Funny Girl broke a house record with more than $2 million in receipts at the August Wilson Theatre, A Beautiful Noise continued its $1 million-plus weekly take, and The Piano Lesson topped the list of highest-grossing non-musical productions with $914,752, each contributing to Broadway’s $37M box office tally for the week ending Dec.
18. Heading deeper into the holiday season, Broadway held even with the previous week’s box office, even with one fewer show on the roster (KPOP was gone).
In all, the 34 shows grossed $37,287,623, with attendance of 275,724 at 86% of capacity. At the Wilson, Funny Girl, starring (of course) Lea Michele, grossed $2,005,696, handily breaking the house record of $1,994,386 set by Mean Girls back in 2018.
With attendance at 96% of capacity, Funny Girl had an average ticket price of $213.28, second only to The Music Man‘s $267.99 (for a gross of $3,249,366 at the Winter Garden).
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