Broadway Shows See Some Box Office Momentum With Summer-Lean Roster; ‘Into The Woods’ Scores $1.8M, ‘Funny Girl’ At $785G
deadline.comBox office for most Broadway shows – Funny Girl and Mr. Saturday Night included – was up a bit last week, as the hits – Into The Woods and MJ included – stayed strong and even some struggling shows saw a slight uptick in attendance.Although total Broadway box office was down 4% from the previous week, that was largely attributable to three fewer productions on the roster for the week ending July 17 – 26 shows compared to the previous week’s 29.
Absent from list were the now-closed heavy hitters Plaza Suite, Macbeth and American Buffalo.In all, the 26 productions grossed $28,989,978 for the week ending July 17.
Attendance of 225,011 was down a commensurate 4% from the previous week as well.Funny Girl, which has been slipping at the box office in recent weeks, saw a bit of an upturn, despite star Beanie Feldstein missing weekend performances due to tonsillitis (no official word yet on her return date).
The musical revival took in $785,105, an increase of $76,243 over the previous week, with attendance at 73% of capacity (compared to 65% the previous week).Into The Woods, which just today announced that a cast album will be recorded for a September release, continued its powerhouse run at the St.
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