JK's TheatreScene: The 2013 - 2014 Box Office Final Summary

Friday, June 20, 2014

The 2013 - 2014 Box Office Final Summary

The numbers are in, and the 2013 - 2014 Broadway season showed gains in all three indicators (attendance, grosses and playing weeks) For more about the record books, click HERE. All is not sunny, though, as this analyst explains HERE. All told, from the beginning of the season (May 27, 2013) to the end (May 25, 2014), 69 shows played on Broadway, and here is how they stack up. (To see how this was calculated and compiled, click HERE.)

The top spot should be no surprise, nor should the continued success of star-driven, short-term revivals. The long-running spectacles are still holding their own (The Lion King, Wicked, and The Phantom of the Opera). Other long-runners seem to be running out of steam, with Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys and Once posting the biggest drops from last season. Plays - revivals and new productions - are, as usual, a love 'em or leave 'em thing, with quality generally winning out. The non-profit, subscriber-based shows are still generally skewed since their gross potential percentage is effected by lower subscription prices for longer periods, if not the whole run (see Violet and Casa Valentina as examples).

THE FINAL BOX OFFICE RANKING 2013 – 2014 BROADWAY SEASON
FINAL RANK	SHOW TITLE
1	*The Book of Mormon*
2	*Lucky Guy*
3	*Betrayal*
4	*A Raisin in the Sun*
5	*Hedwig and the Angry Inch*
6	*I'll Eat You Last*
7	*Kinky Boots*
8	*Il Divo*
9	*The Lion King*
10	*Wicked*

#12

#21

#24

11	*700 Sundays*
12	*If/Then*
13	*Les Miserables*
14	*Matilda*
15	*Motown*
16	*Of Mice and Men*
17	*Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill*
18	*Twelfth Night/Richard III*
19	*Pippin*
20	*Cabaret*
21	*Aladdin*
22	*Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike*
23	*Beautiful: The Carole King Musical*
24	*The Glass Menagerie*
25	*Newsies*
26	*Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark*
27	*The Realistic Joneses*
28	*Annie*
29	*The Phantom of the Opera*
30	*Rock of Ages*

#39

#44

31	*No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot*
32	*Jersey Boys*
33	*Once*
34	*All the Way*
35	*Outside Mullingar*
36	*The Cripple of Inishmaan*
37	*Bullets Over Broadway*
38	*Chicago*
39	*Rocky: The Musical*
40	*After Midnight*
41	*Mamma Mia!*
42	*The Trip to Bountiful*
43	*Cinderella*
44	*A Gentleman's Guide…*
45	*Violet*
46	*A Night with Janis Joplin*
47	*Big Fish*
48	*The Nance*
49	*Macbeth (Solo)*
50	*Nice Work If You Can Get It*

#55

#64

51	*The Big Knife*
52	*The Assembled Parties*
53	*First Date*
54	*The Bridges of Madison County*
55	*Casa Valentina*
56	*The Winslow Boy*
57	*Machinal*
58	*The Snow Geese*
59	*A Time to Kill*
60	*Macbeth (Lincoln Center)*
61	*Romeo and Juliet*
62	*Act One*
63	*Mothers and Sons*
64	*Soul Doctor*
65	*Let It Be*
66	*The Velocity of Autumn*
67	*Ann*
68	*Bronx Bombers*
69	*Forever Tango*

Jeff

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The 2013 - 2014 Box Office Final Summary

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