Broadway box office settled back to its pre-Thanksgiving levels last week, with grosses for the 29 shows totaling $26,214,735, a 19% drop from the previous week’s holiday take.Attendance for the week ending Dec.
5 showed a commensurate decline, falling about 12% to 210,795. About 83% of available seats were filled, with an average ticket price of $124 showing a 9% drop from the Thanksgiving week average of $137.In addition to the annual post-holiday drops, last week’s decline in receipts and attendance also reflects a slimmer roster: 29 shows compared to the previous week’s 33.
Gone were Dana H., Is This A Room and Chicken & Biscuits, and David Byrne’s American Utopia played no performances due to a non-Covid-related illness in the company.
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