All season, I've been tracking the Broadway Box Office, and ranking the shows according to % of Gross Potential, Average Ticket Price, and Attendance. Below, I have prepared a complete chart of all 80 shows that played Broadway between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2012. (The official figures ran through May 26. The first week of the 2013 - 2014 season ends June 2, 2013.)
I have separated out the 5 "Special Engagements" because they represent a statistcal anomoly. The other 75 shows are ranked 1 - 75 in each of the 3 categories, then totalled. The totals this season could range anywhere from 3 points through 225 points. The show with the lowest total is top ranked, and so on. The final totals and rankings are listed in the far right columns. An "*" denotes a tie at that number.
THE TOP FIVE SHOWS (Note that there is only 2 are musicals!)
The Book of Mormon
Lucky Guy
Death of a Salesman
I'll Eat You Last
Glengarry Glen Ross*
The Lion King*
The Lion King*
THE TOP FIVE NOT-FOR-PROFIT SHOWS (Because, until they go into extended runs (Harvey) or transfer (Other Desert Cities), their totals will always be skewed by lower ticket price averages.)
Harvey
The Nance
The Assembled Parties
The Other Place
The Columnist
Note: This season, Anything Goes, War Horse, Other Desert Cities and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were all commercial runs and/or transfers.
THE 2012 -2013 BROADWAY SEASON BOX OFFICE
SHOW
|
GROSS
POTENTIAL
|
GP
RANK
|
AVG.
TICKET
PRICE
|
ATP
RANK
|
ATTEND
|
ATTN
RANK
|
TOTAL
RANK
PTS.
|
FINAL
RANK
|
*Frankie
Valli
|
99.52%
|
B
|
$123.34
|
B
|
92.59%
|
B
|
B
|
B
|
*Lewis
Black
|
110.00%
|
A
|
$90.14
|
E
|
100.29%
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
*Manilow
on
Broadway
|
71.76%
|
D
|
$120.98
|
D
|
80.46%
|
D
|
E
|
E
|
*Mike Tyson
|
70.44%
|
E
|
$133.18
|
A
|
70.88%
|
E
|
D
|
D
|
*The Rascals
|
89.56%
|
C
|
$121.58
|
C
|
91.77%
|
C
|
C
|
C
|
A Christmas
Story
|
73.47%
|
16
|
$94.09
|
20
|
89.56%
|
17
|
53
|
17
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
38.02%
|
59
|
$66.49
|
55
|
61.49%
|
65
|
179
|
65
|
An Enemy of the People
|
32.75%
|
63
|
$47.28
|
72
|
76.52%
|
38
|
173
|
61
|
Ann
|
27.61%
|
71
|
$64.96
|
57
|
51.54%
|
72
|
200
|
72
|
Annie
|
67.29%
|
19
|
$87.81
|
29
|
77.44%
|
34
|
82
|
24
|
Anything Goes
|
32.43%
|
65
|
$69.16
|
52
|
83.12%
|
24
|
141
|
42
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's
|
40.07%
|
54
|
$66.40
|
56
|
63.82%
|
62
|
172
|
58*
|
Bring It On
|
55*
|
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
28*
|
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Chaplin
|
49
|
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Chicago
|
25*
|
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Cinderella
|
19
|
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Clybourne
Park
|
41
|
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Cyrano de Bergerac
|
58*
|
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Dead Accounts
|
57
|
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Death of a Salesman
|
3
|
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Don't Dress for Dinner
|
69
|
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Elf
|
23
|
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End of the Rainbow
|
67
|
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Evita
|
20
|
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Fela!
|
68
|
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Ghost
|
53
|
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Glengarry
Glen Ross
|
5*
|
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Godspell
|
73
|
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Golden Boy
|
66
|
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Grace
|
52
|
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Hands on a Hardbody
|
70*
|
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Harvey
|
22*
|
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I'll Eat You Last
|
4
|
|||||||
Jekyll and Hyde
|
70*
|
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Jersey Boys
|
13*
|
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Jesus Christ Superstar
|
54
|
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Kinky Boots
|
16
|
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Lucky Guy
|
2
|
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Macbeth
|
31
|
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Mamma Mia
|
30
|
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Mary
Poppins
|
33
|
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Matilda
|
13*
|
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Memphis
|
50*
|
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Motown
|
8*
|
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Newsies
|
12
|
|||||||
Nice Work If You Can Get It
|
32
|
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Once
|
8*
|
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One Man, Two Guvnors
|
18
|
|||||||
Orphans
|
37
|
|||||||
Other Desert Cities
|
38
|
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Peter and the Starcatcher
|
44*
|
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Picnic
|
58*
|
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Pippin
|
10
|
|||||||
Porgy and
Bess
|
43
|
|||||||
Priscilla
Queen of the Desert
|
63*
|
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Rock of Ages
|
11
|
|||||||
Scandalous
|
76
|
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Sister Act
|
45*
|
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Spider-Man
|
15
|
|||||||
The Anarchist
|
50*
|
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The Assembled Parties
|
40
|
|||||||
The Best Man
|
25*
|
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The Big Knife
|
62
|
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The Book of Mormon
|
1
|
|||||||
The Columnist
|
48
|
|||||||
The Heiress
|
25*
|
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The Lion King
|
5*
|
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The Lyons
|
74
|
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
|
55*
|
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The Nance
|
36
|
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The Other Place
|
45*
|
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The Performers
|
75
|
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The Phantom of the Opera
|
21
|
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The Testament of Mary
|
63*
|
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The Trip to Bountiful
|
39
|
|||||||
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
|
28*
|
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Venus in Fur
|
35
|
|||||||
War Horse
|
34
|
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
47
|
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Wicked
|
7
|
Jeff
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