Broadway Grosses w/e 4/1/2018: The Easter Bunny Brings Good Business to Broadway.
The Broadway Box Office hopped ahead last week, thanks to the Easter/Passover and Spring Breaks taken by so many around the country.
One look at some of the top performers this week and you’ll get a sense of who was in the city. When Lion King does $3mm and SpongeBob does $1mm, you can bet that there are families in town.
But one of the most interesting grosses to me is the almost $1.5 that Mean Girls posted . . . in previews. That show had a good advance coming in, but posting these kinds of figures before opening suggests word-of-mouth is positive and getting traction.
Overall, we had five of the thirty-five shows running, or over 14% of all shows, put up grosses in excess of $2mm.
And if I had blog-dicted (that’s a “blog prediction” for those who don’t speak abrevs) that so many shows would be doing those sorts of #s a few years ago, you would have laughed me off the blogosphere.
But the only ones laughing now are those shows laughing all the way to the B-A-N-K.
And this week could be even better than the last.
Here are the Broadway grosses for the week ending April 1, 2018:
| Show Name | GrossGross | TotalAttn | %Capacity | AvgPdAdm |
| A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL | $710,184.40 | 8,000 | 95.79% | $88.77 |
| ALADDIN | $2,110,431.50 | 15,513 | 99.81% | $136.04 |
| ANASTASIA | $1,075,859.30 | 9,253 | 101.19% | $116.27 |
| ANGELS IN AMERICA | $933,031.00 | 9,595 | 96.39% | $97.24 |
| BEAUTIFUL | $686,326.60 | 7,987 | 97.31% | $85.93 |
| CAROUSEL | $1,070,265.34 | 10,059 | 88.05% | $106.40 |
| CHICAGO | $852,019.90 | 8,551 | 98.97% | $99.64 |
| CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD | $363,848.00 | 6,350 | 79.06% | $57.30 |
| COME FROM AWAY | $1,293,048.84 | 8,535 | 102.00% | $151.50 |
| DEAR EVAN HANSEN | $1,744,352.00 | 7,991 | 101.51% | $218.29 |
| ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE | $600,673.00 | 7,860 | 60.42% | $76.42 |
| FROZEN | $2,246,997.50 | 13,423 | 99.87% | $167.40 |
| HAMILTON | $2,882,014.00 | 10,735 | 101.58% | $268.47 |
| HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO | $1,589,033.00 | 9,732 | 100.00% | $163.28 |
| HELLO, DOLLY! | $1,111,874.17 | 11,320 | 97.86% | $98.22 |
| KINKY BOOTS | $1,043,121.20 | 10,913 | 95.80% | $95.59 |
| LOBBY HERO | $409,430.70 | 4,545 | 97.78% | $90.08 |
| MEAN GIRLS | $1,468,683.30 | 9,854 | 100.55% | $149.04 |
| MY FAIR LADY | $1,060,532.00 | 8,552 | 100.00% | $124.01 |
| ONCE ON THIS ISLAND | $594,645.90 | 5,160 | 92.67% | $115.24 |
| ROCKTOPIA | $761,838.10 | 11,498 | 81.89% | $66.26 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK | $1,298,597.00 | 12,263 | 100.65% | $105.90 |
| SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS | $1,034,963.00 | 12,292 | 95.43% | $84.20 |
| SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY | $1,925,795.00 | 3,792 | 100.00% | $507.86 |
| SUMMER | $568,993.00 | 5,358 | 91.12% | $106.20 |
| THE BAND’S VISIT | $870,462.58 | 7,419 | 89.26% | $117.33 |
| THE BOOK OF MORMON | $1,255,187.00 | 8,742 | 104.37% | $143.58 |
| THE ICEMAN COMETH | $968,161.90 | 6,324 | 100.00% | $153.09 |
| THE LION KING | $3,092,152.00 | 15,266 | 100.01% | $202.55 |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | $1,605,070.22 | 12,598 | 98.12% | $127.41 |
| THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG | $431,330.00 | 6,196 | 90.69% | $69.61 |
| THREE TALL WOMEN | $599,626.00 | 6,296 | 100.00% | $95.24 |
| TRAVESTIES | $151,212.20 | 2,468 | 85.22% | $61.27 |
| WAITRESS | $883,888.70 | 7,975 | 95.39% | $110.83 |
| WICKED | $2,723,040.00 | 17,190 | 99.17% | $158.41 |
| TOTALS | $42,016,688.35 | 319,605 | 95.37% | $131.85 |
| +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +$7,569,639.92 | |||
| PERCENTAGE +/- THIS WEEK LAST SEASON | +22% |
*Broadway Grosses courtesy of The Broadway League.
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