Broadway Box Office Slides 11% To $16M As Roster Drops To 21 Shows
deadline.comBroadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster.
Attendance for the week ending Jan. 23 was 152,135, a slip of 6% from the previous week.The reduced roster – the previous week had 25 productions on the boards – did seem to help at least some per-show attendances: In all, total attendance was at 75% of Broadway capacity, a noticeable jump from the previous week’s 66%.The figures also reflect the reduced prices of the twice-annual Broadway Week promotion (actually, nearly a month this year, ending Feb.
13), with two-for-one tickets available at many shows.Despite a modest $108 average ticket price, many potential theater-goers apparently remained reluctant to venture out during New York’s still-concerning – if significantly receding – Omicron wave.
No Broadway production last week saw any canceled performances last week due to illness.Still, four productions were gone from the roster, including To Kill a Mockingbird (on hiatus until June 1) and the closed Flying Over Sunset, Ain’t Too Proud and Clyde’s.
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