Broadway Grosses w/e 10/15/2017: Tourists stick around Post-Columbus Day
Usually, grosses take a high single-digit dive after a long weekend, but not last week. Our post-Columbus Day week was only off 1% from the previous weekend (partly due to a very strong Columbus Day itself).
Several new shows are helping to keep those aggregate numbers up, including M. Butterfly, Junk, and the highly anticipated The Band’s Visit, which arrived with a partial week gross of almost $769k.
And, of course, Bruce Springsteen is keeping our ball in the air, with his five performance gross of almost $2mm.
Expect numbers to bounce up and down a bit over the next few weeks (especially during the hated Halloween week), but overall our box office should be pretty stable, as a couple of the new shows (including this one) make up for the departing War Paint.
Here are the Broadway grosses from last week:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $786,637.27 | 7,949 | 95.17% | $98.96 |
| ALADDIN | $1,492,666.50 | 13,552 | 98.09% | $110.14 |
| ANASTASIA | $934,649.30 | 8,655 | 94.65% | $107.99 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $985,332.20 | 8,022 | 97.73% | $122.83 |
| CATS | $773,571.00 | 9,319 | 84.72% | $83.01 |
| CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY | $830,749.50 | 9,342 | 78.06% | $88.93 |
| CHICAGO | $681,794.05 | 7,680 | 88.89% | $88.78 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,336,265.10 | 8,520 | 101.82% | $156.84 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,667,748.30 | 7,995 | 101.56% | $208.60 |
| HAMILTON | $2,930,747.00 | 10,753 | 101.75% | $272.55 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $2,371,088.47 | 11,703 | 101.17% | $202.61 |
| JUNK | $530,185.00 | 7,051 | 83.23% | $75.19 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $923,848.30 | 9,570 | 84.01% | $96.54 |
| M. BUTTERFLY | $521,365.50 | 6,145 | 83.05% | $84.84 |
| MISS SAIGON | $669,749.94 | 8,019 | 67.96% | $83.52 |
| PRINCE OF BROADWAY | $370,381.90 | 4,294 | 86.99% | $86.26 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $888,258.60 | 9,507 | 78.03% | $93.43 |
| SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY | $1,924,817.50 | 4,695 | 100.00% | $409.97 |
| THE BAND’S VISIT | $768,914.00 | 7,334 | 99.97% | $104.84 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,251,158.00 | 8,687 | 101.86% | $144.03 |
| THE LION KING | $2,079,369.00 | 13,562 | 99.96% | $153.32 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,090,447.96 | 11,934 | 92.94% | $91.37 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $397,689.00 | 5,674 | 83.05% | $70.09 |
| THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER | $296,115.68 | 6,195 | 76.82% | $47.80 |
| TIME AND THE CONWAYS | $294,510.19 | 5,384 | 91.69% | $54.70 |
| WAITRESS | $762,631.10 | 7,773 | 92.98% | $98.11 |
| WAR PAINT | $600,188.00 | 7,629 | 81.65% | $78.67 |
| WICKED | $1,767,617.00 | 14,625 | 97.94% | $120.86 |
| TOTALS | $29,928,495.36 | 241,568 | 90.92% | $122.67 |
| + / – THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$4,559,445.85 | |||
| PERCENTAGE + / – THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +17.97% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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