Broadway Grosses w/e 1/7/2018: Neither snow nor rain nor bitter cold!
That bomb cyclone we had last week was like a full moon . . . on acid . . . and a whole box of Hostess Ring Dings.
Things were just off. Except, thank goodness, at the box office, where the street still raked in $32.2 million, up a strong 9% since a year ago. (Oh what are we going to do without Dolly and Bruce? Oh wait, we’ll have Elsa and Harry.)
Why did we have a decent week, despite our deep freeze?
When hotel prices started going through the roof some years ago, I noticed that the week after Xmas/New Year’s started doing a bit better than previous years. I’ve always attributed the less than precipitous drop to the bargain shoppers who wanted to come to the city this time of year but weren’t about to pay prime time prices.
The proof for my theory? The shows that did well were the family shows, including SpongeBob, who came up just shy of $1mm, and even Charlie, who will be closing his factory soon, did almost $1.3mm.
This coming week will drop but not as much as we might think because it’s already our first three day weekend of the year. We just may skate through this icy winter with fewer bumps and bruises than usual.
Here are last week’s grosses:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $770,783.65 | 7,751 | 92.80% | $99.44 |
| ALADDIN | $1,700,096.00 | 13,776 | 99.71% | $123.41 |
| ANASTASIA | $1,032,519.40 | 8,033 | 100.40% | $128.53 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $707,806.48 | 6,351 | 77.38% | $111.45 |
| CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY | $1,277,068.70 | 11,879 | 99.26% | $107.51 |
| CHICAGO | $770,638.90 | 7,243 | 83.83% | $106.40 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,286,044.90 | 8,501 | 101.59% | $151.28 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,744,819.50 | 7,990 | 101.50% | $218.38 |
| FARINELLI AND THE KING | $814,072.00 | 8,034 | 95.55% | $101.33 |
| HAMILTON | $3,132,598.00 | 10,756 | 101.78% | $291.24 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $2,206,170.14 | 11,606 | 100.33% | $190.09 |
| JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART | $259,548.30 | 5,200 | 87.84% | $49.91 |
| JUNK | $465,747.00 | 6,292 | 74.27% | $74.02 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $870,141.90 | 8,735 | 76.68% | $99.62 |
| LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS | $497,135.40 | 5,882 | 83.69% | $84.52 |
| METEOR SHOWER | $709,510.40 | 5,058 | 93.36% | $140.27 |
| MISS SAIGON | $1,057,336.75 | 12,106 | 87.12% | $87.34 |
| ONCE ON THIS ISLAND | $590,063.50 | 5,132 | 92.17% | $114.98 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $1,015,870.50 | 9,829 | 80.67% | $103.35 |
| SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS | $971,928.60 | 11,717 | 90.97% | $82.95 |
| THE BAND’S VISIT | $1,056,889.00 | 8,278 | 99.59% | $127.67 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,328,785.00 | 8,634 | 101.24% | $153.90 |
| THE CHILDREN | $217,787.60 | 3,770 | 72.50% | $57.77 |
| THE LION KING | $2,622,799.00 | 15,141 | 99.19% | $173.22 |
| THE PARISIAN WOMAN | $407,627.50 | 5,740 | 73.44% | $71.02 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,233,620.80 | 12,655 | 98.56% | $97.48 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $453,676.51 | 5,844 | 85.54% | $77.63 |
| WAITRESS | $1,079,800.10 | 8,250 | 98.68% | $130.88 |
| WICKED | $1,926,621.00 | 15,014 | 97.44% | $128.32 |
| TOTALS | $32,207,506.53 | 255,197 | 91.28% | $120.14 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$2,639,615.22 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | + 8.93% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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