Broadway Box Office: Week 4: 06.18 - 06.24.12

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Broadway Box Office

Week #4 of the 2012 - 2013 Season

June 18 - 24; 32 Productions

Despite a hefty bounce at the box office, both of this week's closers, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Godspell still had pretty weak weeks, percentage-wise, 68.8% and 77.3%, respectively. .  Still, both shows went out on a high, with Godspell gaining 18.9% in attendance and $111,294 in receipts, and Priscilla gaining 17.6% attendance and a tidy $225,098 bump in receipts.  The other big gainer this week was Peter and the Starcatcher with a 12.8% bump in attendance (to a nice 92.6%), and modest gain of $88, 334 in receipts.  The Tony-winning Best Play, Clybourne Park remained relatively flat, dipping only slightly in attendance and box office.  The biggest loser of the week, the Tony-winning Best Musical Revival, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess took a dive, dipping a huge 17.2% to end up with just 57.5% of the seats filled.  Of course, this is without Audra McDonald, who is out sick until next month.  (I have my thoughts about that, which I will keep to myself.)  Other than that, the usual shows are doing well, the rest continue to yo-yo up and down, and the shows getting ready to close are wheezing their way out.

RANK THIS WEEK	SHOW TITLE	SHOW TYPE	THEATRE	RANK LAST WEEK	UP/ DOWN
1	The Book of Mormon	Musical	Eugene O'Neill	1	Same
2	Disney's The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	2	Same
3	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	3	Same
4	Once	Musical	Bernard B. Jacobs	3	-1
5	Disney's Newsies: The Musical	Musical	Nederlander	3	-2
6	Rock of Ages	Musical	Helen Hayes	7	+1
7	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	6	-1
8	Jersey Boys	Musical	August Wilson	9	+1
9 tie	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Brooks Atkinson	15	+6
9 tie	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	14	+5
11	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	10	-1
12	One Man, Two Guvnors	Play	Music Box	12	-1
13	Gore Vidal's The Best Man	Play Revival	Gerald Schoenfeld	11	-2
14	Harvey	Play Revival	Studio 54	17	+3
15	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	16	+1
16	Disney's Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	18	+2
17	Chicago	Musical Revival	Ambassador	23	+6
18	War Horse	Play	Vivian Beaumont	20	+2
19	Mamma Mia	Musical	Winter Garden	18	-1
20	Priscilla Queen of the Desert	Musical	Palace	31	+11
21	Anything Goes	Musical Revival	Stephen Sondheim	23	+2
22	Clybourne Park	Play	Walter Kerr	22	Same
23	Ghost: The Musical	Musical	Lunt-Fontanne	27	+4
24 tie	Godspell	Musical Revival	Circle-in-the-Square	34	+10
24 tie	The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess	Musical Revival	Richard Rodgers	20	-4
26	Sister Act	Musical	Broadway	26	Same
27	Memphis	Musical	Shubert	27	Same
28	Jesus Christ Superstar	Musical Revival	Neil Simon	29	+1
29	The Columnist	Play	Samuel J. Friedman	25	-4
30	End of the Rainbow	Play	Belasco	29	-1
31	A Streetcar Named Desire	Play	Broadhurst	33	+2
32	The Lyons	Play	Cort	35	+3

SRO: Harvey, Once, The Book of Mormon, Disney's The Lion King, Disney's Newsies
$100+ tickets: The Book of Mormon, The Lion King, Wicked, Evita, Once, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Best Man, One Man, Two Guvnors
$2M Club: Wicked
$1M Club: The Lion KIng, The Book of Mormon, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Once, Newsies, Evita

Jeff

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