Sundown Blvd. had its finest field workplace numbers but final week, whereas Possibly Glad Ending confirmed some welcome enchancment and each Elf and A Fantastic World opened to homes with 90% of seats stuffed.
The pre-holiday information wasn’t fairly so cheery for all of Broadway although, as no fewer than 26 of the 37 productions noticed downturns, some small, some not so small, for the week ending November 17. In all, the 37 exhibits took in $35,104,796, a slip of nearly 4% from the earlier week, with attendance of 304,368 off by lower than a full proportion level.
Among the many notable numbers:
- Sundown Blvd., a pair weeks out from the Nicole Scherzinger social media flap, posted a gross of $1,902,072, up greater than $44,000 over the earlier week. Attendance on the St. James was at 95% of the venue’s capability;
- A Fantastic World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, opened at Studio 54 to principally first rate evaluations, filling 92% of seats and grossing $661,380;
- The marvelous Possibly Glad Ending, starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen opened on the Belasco with a weekly gross of $458,827, a $160,860 enchancment over the earlier week. Attendance was at 89% of capability in comparison with 84% the earlier week. Optimistically, the across-the-board rave evaluations will purchase this real charmer a while to catch on;
- Additionally opening final week was Tammy Faye, which didn’t fare so nicely with critics. Attendance throughout opening week was solely 63% of the Palace’s capability, with a seven-show gross of $374,371, and with press and opening evening comps taking bites;
- Elf, the restricted vacation engagement staging of the musical adaptation of the favored film, opened on the Marquis to $510,047 (a lot of press and opening evening comps took their toll), attendance at 90% of capability;
- Swept Away, which opens tonight on the Longacre, stuffed simply 81% of seats, with a gross of $426,788. As with Possibly Glad Ending, evaluations might inform the story right here;
- Dying Turns into Her, in the meantime, would possibly already be critic-proof (not that it essentially want fear about evaluations). With a gap simply days away – November 21 – the musical adaptation of the movie final week took in a hefty $1,121,395, filling 96% of seats on the Lunt-Fontanne;
- Romeo + Juliet, the star-powered replace with Equipment Connor and Rachel Zegler, had one other standing-room-only week, promoting out 102% at Circle within the Sq. and grossing $1,022,028.
Additionally price noting, Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby debuted its new, slimmed-down model (operating time below three hours) and new forged throughout a deliberate 7-performance week, filling about 89% of seats on the Lyric and grossing $900,528.
Reveals with attendance higher than 90% of capability included Fantastic World, Aladdin, Cabaret on the Equipment Kat Membership, Dying Turns into Her, Elf, Hadestown, Hamilton, Hell’s Kitchen, McNeal (100%), Moulin Rouge!, Oh, Mary! (100%), Romeo + Juliet (102%), Stereophonic, Suffs, Sundown Blvd., The E-book of Mormon, The Lion King, The Outsiders (101%), Depraved (100%, and the highest grosser with $2,445,380) and Yellow Face.
On the decrease finish of the spectrum, 5 exhibits stuffed fewer than 70% of their seats: Again to the Future (68%), Chicago (62%), Left on Tenth (64%), Tammy Faye (63%), and The Hills of California (60%).
Season so far, Broadway, within the twenty sixth week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $823,044,626, up about 12% over final yr right now, with whole attendance of 6,727,317, additionally up about 11%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
