Broadway‘s spring roster appeared to settle right into a Tony season field workplace rating, with the strongest of the newcomers sustaining their attracts and the weakest persevering with downward slides.
In that first class had been repeat sell-outs An Enemy of the Folks, Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership and Hell’s Kitchen, with each The Outsiders and Stereophonic inching onto that turf. The Outsiders was up $129,650 from the earlier week to an enormous $1,023,827, and Stereophonic jumped $92,392 to $683,911. All 5 reveals had been properly represented amongst Tony nominees.
A second batch of newcomers, although not hitting sell-out standing, nonetheless had been very robust performers in the course of the week ending Could 12. Acceptable was up greater than $43,000 to $702,686, filling 91% of its seats; Mary Jane and Mom Play each held regular, with attendance round 97% of capability; Suffs, The Nice Gatsby and The Wiz every posted field workplace jumps of greater than $100,000, settling into the spectacular 91% to 95% of capability terrain.
Illinoise crammed 94% of its seats, however receipts had been down $4,656 to $679,737 because of the canceled efficiency on Could 8 following the tragic dying of manufacturing stage supervisor Thomas J. Gates.
On the 80%-90% of capability stage, The Who’s Tommy, nominated for Finest Musical Revival, and Lempicka posted noticeable jumps, with Tommy up $80,674 to $991,028 and filling 85% of its accessible seats. Lempicka, which posted a distressing early closing discover of Could 19, was up $144,424 to $419,472, with attendance at 87% of capability however a median ticket worth at an unsustainable $57.34.
Additionally making field workplace will increase had been The Pocket book (up $113,058 to $786,488, at 87%); Water For Elephants (up $63,952 to $1,074,006, 84%; and, with the most important drop-off, Uncle Vanya, down $83,365 to $914,675, with attendance at 87% of capability.
Additionally bucking the general upward pattern had been Patriots, down $12,225 to $404,147 and filling solely 65% of seats; and The Coronary heart of Rock and Roll, dropping $31,973 to $319,030, with attendance at 70% of capability.
In all, the 34 Broadway productions new and in any other case grossed $35,727,377 for the week, a bounce of about 3% over the earlier week and a big 14% over this time final 12 months. Complete attendance was 286,841, about 91% of capability and a tiny slip of 1% from the earlier week (however up 8% from final 12 months).
Season so far, Broadway has grossed $1,502,896,749, down about 3% from final 12 months presently, with complete attendance at 11,995,066 regular with final 12 months.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.