Massive vacation ticket costs, bonus performances and enormous audiences spurred a hefty surge of almost 50% in Broadway field workplace final week (ending Jan. 1) over the earlier week, with productions together with Humorous Woman, MJ, Six, Beetlejuice and & Juliet among the many reveals smashing home data.
With 20 of the 33 reveals including a ninth holiday-week efficiency to the standard eight-performance schedule, and total ticket costs up 14% for the New Yr’s week, Broadway grossed a formidable $51,912,226, a soar of 49% from the week ending Dec. 25. Attendance was up 31% to 311,447. Broadway’s common ticket worth, with premium vacation costs figures in, was $166.68, in comparison with $146.02 the earlier week.
In all, about 92% of the week’s Broadway seats had been occupied, in comparison with 84% throughout Christmas week.
And in comparison with final yr’s New Years week field workplace tally of $26M, the trade was up an enormous 97%.
The total homes and better costs resulted within the anticipated raft of damaged home data. Among the many reveals setting new field workplace tally highs at their respective venues had been:
- Six, promoting out on the just lately renamed Lena Horne Theater and grossing $1,649,206 for eight performances, besting the earlier report of $1,626,478 set by Waitress in January 2018 on the then-named Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Common ticket worth was $200, up from $160 the earlier week;
- Humorous Woman set a brand new field workplace report on the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $2,405,901 for a nine-performance week. The revival set the earlier home report with an eight-performance take of $2,005,696 in December. Common ticket worth final week was $235, up from $223;
- Beetlejuice set a brand new nine-performance report on the Marquis with $2,462,831. The quantity was completed even with out star Alex Brightman within the title function (the actor suffered a concussion throughout an on-stage mishap through the Christmas Eve efficiency); common ticket jumped $40 to $169;
- & Juliet broke the nine-performance report on the Stephen Sondheim Theatre with a take of $1,639,788. The earlier report of $1,546,950 was set by Lovely in 2014, and a rep for & Juliet notes that the accomplishment was achieved with a decrease vacation premium worth ($325 in comparison with Lovely‘s $350). The typical ticket worth for & Juliet was $177, solely a bit greater than the Carole King musical’s $175;
- MJ broke its tenth home report on the Neil Simon Theatre with a take of $2,223,069; common ticket was $200;
- Chicago bested its personal vacation week report, set in pre-pandemic 2017 on the Ambassador Theatre, with a gross of $1,299,400 and a $132 common ticket worth.
Additionally of notice, The Piano Lesson was one of many highest grossing non-musical performs of the week with a take of $1,140,437 on the Ethel Barrymore, making the revival the very best grossing August Wilson play ever on Broadway. The manufacturing has been prolonged by means of January 29. The non-musical Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby took in $2.7M for the week, a determine the productions says is the very best weekly gross for a non-musical in Broadway historical past, breaking its personal report set in 2018.
Different reveals within the $1 million+ vacation membership had been: A Lovely Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical ($1,425,882); Aladdin ($2,849,723); Nearly Well-known ($1,055,042); Hadestown ($1,279,810); Hamilton ($2,740,599); Into the Woods ($1,892,625); Moulin Rouge! ($1,975,132); Some Like It Sizzling ($1,176,786); The Ebook of Mormon ($1,680,124); The Lion King (with an incredible $4,315,264 and common ticket of $285); The Music Man ($3,971,531, common ticket additionally $285); The Phantom of the Opera ($2,788,017); and Depraved ($3,152,679).
A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mays performed its remaining week, slipping by simply over $200,000 from Christmas Week to $522,424.
Season up to now, Broadway has grossed $965,623,088, with whole attendance of seven,442,244 at about 87% of capability.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For the whole field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
