Broadway recorded its greatest attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week within the trade’s recorded historical past, the Broadway League mentioned immediately, with its 38 productions grossing a mixed $46,046,759, an enormous enhance over final yr’s turkey vacation take of $34,512,033.
Attendance for this yr’s Thanksgiving week – the Broadway week ending December 1 – was 312,143, in comparison with final yr’s Thanksgiving week attendance of 228,711.
The highest grosser for this yr’s vacation week was, no shock, Depraved, the 21-year-old Broadway musical getting a renewed enhance of curiosity from the blockbuster film model out now. The Broadway musical grossed $2,930,221, topping the #2 entry on the chart (The Lion King, $2,883,276) and #3 (Hamilton $2,579,544).
A full field workplace report will likely be posted shortly…
