Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ and Leopoldstadt set house records and The Phantom of the Opera was once again standing room only as the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical heads toward its Feb.
18 closing. Total attendance for the 27 Broadway shows was 225,731 for the week ending Oct. 16, a barely perceptible increase of 1.5% over the previous week.
Among the most recent arrivals, Almost Famous, the musical adaptation of the 2000 film in previews ahead of a Nov. 13 opening, scored big, grossing $606,780 and filling 94% of seats at the Jacobs.
The musical Kimberly Akimbo, opening Nov. 10 at the Booth, was at 91% of capacity, grossing $300,433 for six previews. KPOP, the new production about the South Korean musical genre phenomenon, took in $191,119 for four performances, at 83.81% of capacity at Circle in the Square.
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