The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical that closed its Broadway run on Sunday after 35 years, went out on a really excessive word: Box workplace receipts for the present’s remaining week hit a best-ever $3,739,934.
Playing, in fact, to standing room solely audiences at longtime venue the Majestic Theatre, Phantom commanded a hefty $287 common ticket value throughout its residence stretch week (Sunday’s remaining efficiency was invitation-only and closely comped).
Among the reveals of a newer classic, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the newest comedy from the Mischief theater firm of us, took in $903,540, a startlingly robust determine for a brand new non-musical play. The mixture of Mischief’s popularity (the troupe was behind the highly regarded The Play That Goes Wrong) and present visitor star Neil Patrick Harris (he’s on board till April 30) proved irresistible to ticket-buyers, who paid a mean $113.67 per ticket and crammed 95% of seats on the Ethel Barrymore. Opening evening is tomorrow.
The robust showings of each reveals contributed to the Broadway whole of $38,474,982 for the week ending April 16. Total attendance was 282,895. The whole tally for the 34 productions held even from the earlier week.
Two reveals opened final week, with Fat Ham getting the extra constantly constructive critiques however filling fewer seats, percentage-wise, than Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Camelot. The former, a Pulitzer-winning comedy on the American Airlines Theatre, took in $309,831, with 76% of seats crammed. Camelot crammed 96% of seats at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, grossing $811,393.
A raft of different spring newcomers consists of The Thanksgiving Play on the Hayes, opening April 20 (gross final week was $167,207, with a $43.73 common ticket); Prima Facie, London’s acclaimed solo present starring Jodie Comer, got here very near promoting out its seven previews, grossing $889,666 on the Golden (opens April 23); Good Night, Oscar, the brand new comedy-drama starring Sean Hayes on the Belasco, crammed 70% of seats for seven previews on the Belasco, grossing $603,556 (opening evening is April 24); Summer, 1976, the brand new play starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht on the Samuel Friedman Theatre, took in $362,597 for seven previews, with an April 25 opening; and New York, New York, the brand new Kander & Ebb musical, crammed 87% of seats on the St. James, grossing $1,018,014 with an $88.71 common ticket (opening April 26).
Speaking of Kander & Ebb, the revival of the duo’s Chicago is now, with Phantom‘s departure, the longest running show on Broadway, with 10,338 performances under its belt. The musical continues to pull audiences, with last week’s gross on the Ambassador Theatre at $683,480.
Season to this point, Broadway has grossed $1,419,749,603, with whole attendance of 10,949,864 at 89% of capability.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
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