MJ and A Unusual Loop noticed Tony Award glory translate into field workplace surges within the week after the June 12 ceremony, with MJ leaping by $216,921 over the earlier week’s take to an enormous $1,660,978. A Unusual Loop grossed $845,313 for the week ending June 19, a bounce of $168,998 over the earlier week.
Each reveals have been digital sell-outs, with greater than 99% of seats occupied within the week following their Tony wins (amongst their victories, A Unusual Loop was named Finest Musical, and MJ‘s Myles Frost was named Finest Actor in a Main Function/Musical. Each productions gave spectacular performances throughout the Tony broadcast, with Frost and Unusual Loop‘s Jaquel Spivey delivering star-making community TV debuts.)
One other massive winner of the week: The musical Six, which took dwelling Tonys for unique rating and costumes and, as importantly if no more so, delivered a rousing efficiency throughout the ceremony. For its seven performances, the musical grossed $1,171,935, filling 99.5% of obtainable seats.
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Different Tony winners noticed much less notable monetary good points, with Firm, named Finest Musical Revival, posting a July 31 closing discover tonight after promoting solely 77% of obtainable seats within the week after the awards. The musical, starring Katrina Lenk and Tony winners Patti LuPone and Matt Doyle, grossed $727,178 for the week, an enchancment of $86,881 over the earlier week.
Paradise Sq. noticed a noticeable b.o. bounce, up $124,523 to $387,670, with each penny nearly definitely attributable to the Tony win – and show-stealing efficiency of the anthem “Let It Burn” – of Finest Actress/Musical Joaquina Kalukango. Nonetheless, the musical, which didn’t overly impress most critics, stuffed solely 64% of its accessible seats within the post-Tony week.
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Total, Broadway field workplace for the week ending June 19 totaled $29,523,307, a drop of about 7% from the earlier week, a dip at the very least partly because of two fewer reveals on the roster – 29 productions in comparison with the earlier week’s 31 (How I Realized To Drive and Take Me Out had closed the earlier week).
Additionally taking a toll on the week’s receipts was the absence of Hugh Jackman (because of a constructive Covid take a look at) from The Music Man: The vastly in style musical revival was down by $1,631,334, grossing $1,780,050 and filling solely 71% its often sold-out home. Nonetheless, the revival hit a stable mark throughout the week: Gross ticket gross sales surpassed $100M for the engagement to this point.
Humorous Lady, one other current Covid-struck manufacturing, took in $1,131,490, rebounding by $14,795 as star Beanie Feldstein returned for a partial week of performances whereas additionally asserting her late-September departure.
Of their closing weeks of performances, Hangmen grossed $358,976, whereas Lady From the North Nation took $342,228.
Season to this point, Broadway has grossed $124,014,910, with whole attendance of 961,115 at about 83% of capability.
The 29 productions reporting figures on Broadway final week have been Aladdin; American Buffalo; Beetlejuice; The Guide of Mormon; Chicago; Come From Away; Firm; Pricey Evan Hansen; Humorous Lady; Lady From The North Nation; Hadestown; Hamilton; Hangmen; Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one; The Lion King; Macbeth; MJ; The Minutes; Moulin Rouge!; Mr. Saturday Evening; The Music Man; Paradise Sq.; The Phantom of the Opera; Plaza Suite; POTUS; Six; A Unusual Loop; Tina; and Depraved.
All figures courtesy of the Broadway League.
