Final week’s Tony Award nominations translated into field workplace gross sales for not less than among the contenders, with A Unusual Loop seeing the largest enhance: The musical, which topped the Tony listing with 11 nominations, noticed a $213,871 enhance in its weekly grosses, taking in $690,668 for the week ending Might 15.
Total, the 35 Broadway productions grossed $30,349,653, a slight 3% dip from the earlier week’s $31,199,660, a decline largely attributable to the $1,054,792 drop in field workplace at Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which canceled 4 of its traditional eight performances resulting from Covid circumstances among the many forged. Moulin, with Broadway favourite Derek Klena now main the forged, took in $537,705 for 4 performances, filling 91% of accessible seats.
Additionally shedding floor was Lincoln Middle Theater’s The Pores and skin of Our Tooth, which canceled three performances resulting from Covid, dropping $58,736 from the earlier week to $115,745 for its 5 performances.
Complete attendance for the 35 productions was 246,003, down about 1% from the earlier week’s 36-show roster (The Little Prince closed Might 8).
Matthew Murphy
Different productions that confirmed some post-nomination field workplace features have been American Buffalo (up $21,662 to $536,164); for coloured ladies who’ve thought of suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (up $90,261 to $249,354); Lady From The North Nation (up $14,524 to $289,305); Hangmen (up $35,893 to $288,436); How I Realized To Drive (up $47,908 to $364,925); Paradise Sq. (up $41,935 to $235,604); POTUS (up $81,191 to $461,864 ); Six (up $28,167 to $1,190,681) and The Minutes (up $40,615 to $386,898 ). MJ held even at $1,352,143, whereas each Firm (up $102,851 to $719,968 ) and Take Me Out (up $123,042 to $474,951) confirmed noticeable upswings in per week that noticed Tony nominations and non-award headlines for every (see right here and right here).
Mr. Saturday Night time, which obtained 5 Tony nominations together with one for star Billy Crystal, was up by $293,436 (to $858,847 for seven performances) after enjoying solely 5 performances the earlier week resulting from non-Covid sickness.
Nonetheless, even with the post-nomination bumps, the roster was displaying some pressure underneath the load of all of the latest openings (15 in April), with no fewer than 10 exhibits filling solely 65% or much less of their obtainable seats: Beetlejuice, Birthday Candles, Come From Away, For Coloured Women, Lady From The North Nation, Hangmen, Mrs. Doubtfire, POTUS, The Phantom of The Opera and The Pores and skin of Our Tooth.
On the different finish of the spectrum, filling greater than 90% of their seats: Aladdin, Humorous Lady, Hadestown, Hamilton, Macbeth, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Plaza Suite, Six, Take Me Out, The Guide of Mormon, The Lion King and, promoting out, The Music Man.
Common ticket value for all exhibits for the week was $123 with Humorous Lady, Hadestown, Hamilton, Macbeth, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night time, Plaza Suite, Six, The Guide of Mormon, The Lion King and Depraved hitting that common value or increased, and The Music Man topping all of them with a $275 common value.
Season to this point, Broadway has grossed $812,064,730, with attendance of 6,471,585 at 82% of capability.
The 35 productions reporting figures on Broadway final week have been Aladdin; American Buffalo; Beetlejuice; Birthday Candles; The Guide of Mormon; Chicago; Come From Away; Firm; Expensive Evan Hansen; for coloured ladies who’ve thought of suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; Humorous Lady; Lady From The North Nation; Hadestown; Hamilton; Hangmen; Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one; How I Realized To Drive; The Lion King; MJ; The Minutes; Moulin Rouge!; Mr. Saturday Night time; Mrs. Doubtfire; The Music Man; Paradise Sq.; The Phantom of the Opera; Plaza Suite; POTUS; Six; The Pores and skin of Our Tooth; A Unusual Loop; Take Me Out; Tina; and Depraved.
All figures courtesy of the Broadway League.
