Even with a Covid-shortened efficiency schedule, Lea Michele’s star flip in Funny Girl was critical enterprise final week, with field workplace for the musical revival greater than doubling from the earlier week.
For the week ending Sept. 11 – Michele’s first week as Fanny Brice – Funny Girl grossed $1,639,212, a dramatic upturn from the earlier week’s $659,874 and a major enchancment over even the $1.3 million excessive averages of authentic star Beanie Feldstein’s early weeks final spring.
Next week’s grosses report ought to present one more aspect to Michele’s field workplace impression: She’s out of the manufacturing this week attributable to a constructive Covid check (final week she performed solely 4 performances, together with her first evening on Tuesday, then the Wednesday matinee and night exhibits, and once more on Friday; Julie Benko performs the function on Thursdays and stuffed in for the three weekend exhibits that Michele missed). Deadline hears there have been a major variety of ticket trade requests final weekend.
Still, even with Michele’s curtailed efficiency schedule, Funny Girl stuffed 96% of its seats for the week, in comparison with the 70-80ish percentages of current weeks.
In reality, Funny Girl was one among few Broadway exhibits that didn’t take a giant, post-Labor Day Holiday hit final week. Total grosses for the 19 exhibits on the boards totaled $20,638,554, a 19% drop from the earlier tourist-heavy week. The drop in receipts additionally displays a barely slimmer roster: 19 exhibits in contrast with the earlier week’s 21 – and one of many lacking was the mega-bucks earner The Music Man, on a scheduled hiatus whereas star Hugh Jackman makes the movie pageant rounds with Florian Zeller’s The Son. (The different now-gone present was Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night.)
Producers for The Music Man introduced right now that the present will shut this Jan. 1 with Jackman’s departure.
Other exhibits that did effectively final week have been a few about-to-close productions: Come From Away, which closes Oct. 2, stuffed 99% of its seats for a $781,173 take, whereas Dear Evan Hansen, closing Sept. 18, was a sell-out, grossing $1,050,167.
Other prime earners within the $1M+ vary have been Aladdin, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, MJ, Moulin Rouge, Six, The Lion King and Wicked. Into The Woods, now with a stellar alternative forged, grossed $1,044,801, a noticeable drop from the earlier week’s $1.8M.
Coming weeks will see important exercise on the roster: September alone will see previews start for Cost of Living, Leopoldstadt, 1776, Death of a Salesman, The Piano Lesson and Topdog/Underdog, with extra to come back later this fall.
Season up to now, Broadway has grossed $449,823,161, with complete attendance of three,501,670 at about 86% of capability.
The 19 productions reporting figures on Broadway final week have been Aladdin, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Into The Woods, The Kite Runner, The Lion King, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, Six, A Strange Loop and Wicked.
All figures courtesy of the Broadway League.
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