Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ Soars As Movie Nears; Newcomers ‘Sunset Blvd.’, ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Top $1M – Broadway Box Office
deadline.comBroadway newcomers Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet, both in previews, topped the $1M mark in weekly grosses last week, while interesting things were happening over at Wicked: The long-running musical had its best week, by far, of the ’24-’25 season, hitting nearly $2.5M.
The Wicked figure is a leap of $440,313 over the previous week, and easily bests its previous season high of $2.2M from July.
Looks like all the publicity surrounding the upcoming November movie release is having a definite Broadway impact (and – bonus points – Broadway favorite Donna McKechnie recently joined the production as Madame Morrible.) The Wicked take – $2,486,411 to be exact – put it at #1 on the Broadway box office chart for the week ending October 13, edging out its usual neck-and-neck rival The Lion King, which came in at #2 with $2,198,308.
The stellar number helped push total Broadway receipts to $34,268,132 for the week ending October 13, a bump of 16% over the previous week (and 25% better than last season at this time).
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