The build-up to Christmas is being very beneficiant with Broadway. In some circumstances, very, very beneficiant. Among the many most spectacular field workplace developments final week was the welcome given to All In: Comedy About Love, primarily based on the brief tales of author Simon Wealthy, learn stay by such performers as, initially, John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Richard Type (the forged adjustments every week).
For the week ending December 15, All In grossed $1,046,514 for 5 previews. The Hudson Theatre was offered out for the week with a hefty common ticket value of $216.22.
Additionally doing its finest to impress the vacation gods was Elf, becoming a member of the rarified $2 million membership with a gross of $2,033,784, with 94% of seats on the huge Marquis occupied.
Different exhibits grossing $2M or extra have been the usuals: Hamilton ($2,177,119), The Lion King ($2,497,970), and tireless frontrunner Depraved ($2,878,086). Two productions teetered on the $2M brink: Gypsy ($1,818,235, with press comps maintaining the quantity down); and Sundown Blvd. ($1,900,669).
Solidly on the $1M+ turf have been: & Juliet, Aladdin, All In: Comedy About Love, Again To The Future, Cabaret At The Package Kat Membership, Dying Turns into Her, Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one, Hell’s Kitchen, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Oh, Mary!, Suffs, The E book of Mormon, The Nice Gatsby, The Pocket book and The Outsiders.
Promote-outs for the week have been All In: Comedy About Love, Dying Turns into Her, Hadestown, Hamilton, Oh, Mary!, Romeo + Juliet, Suffs, The Pocket book, The Outsiders and Depraved. Topping 95% have been & Juliet, Aladdin, Chicago, Gypsy, Hell’s Kitchen, Moulin Rouge!, Stereophonic, Sundown Blvd., The E book of Mormon, The Nice Gatsby and The Lion King.
A pair numbers of be aware: Swept Away, which lately gave itself a sensible two-week extension (to December 29) after posting an early closing, crammed 99% of seats on the Longacre. And the superb Perhaps Blissful Ending, after initially struggling to seek out its viewers, was at 95% of capability on the Belasco final week, with a really pleased gross of $764,022.
Cult of Love, which opened to typically strong critiques on December 12, crammed 91% of seats on the Hayes, grossing $315,283 for 2 previews and 5 common performances.
One other current arrival, the so-dubbed vaccine comedy Eureka Day, was in previews final week on the Friedman, filling 85% of seats and grossing $230,425. The optimistic critiques that adopted its December 16 opening ought to spur some field workplace good points in coming weeks.
Two exhibits closed final week: The Pocket book, filling the Schoenfeld with last-chancers and grossing a hefty $1,094,299, and The Roommate, grossing $501,497 with attendance at 87% of capability (up from 77% the earlier week).
Not sharing within the vacation love have been Left on Tenth and The Hills of California, with attendance leaving their respective venues almost half empty.
In all, the 36 Broadway productions on the boards final week grossed $43,720,381, with attendance at 314,951, each figures greater than 38% larger than final yr at the moment. Common ticket value was $138.82, about $3 larger than final yr.
Season to this point, Broadway, within the thirtieth week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $992,182,392, up about 15% over final yr at the moment, with whole attendance of 7,971,644 additionally up about 15%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.
