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Weekly Broadway Grosses: Spider-Man is Flying High
The week between Christmas and New Year's Day is always a big money-maker for Broadway, as there are so many tourists in town to see the Rockefeller Center tree, watch the ball drop in Times Square, and celebrate the holidays in New York style. 18 shows earned over one million dollars last week, and several even added a ninth performance to accommodate the eager crowds. But it was Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark that reigned king the final week of December, as the show broke the record for the highest single-week gross in the history of Broadway!
Other shows didn't have quite as good a week as Spider-Man (or Wicked, Hugh Jackman or How to Succeed... for that matter): Bonnie and Clyde, Private Lives, and The Addams Family each played their final performances last week.
Here is a look at how things went down on Broadway during the week ending January 1:
Top Earners (By Gross)
1. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ($2,941,794)*
2. Wicked ($2,712,535)*
3. The Lion King ($2,444,132)*
4. Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway ($2,056,957)*
5. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ($1,910,224)*
Bottom Earners (By Gross)
5. Private Lives ($445,166)*
4. Chinglish ($393,198)*
3. Stick Fly ($371,515)*
2. Lysistrata Jones ($326,500)*
1. The Road to Mecca ($126,109) (Number based on seven preview performances)
Biggest Crowds (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)*
2. Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway (101.94%)*
3. The Phantom of the Opera (101.51%)
4. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (100.60%)*
5. Jersey Boys (100.46%)
Smallest Crowds (By Capacity)
5. Lysistrata Jones (62.70%)*
4. Follies (59.35%)
3. The Road to Mecca (58.11%) (Number based on seven preview performances)
2. Chinglish (56.45%)*
1. An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (55.61%)
*Number based on nine regular performances.
All data provided by the Broadway League.
Spider-Man photo credit: Jacob Cohl
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