Broadway Grosses: Box Office Perks Up as Fences Ends Its Record-Breaking Run

We’ll have to find something else to talk about in our weekly grosses roundup now that the Broadway revival of  Fences has closed. To paraphrase director Kenny Leon, August Wilson was surely smiling down on a production that set new records every week, including its final one, topping the list for capacity and earning an eye-popping $1,175,626. (We've always liked the Cort Theatre; now producers do, too.) In other news, the overall box office numbers climbed in the week after July 4, as visitors streamed in to NYC, and Broadway said farewell to Sherie Rene Scott’s autobiographical Everyday Rapture.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending July 11:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,650,562)
2. The Lion King ($1,634,367)
3. The Addams Family ($1,249,291)
4. Promises, Promises ($1,179,139)
5. Fences ($1,175,626)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Million Dollar Quartet ($476,470)
4. Lend Me a Tenor ($333,346)
3. Next to Normal ($321,740)
2. Everyday Rapture ($253,560)
1. Race ($248,053)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Fences (101.48%)
2. The Lion King (100.07%)
3. Wicked (100%)
4. Billy Elliot (97.84%)
5. Promises, Promises (93.72%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. West Side Story (66.31%)
4. Million Dollar Quartet (60.55%)
3. Lend Me a Tenor (59.41%)
2. Race (44.45%)
1. Come Fly Away (40.40%)

Data provided by the Broadway League.