Broadway Box Office: Week #22: 10.22 - 10.28.12

BROADWAY BOX OFFICE

Week #22; 29 Productions

October 22 - 28, 2012

Started Performances This Week:

• The Performers - 7 previews

In Previews:

• Annie - 8 previews
• Glengarry Glen Ross - 7 previews
• Scandalous - 9 previews
• The Heiress - 8 previews
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 8 previews

Special Performance Schedule (Due mostly to Hurricane Sandy):

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia, Chicago - 7 performances
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway - 4 performances

Closed This Week:

• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - 7 performances total

Thanks, at least in part, to Hurricane Sandy, the Broadway Box Office took a hit.  8 shows played an abbreviated schedule, every show except The Heiress showed a dip in attendance, and that show rose in attendance by only one-tenth of a percent!  One can assume that next week will show similar decreases.  Newcomer The  Performers started out surprisingly weak considering the cast, while both that show and bottom-feeder Scandalous is only partially to be excused, given its buy-one-get-one-free Preview Ticket Policy.  But with 58.9% attendance, it is pretty clear that either everyone is waiting for the reviews or there just isn't much interest in Aimee Semple McPherson.  Sorry, Kathie Lee.

To see how this chart is calculated click on the "Box Office" tab at the top of the screen.

Rank This Week	Show Title	Show Type	Theatre	Rank Last Week	Up/ Down
1	The Book of Mormon	Musical	O'Neill	1	Same
2	Glengarry Glen Ross	Play Revival	Schoenfeld	2	Same
3	Once	Musical	Jacobs	2	-1
3 tie	The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	4	+1
5	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	4	-1
6	Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway	Concert	Broadway	4	-2
7	Rock of Ages	Musical	Hayes	8	+1
8 tie	Jersey Boys	Musical	Wilson	8	Same
8 tie	Newsies	Musical	Nederlander	8	Same
10	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	11	+1
11	The Heiress	Play Revival	Kerr	16	+5
12 tie	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	12	Same
12 tie	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	13	+1
14	Chicago	Musical Revival	Ambassador	14	Same
15	War Horse	Play	Beaumont	14	-1
16	Mamma Mia!	Musical	Winter Garden	18	+2
17	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	17	Same
18	Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	1522	-3+4
19	Annie	Musical Revival	Palace	20	+1
20	Grace	Play	Cort	19	-1
21 tie	Chaplin	Musical	Barrymore	21	Same
21 tie	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Play Revival	Booth	22	+1
23	An Enemy of the People	Play Revival	Freidman	26	+3
24	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Atkinson	24	Same
25	Cyrano de Bergerac	Play Revival	American Airlines	26	+1
26 tie	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Musical Revival	Studio 54	25	-1
26 tie	The Performers	Play	Longacre	n/a	n/a
28	Bring It On: The Musical	Musical	St. James	28	-3
29	Scandalous	Musical	Simon	29	Same

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