A busy week on Broadway noticed three official openings (together with the Take Me Out return) and three additions to the line-up of previewing productions, with grosses for the 34-show roster leaping by 8% (to $32,314,920) over the earlier week.
Attendance for the week ending Nov. 13 was up 11% to 272,232.
Beginning with the openers, all critically well-received: Kimberly Akimbo on the Sales space took in $491,165 and crammed 94% of seats; Mike Birbiglia: The Previous Man & the Pool performed to 92% of capability on the non-prof Lincoln Middle’s Vivian Beaumont, grossing $290,305 for seven performances; and Take Me Out took $457,404, filling 56% of seats on the Schoenfeld. (Word: opening night time weeks embody press and different comps).
New to the roster had been a trio of productions that started previews:
- A Christmas Carol, starring Jefferson Mays – as all of the characters – started previews on the Nederlander forward of a Nov. 21 opening, grossing $165,804 for seven performances, with attendance at 93%. Search for receipts to develop with the vacation season;
- Ain’t No Mo’ started previews on the Belasco (opening night time is Dec. 1), grossing $87,354 for 5 performances, at 64% of capability;
- Ohio State Murders, the Adrienne Kennedy play starring Audra McDonald, started previews on the just lately renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (opening Dec. 8), grossing $145,011 for its first three performances, and at 58% of capability.
Some notable performers final week:
- Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt continued its sturdy run for its greatest week but on the Longacre, grossing a giant $1,176,995 for its fifth consecutive week above the $1M mark;
- MJ broke one other home file on the Neil Simon, grossing $1,815,353;
- Virtually Well-known, regardless of blended critiques, appeared to be constructing steam on the Jacobs, grossing a strong $815,750 with 83% of seats crammed;
- Some Like It Scorching crammed 92% of seats in previews on the Shubert, with a modest $66.90 common ticket worth protecting receipts at $622,409.
Cancelations impacted some productions, with A Unusual Loop shedding one efficiency as a result of a non-Covid sickness and grossing $514,415, 85% of capability on the Lyceum; KPOP lacking two performances and grossing $134,348 at Circle within the Sq. with a $37 common ticket worth; and Humorous Lady slipping at bit (to a nonetheless sturdy $1,640,222) with the absence (as a result of a again harm) of Lea Michele for one efficiency. The musical revival, with Julie Benko filling in for that efficiency, remained at a giant 97% of capability on the August Wilson.
Additionally of word, The Lion King was down by $223,347 to $1,537,809, however solely as a result of Sunday’s efficiency of the ever-powerful musical was comped and donated to the Leisure Group Fund (previously the Actors Fund) to mark the manufacturing’s twenty fifth anniversary.
Season to this point, Broadway has grossed $702,099,259, with whole attendance of 5,548,683 at about 87% of capability.
The 34 productions reporting figures on Broadway final week had been & Juliet, 1776, A Christmas Carol, Ain’t No Mo’, Aladdin, Virtually Well-known, A Lovely Noise, Beetlejuice, The Guide of Mormon, Chicago, Dying of a Salesman, Humorous Lady, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Youngster, Into the Woods, Kimberly Akimbo, KPOP, Leopoldstadt, The Lion King, Mike Birbiglia: The Previous Man & the Pool, The Music Man, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Ohio State Murders, The Phantom of the Opera, The Piano Lesson, Six, A Unusual Loop, Some Like It Scorching, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog, Strolling With Ghosts and Depraved.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League.
