Broadway‘s insanely busy spring doesn’t actually kick into full gear till subsequent month when 14 new exhibits have their official openings, however with March as a kind of signal of issues to come back – 5 exhibits have opened or will quickly this month – field workplace was robust final week.
In all, the 25 productions grossed $28,059,463 in the course of the week ending March 17, a bump of 14% over the earlier week, with attendance of 219,954 at a stable 94% of capability. (Nonetheless, each grosses and attendance are down greater than 15% from final yr at the moment when 29 exhibits had been on the boards.)
Latest arrivals on the listing discovered a welcoming Broadway. Among the notable entries:
- The Pocket book, which opened to decidedly blended evaluations, proved steadily widespread with audiences. Opening evening and press comps barely dented receipts: The present grossed $767,281, filling 98% of seats on the Schoenfeld. A brand new block of tickets simply went on sale by means of November 24;
- An Enemy of the Folks, which additionally had some closely comped press nights, was at $972,189, down from the $1.1M of the earlier week, however nonetheless at a whopping 103% of capability at Circle within the Sq.; the play, starring Jeremy Sturdy, Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti, opened to nice evaluations (and some headlines) on March 18;
- Water For Elephants, starring Grant Gustin, was as much as 94% of capability on the Imperial in its closing full week of previews earlier than opening March 21; gross was $898,413;
- The Who’s Tommy performed seven previews on the Nederlander (up from two previews the earlier week), filling 90% of seats on the venue and grossing $891,875; opening evening is March 28;
- Most up-to-date arrival is The Outsiders, the musical adaptation of the 1967 novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie model. In its first preview on the Jacobs, the present was a sell-out, grossing $149,970. Opening evening is April 11.
Yet one more entry to notice: Spamalot, which closes April 7 after weeks of inexplicably lackluster attendance, noticed a soar of $190,178 over the earlier week, to $862,505. Attendance on the St. James was up as nicely, little doubt with some last-chancers,however nonetheless only a should-be-better 83% of capability. The closing will, nonetheless, open up the St. James for the extremely praised and much-anticipated Sufjan Stevens musical Illinoise.
Season thus far, Broadway has grossed $1,219,561,719, with whole attendance at 9,712,465.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
