Broadway Box Office Heads Into Holiday Season At Steady Clip With Weekly Take Of $29M
deadline.comBroadway began its trek into the lucrative holiday season last week at a steady clip, with the 28 shows grossing a total of $29,163,440 for the week ending November 12.
That’s up about 10% over the previous week, though down about the same percentage from last year at this time. Last year’s take at this point in the fall – $32,314,920 for 34 shows – was closer to pre-Covid pandemic levels: The week ending November 11, 2018, saw Broadway receipts of $36,501,888, while the week ending November 10, 2019 was at $35,399,366.
In 2021, when Broadway returned from its year-plus shutdown, the comparable November week was down to $25,565,641. The better news is that the majority of shows currently on the boards are doing pretty good business, with only six of the 28 shows pulling in audiences of less than 90% capacity (A Beautiful Noise, Chicago, Melissa Etheridge: My Window, Purlie Victorious, Some Like It Hot and The Shark is Broken).
Twelve of the 28 shows grossed more than $1 million for the week: & Juliet ($1,107,122); Aladdin ($1,188,415); Back to the Future ($1,299,452); Gutenberg!
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