Broadway Box Office: Week 7: 07.09 - 07.15.12

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Broadway Box Office

Week #7 of the 2012 - 2013 Season

July 9 - 15; 28 Productions

The week's two new entries, the new musical Bring It On and a return engagement of Fela! came in at opposite ends of the success ladder.  The cheerleading musical came in in the top half of the chart with the show pulling in over 95% attendance for just 4 previews.  Meanwhile, the other show came in at the very bottom in terms of average ticket price and percentage of gross potential, and very near the bottom in terms of attendance percentage.  Once continues to bask in the glow of its Tony win, cracking the top 3.  The biggest winner of the week was Evita which not only made up for last week, but did better that the week before last.  Seems a lot of folks really want to see Ricky Martin.  The two biggest losers were Gore Vidal's The Best Man, which had several high profile cast changes, and The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which plummeted, despite the return of Tony winner Audra McDonald.  Broadway will, it turns out, have one less week with Catfish Row on the boards, with the new closing date of September 23 now posted.  Perennial hits Spider-Man:Turn Off the Dark, Wicked, The Lion King and The Book of Mormon continue to be very strong, with The Lion King going over the $2M mark, and The Book of Mormon setting a house record at the Eugene O'Neill for the 38th time!  Hello!

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	Once	Musical	Bernard B. Jacobs	4	+1
4	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	4	Same
5 tie	Disney's Newsies: The Musical	Musical	Nederlander	3	-2
5 tie	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	6	+1
7	Rock of Ages	Musical	Helen Hayes	7	Same
8	Jersey Boys	Musical	August Wilson	7	-1
9	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	26	+17
10	Chicago	Musical Revival	Ambassador	15	+5
11	One Man, Two Guvnors	Play	Music Box	13	+2
12	Harvey	Play Revival	Studio 54	9	-3
13	Bring It On: The Musical	Musical	St. James	-	+16
14	Disney's Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	12	-2
15 tie	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	18	+3
15 tie	Mamma Mia	Musical	Winter Garden	10	-5
17	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	11	-6
18	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Brooks Atkinson	17	-1
19 tie	War Horse	Play	Vivian Beaumont	16	-3
19 tie	Clybourne Park	Play	Walter Kerr	20	+1
21	Gore Vidal's The Best Man	Play Revival	Gerald Schoenfeld	14	-7
22 tie	Sister Act	Musical	Broadway	22	Same
22 tie	A Streetcar Named Desire	Play Revival	Broadhurst	27	+5
24	Memphis	Musical	Shubert	24	Same
25	The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess	Musical Revival	Richard Rodgers	18	-7
26	Ghost: The Musical	Musical	Lunt-Fontanne	23	-3
27 tie	Fela!	Musical Revival	Al Hirschfeld	-	+2
27 tie	End of the Rainbow	Play	Belasco	28	+1

SRO: The Book of Mormon, Disney's Newsies, Once, Harvey, Disney's The Lion King

$100+ Tickets: The Book of Mormon, The Lion King, Wicked, Once, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages, Newsies, Evita, One Man, Two Guvnors, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jersey Boys

$1M Club: Wicked, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, The Book of Mormon, Newsies, Once, Evita, Mary Poppins
$2M Club: The Lion King

Jeff

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