Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (the latte…
as Leo Frank and Micaela Diamond as wife Lucille Frank, played four preview performances last week – only one of which, the first, drew the antisemitic protesters – and was at standing room only, grossing $587,006 with an average ticket price of $143.24. The Alfred Uhry-Jason Robert Brown musical, directed by Michael Arden, opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on March 16.
In all, the 23 Broadway shows on the board for the week ending Feb. 26 took in a total of $25,832,430, a slight dip from the previous week, with total attendance of 201,951 actually up a bit. A lower average ticket price than the previous week no doubt impacted the total gross . Season to date, Broadway has grossed $1,187,687,867, with total attendance of 9,162,970 holding steady at 88% of capacity.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For the complete box office listings, visit the League’s
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