Broadway Box Office: Week 20: 10.08 - 10.14.12

BROADWAY BOX OFFICE

WEEK #20; 26 Productions

October 8 - 14, 2012

Began This Week: 

• Running On Empty - 6 performances
• Scandalous - 1 preview

In Previews:

• Annie - 8 Previews
• The Heiress - 8 previews

Opened This Week:

• Cyrano de Bergerac - 3 previews, 5 performances
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 5 previews, 2 performances

THE BOX OFFICE CHART

(Rank This Week, Show Title, Theatre, Type, Rank Last Week, (Comparison))

*1. The Book of Mormon  O'Neill  Musical  1 (Same)
2. Once  Jacobs  Musical  4 (+2)
*3. Wicked  Gershwin  Musical  2 (-1)
*4. The Lion King  Minskoff  Musical  3 (-1)
5. Running On Empty  Rodgers  Solo  n/a (n/a)
6. Rock of Ages  Hayes  Musical  7 (+1)
7. Jersey Boys  Wilson  Musical  5 (-2)
8. Newsies  Nederlander  Musical  6 (-2)
9. Evita  Marquis  Musical Revival  15 (+6)
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It  Imperial  Musical  9 (-1)
11. Chicago  Ambassador  Musical Revival  8 (-3)
12. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark  Foxwoods  Musical  13 (+1)
13. The Phantom of the Opera  Majestic  Musical  11 (-2)
14. The Heiress Kerr  Play Revival  11 (-3)
15. tie Mamma Mia!  Winter Garden  Musical  10 (-4)
15. tie War Horse  Beaumont  Play  14 (-1)
17. Grace  Cort  Play  18 (+1)
18. tie Mary Poppins  New Amsterdam  Musical  15 (-3)
18. tie Scandalous  Neil Simon  Musical  n/a (n/a)
20. Chaplin  Barrymore  Musical  19 (-1)
21. Annie  Palace  Musical Revival  17 (-4)
22. Cyrano de Bergerac  American Airlines  Play Revival  23 (+1)
23. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Booth  Play Revival  20 (-3)
24. Peter and the Starcatcher  Brooks Atkinson  Play  21 (-3)
25. An Enemy of the People  Freidman  Play Revival  24 (-1)
26. Bring It On: The Musical  St. James  Musical  22 (-4)

THE STATS

* - Top Three Grossing Shows
SRO: The Book of Mormon, Running On Empty, Once, Wicked
Biggest Gain - Attendance: Evita (+6.6%)
Biggest Gain - Gross: The Heiress (+$391K)
Biggest Loss - Attendance: Bring It On: The Musical (-20.7%)
Biggest Loss - Gross: Bring It On: The Musical (-$163K)

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