‘Leopoldstadt’, ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead Broadway Newcomers At Box Office; ‘Funny Girl’, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Major Draws
deadline.comBroadway held fairly steady at the box office last week, with recent arrivals Leopoldstadt and The Piano Lesson leading the pack of fall newcomers with grosses of $758,988 and $704,051, respectively.
In all, Broadway’s 25 current shows took in $25,208,583 for the week ending Oct. 2, a slight 4% slip from the previous week, possibly due to at least in part to the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
Attendance was off by only 2%, to 209,668. With six new productions joining the roster in recent weeks, a couple of the old-timers stole some thunder: In it’s final week on Broadway, Come From Away was a sell-out, taking in a huge $1,046,554.
And The Phantom of the Opera, which will close Feb. 18 after a 35-year run, continues to draw a surge of last-chancers: The musical grossed a best-in-ages $1,331,024, filling 98% of seats at the Majestic.
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