Broadway Box Office
Week #1 of the 2012 - 2013 Season
May 28 - June 3; 36 Productions
This is the first official week of the new season, and the first show of 2012-2013, Harvey (13), is now in previews. Mega-hit, Death of a Salesman (2), closed June 2nd, and several shows have announced their closing shortly. One show, Godspell (35), has its producer, Ken Davenport, admitting publicly that his show's future really depends on the ticket sales following their performance on this Sunday's Tony Awards. This week, every show except Harvey and Death of a Salesman posted losses in either percentage of attendance or change in gross or (most shows) both. Even the gains posted by the play revivals were minuscule - Harvey had the biggest attendance gain at just .8% and Death's increase in receipts was the biggest at just $52K. Jesus Christ Superstar (31), The Lyons (36), and The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (24) continue to struggle at the box office. Only two of the Best Musical nominees - Once (6) and Disney's Newsies (5) - continue to be strong. The third, Nice Work If You Can Get It (11), dipped over 14% in capacity last week. This pre-Tony slump isn't all that surprising - this being the week after Memorial Day, after all - but it also shows there is no clear blockbuster among the nominated shows.
| RANK THIS WEEK |
SHOW TITLE | SHOW TYPE |
THEATRE | RANK LAST WEEK |
UP/ DOWN |
| 1 | The Book of Mormon | Musical | Eugene O'Neill | ||
| 2 | Death of a Salesman* | Play Revival | Barrymore | ||
| 3 | Disney's The Lion King | Musical | Minskoff | ||
| 4 | Wicked | Musical | Gershwin | ||
| 5 | Disney's Newsies: The Musical | Musical | Nederlander | ||
| 6 | Once | Musical | Bernard B. Jacobs | ||
| 7 | Evita | Musical Revival | Marquis | ||
| 8 | Jersey Boys | Musical | August Wilson | ||
| 9 | Rock of Ages | Musical | Helen Hayes | ||
| 10 | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | Musical | Foxwoods | ||
| 11 | Nice Work If You Can Get It | Musical | Imperial | ||
| 12 | Gore Vidal's The Best Man | Play Revival | Gerald Schoenfeld | ||
| 13 | Harvey | Play Revival | Studio 54 | ||
| 13 tie | The Phantom of the Opera | Musical | Majestic | ||
| 15 | War Horse | Play | Vivian Beaumont | ||
| 16 | Mamma Mia | Musical | Winter Garden | ||
| 16 tie | One Man, Two Guvnors | Play | Music Box | ||
| 18 | Chicago | Musical Revival | Ambassador | ||
| 19 | Disney's Mary Poppins | Musical | New Amsterdam | ||
| 20 | Clybourne Park | Play | Walter Kerr | ||
| 21 | The Columnist | Play | Samuel J. Friedman | ||
| 22 | Peter and the Starcatcher | Play | Brooks Atkinson | ||
| 23 | Venus in Fur | Play | Lyceum | ||
| 24 | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess | Musical Revival | Richard Rodgers | ||
| 24 tie | Anything Goes | Musical Revival |
Stephen Sondheim | ||
| 26 | Ghost: The Musical | Musical | Lunt-Fontanne | ||
| 27 | End of the Rainbow | Play | Belasco | ||
| 28 | Memphis | Musical | Shubert | ||
| 29 | Sister Act | Musical | Broadway | ||
| 30 | Other Desert Cities | Play | Booth | ||
| 31 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical Revival | Neil Simon | ||
| 32 | Priscilla Queen of the Desert | Musical | Palace | ||
| 33 | Don't Dress for Dinner | Play | American Airlines | ||
| 34 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Play | Broadhurst | ||
| 35 | Godspell | Musical Revival |
Circle-in-the-Square | ||
| 36 | The Lyons | Play | Cort |
* - Death of a Salesman played 7 performances this week. The production closed on Saturday, June 2, 2012.
(To find out how this is calculated, please click HERE.)
Jeff
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