Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions.
Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 – a week marked by the emergence in New York of the Omicron covid variant and the beginning of a rush of Broadway cancellations – was down 23% to 184,227.The previous week, ending Dec.
12, saw box office receipts of $30,533,809, with attendance at 240,602.Next week’s box office chart – which will reflect numbers for this week – will no doubt show an even greater decline, as various productions have canceled additional performances due to Covid.Among the productions that canceled performances last week were Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Jagged Little Pill, Mrs.
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