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Broadway Box Office

Week #9 of the 2012 - 2013 Season

July 23 - 29; 27 Productions

Despite the fact that more shows than not improved over last week, both in box office and attendance, the change was minimal with the overall totals in terms of money was up less than 1% and attendance was up only 2%.  This is pretty typical of the summer months. 9 shows maintained the same position as last week, while, with one less show, the bottom three are the same.  Only Evita showed any big change, up 5 spots on the chart to number 8, posting the biggest gains in both Box Office (+$214K) and attendance (+14%).  The coming week sees the closing of the season's first hit, Harvey (ending its limited engagement), and the 2010 Tony winner for Best Musical, Memphis, which announced today that it will close in the black. Hockadoo!  The week also sees the arrival of Mike Tyson:Undisputed Truth and the opening of Bring It On: The Musical.  Set to close soon are: Ghost: The Musical, Fela!, Sister Act, Clybourne Park, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Gore Vidal's The Best Man. 

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

Jeff

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