The week before Christmas turned out to be very profitable for Broadway with four productions topping the two million dollar mark and one of them even topping three million! Thirty-four shows ran last week and brought in a total of over $44 million with over 300,000 people attending a show.
The new film production of “Wicked” is setting records all around the world. The Broadway production is also continuing its success and topped the list last week with a draw of over $3 million. “Elf” broke a house record with its draw of over $2 million; “The Lion King” and “Hamilton” also brought in over $2 million each last week. Coming in at $1.78 million, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” rounded out the top five as 24 of the 34 shows made it into the Million Dollar Club last week.
Million Dollar Club:
“Wicked”
“The Lion King”
“Hamilton”
“Elf”
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
“The Great Gatsby”
“Aladdin”
“The Outsiders”
“MJ The Musical”
“Sunset Boulevard”
“Gypsy”
“Hell’s Kitchen”
“The Book of Mormon”
“Death Becomes Her”
“All In: Comedy About Love”
“Back to the Future”
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
“Oh, Mary!”
“Cabaret”
“& Juliet”
“Romeo & Juliet”
“SIX: The Musical”
“Suffs”
“Hadestown”
There were 27 of the 34 shows in the 90 Percent Club last week with 10 of them reaching at least 100 percent capacity! “The Outsiders” topped the list with 102.22 percent capacity.
The 90% Club:
“The Outsiders”
“Romeo & Juliet”
“Suffs”
“Hamilton”
“Chicago”
“Hadestown”
“All In: Comedy About Love”
“Oh, Mary!”
“Stereophonic”
“Wicked”
“The Lion King”
“The Great Gatsby”
“The Book of Mormon
“Elf”
“& Juliet”
“Aladdin”
“SIX: The Musical”
“Cabaret”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
“Death Becomes Her”
“MJ The Musical”
“Hell’s Kitchen”
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
“Moulin rouge! The Musical”
“Sunset Boulevard”
“Back to the Future”
“Gypsy”