Broadway Box Office: Week 19: 10.01 - 10.07.12

Broadway Box Office
Week #19 of the 2012 - 2013 Season

October 1- 7; 24 Productions

The two new shows this week, Annie and The Heiress, are highly anticipated revivals, with the latter starting out very well, debuting at number 11 out of 24 shows.  The same top 7 shows are, as usual fighting it out for position.  This marks the first week in some time that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has dropped out of the top 10.  Evita, Bring It On and An Enemy of the People posted significant drops on the chart.  BUT what is interesting about that is that only Enemy posted a significant loss in attendance, down over 11%.  The only other show that went down in attendance was Grace down less than 1%.  Every other show posted gains in Gross, and only because they sold every possible ticket last week, too, The Book of Mormon is the only other show that didn't gain in attendance.  Chicago made the biggest overall gain.  i have to admit that I'm surprised that Once held its own with Tony-winner Steve Kazee out last week on vacation.  Perhaps that bodes well for the show itself, post-Kazee.
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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	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	5	+3
3	Disney's The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	2	-1
4	Once	Musical	Bernard B. Jacobs	3	-1
5	Jersey Boys	Musical	August Wilson	4	-1
6	Disney's Newsies	Musical	Nederlander	6	Same
7	Rock of Ages	Musical	Helen Hayes	7	Same
8	Chicago	Musical Revival	Ambassador	14	+6
9	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	8	-1
10	Mamma Mia!	Musical	Winter Garden	12	+2
11 tie	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	10	-1
11 tie	The Heiress	Play Revival	Walter Ker	New	New
13	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	10	-3
14	War Horse	Play	Vivian Beaumont	12	-2
15 tie	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	9	-6
15 tie	Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	17	+2
17	Annie	Musical Revival	Palace	New	New
18	Grace	Play	Cort	15	-3
19	Chaplin	Musical	Barrymore	16	-3
20	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Play Revival	BoothFriedman	19	-1
21	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Brooks Atkinson	21	Same
22	Bring It On: The Musical	Musical	St. James	17	-5
23	Cyrano de Bergerac	Play Revival	American Airlines	22	-1
24	An Enemy of the People	Play Revival	Friedman	20	-4

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Jeff

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