we’d never have a bounce at the box office.
Thankfully, this past weekend was one of our three-day holidayerss (President’s Day!), which brought an influx of tourists, as so many public schools around the country were on vacation. And if you’re not at Disney, you might just be in NYC.
Nine shows jumped back into the million dollar club as we picked up almost 3% against last season’s numbers. As you’d expect, family shows had the biggest bounce, but we also saw the first of the spring shows hit the boards, with Escape to Margaritaville joining the boards and adding to our bottom line.
Business should continue to be strong through this week before we pull back a bit in March.
And then, the onslaught of new spring shows will begin.
The question will be, do all these shows expand our audience (which would be good), or do the same number of people come to see shows, and just spread themselves out over the many more options (which would be bad).
Stay tuned to find out.
Here are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 18th, 2018:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $780,479.61 | 7,772 | 93.06% | $100.42 |
| ALADDIN | $1,504,445.00 | 13,798 | 99.87% | $109.03 |
| ANASTASIA | $1,017,255.00 | 9,007 | 98.50% | $112.94 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $729,471.35 | 7,081 | 86.27% | $103.02 |
| CHICAGO | $709,932.23 | 7,793 | 90.20% | $91.10 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,296,909.86 | 8,528 | 101.91% | $152.08 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,790,798.46 | 7,984 | 101.42% | $224.30 |
| ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE | $396,813.00 | 3,069 | 94.37% | $129.30 |
| FARINELLI AND THE KING | $751,968.80 | 7,398 | 87.99% | $101.64 |
| HAMILTON | $3,088,002.00 | 10,756 | 101.78% | $287.10 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $1,006,192.58 | 10,728 | 92.74% | $93.79 |
| JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART | $419,780.60 | 5,090 | 85.98% | $82.47 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $858,691.30 | 9,085 | 79.75% | $94.52 |
| LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS | $665,850.60 | 6,466 | 92.00% | $102.98 |
| ONCE ON THIS ISLAND | $534,473.90 | 4,787 | 85.97% | $111.65 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $935,218.70 | 9,829 | 80.67% | $95.15 |
| SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS | $800,160.10 | 10,181 | 79.05% | $78.59 |
| THE BAND’S VISIT | $979,419.50 | 7,776 | 93.55% | $125.95 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,256,141.00 | 8,654 | 101.48% | $145.15 |
| THE LION KING | $2,029,508.00 | 13,573 | 100.04% | $149.53 |
| THE PARISIAN WOMAN | $484,841.50 | 6,017 | 76.98% | $80.58 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,016,059.80 | 11,154 | 86.87% | $91.09 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $377,775.75 | 5,341 | 78.18% | $70.73 |
| WAITRESS | $1,086,096.10 | 7,183 | 85.92% | $151.20 |
| WICKED | $1,818,771.00 | 14,666 | 98.22% | $124.01 |
| TOTALS | $26,335,055.74 | 213,716 | 90.91% | $120.33 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$760,527.84 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +2.97% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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