Broadway Box Office: Week 28: 12.03 - 12.09.2012

Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin

Congratulations to Chaplin's Rob McClure!  He is the recipient of the 2012 Clive Barnes Award for Theatre!  Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on your extension through March 10!  And finally, to the casts and crews of Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking, Annie, A Christmas Story and Grace  for being named in the Theater Top 10 for 2012 in Time Magazine!

BROADWAY BOX OFFICE

Week #28; 30 Productions

December 3 - 9, 2012

Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross

Opened This Week:

• Glengarry Glen Ross - 6 previews, 2 performances
• Golden Boy - 3 previews, 5 performances

Carolee Carmello and Company in Scandalous

Closed This Week:

• Scandalous - 31 previews, 29 performances

The box office is down, as it usually is just before the busiest week of the entire year.  As you'll see the box office race is tight - 11 shows are tied for their spots on the chart and 11 shows are exactly where they were last week!  The biggest losers for the week is the now-closed Scandalous, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Anarchist, Dead Accounts; the biggest winners are the soon-to-close War Horse, Elf, Chicago, Chaplin, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood !

Rank This Week	Show Title	Show Type	Theatre	Rank Last Week	Up/ Down
1	The Book of Mormon	Musical	O'Neill	1	Same
2 tie	The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	4	+2
2 tie	Once	Musical	Jacobs	3	+1
4	Glengarry Glen Ross	Play Revival	Schoenfeld	1	-3
5	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	5	Same
6 tie	Jersey Boys	Musical	Wilson	6	Same
6 tie	Rock of Ages	Musical	Hayes	7	+1
8	Newsies	Musical	Nederlander	8	Same
9	A Christmas Story	Musical	Lunt-Fontanne	9	Same
10	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	9	-1
11	Elf	Musical Revival	Hirschfeld	18	+7
12 tie	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	12	Same
12 tie	Annie	Musical  Revival	Palace	11	-1
12 tie	War Horse	Play	Beaumont	12	Same
15 tie	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	15	Same
15 tie	The Heiress	Play Revival	Kerr	14	-1
17 tie	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	19	+2
17 tie	Chicago	Musical  Revival	Ambassador	23	+6
19	Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	19	Same
20	Mamma Mia!	Musical	Winter Garden	20	+1
21	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Musical  Revival	Studio 54	24	+3
22	Dead Accounts	Play	Music Box	17	-5
23	The Anarchist	Play	Golden	16	-7
24	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Play Revival	Booth	22	-2
25	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Atkinson	25	Same
26	Chaplin	Musical	Barrymore	29	+3
27	Grace	Play	Cort	27	Same
28	Bring It On: The Musical	Musical	St. James	30	+2
29	Golden Boy	Play Revival	Belasco	27	-2
30	Scandalous	Musical	Neil Simon	26	-4

Before you go... (Click the blue links!)
Check out these reviews: 

• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• A Christmas Story

Check out these Broadway Babies:

• The Book of Mormon's Matt Doyle (Mr. December)
• A Christmas Story's Erin Dilly (Ms. November)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood's Eric Sciotto - Chat Part 2! 
• Spencer Plachy (Face of the Future)

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Jeff