Romeo + Juliet, Sam Gold’s new Broadway adaptation of the Shakespeare basic starring Equipment Connor and Rachel Zegler, bought out its first three preview performances final week, filling Circle within the Sq. past its seating capability and scoring the week’s high common ticket value at $178.94.
The trendy-dress adaptation, one in every of a half-dozen new productions to hit New York in current weeks, was standing room solely and grossed $441,258 for the three previews final week. Romeo + Juliet opens October 24.
The typical ticket value general for Broadway final week was $112.57.
Additionally leaping in with a robust begin, Sundown Blvd., Jamie Lloyd’s revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, crammed the St. James for its first preview, grossing $304,934. Opening night time is October 20. And McNeal, the brand new play starring Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, opened to blended evaluations however crammed each seat at Lincoln Middle’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, grossing a whopping $1,151,402 for seven exhibits.
Different current arrivals are taking a bit longer to search out their legs, together with The Hills of California, Jez Butterworth’s great new play that opened final week, scoring $390,470 for six previews and the invited-guest September 29 opening night time efficiency, and filling 88% of seats on the Broadhurst.
Additionally in previews final week, Yellow Face, starring Daniel Dae Kim and opening tonight on the Todd Haimes Theatre, took in $313,112, filling about 89% of the venue’s seats. Our City, with an enormous forged together with Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch, Ephraim Sykes and extra, was at 79% of capability on the Barrymore, grossing $632,063. Opening night time is October 10.
Left on Tenth, the Susan Stroman-directed romantic comedy based mostly on the Delia Ephron memoir and starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher, started previews on the James Earl Jones Theatre, grossing $361,709 for 4 performances, with attendance at 79% of capability. Opening night time is October 23.
Another figures of word for the week ending September 29: Covid struck The Roommate once more, this time hitting Patti LuPone (her costar Mia Farrow was out sick a pair weeks in the past). With three weekend performances canceled, grosses dropped $176,143 to $352,795; Hell’s Kitchen, with a non-Covid sickness hitting the corporate, canceled two mid-week performances, slipping $136,673 from the earlier week however nonetheless grossing an enormous $1,154,611.
And as soon as once more, Oh, Mary! broke its personal home document (the seventh time, however who’s counting) on the Lyceum, promoting out and grossing an eye-popping $1,163,957.
On the decrease finish of the Broadway chart’s attendance figures, Water For Elephants was at simply 62% of capability on the Imperial, grossing $623,896; and Again To The Future crammed 65% of seats on the Winter Backyard, grossing $604,387.
In all, the 32 Broadway productions on the boards for the week ending September 29 grossed a complete $26,449,033, up 5% from the earlier week, with attendance of 234,963 up 4%.
Season thus far, Broadway, within the nineteenth week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $586,020,195, up about 8% over final yr right now, with whole attendance of 4,741,511 up about 6%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
