‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Among Broadway Shows Seeing Record Sales In 2023’s Final Week
deadline.comHarry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending Sunday.
It was one of several high marks achieved for Main Stem shows in 2023’s final box office frame. The Harry Potter gross passed the high mark originally set the week ending January 1, 2023 ($2,671,191).
It is also a house record for the play’s home the Lyric Theatre. The Tony-winning play has sold more than 10 million tickets worldwide since its July 2016 premiere and is Broadway’s most successful non-musical play with more than $330 million in total sales.
A North American tour is set to launch in September 2024 in Chicago. Over at the Ambassador Theatre, Broadway’s longest-running musical Chicago grossed weekly sales of $1,452,008.50, beating last year’s final week’s $1,299,4004.24.
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