Broadway Box Office: Week 49: 04.30 - 05.06.12

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The Broadway Box Office Top Ten 

for the 49th week of the 2011 - 2012 season 

(April 30 - May 6; 39 productions):


THE TOP TEN SHOWS OF THE WEEK

Rank This Week	Show  Title	Show  Type	Theatre	Rank Last Week
1	The Book of Mormon	Musical	Eugene O'Neill	1
2	Disney's The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	2
3	Death of a Salesman*	Play Revival	Ethel Barrymore	3
4	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	6
5	Disney's Newsies	Musical	Nederlander	7
6	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	4
7	Jersey Boys	Musical	August Wilson	9
8	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	10
9	Once	Musical	Bernard B. Jacobs	14
10	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	11

* - Death of a Salesman played 7 performances this week.

(To find out how this is calculated, please click HERE.)

THE BOTTOM FIVE SHOWS THIS WEEK

Rank This  Week	Show Title	Show Type	Theatre	Rank Last Week
35	Leap of Faith	Musical	St. James	34
36 tie	Godspell	Musical Revival	Circle in the Square	35
36 tie	Seminar	Play	John Golden	39
38	The Lyons	Play	Cort	37
39	Magic/Bird	Play	Longacre	38

THE BOX OFFICE FOR THE 
TONY NOMINEES

Rank This Week	Show Title	Show Type	Rank Last Week	+ or -
3	Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman	Play Revival	3	No change
4	Evita	Musical Revival	6	+3
5	Disney's Newsies	Musical	7	+2
8	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	10	+2
9	Once	Musical	14	+5
12	The Best Man	Play Revival	4	-8
19	Clybourne Park	Play	27	+8
24	Jesus Christ Superstar	Musical Revival	21	-3
27	The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess	Musical Revival	24	-3
29	Other Desert Cities	Play	25	-4
30	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	36	+6
31	Venus in Fur	Play	31	No change
35	Leap of Faith	Musical	34	-1

Jeff

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