Broadway Grosses: Summer Visitors Burn Up Box Office

When eight shows top $1 million at the box office, it’s a good week on Broadway. And when three of those shows are inching toward $2 million, as the trio of frontrunners did during Summer Solstice week, it’s a sign of good health on the Great White Way. In fact, half of the 30 shows on the boards did more than $850,000 in business, and almost every show posted a gain from the previous week. Meanwhile, Broadway said farewell to three high-profile revivals, Born Yesterday, The House of Blue Leaves and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending June 26:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,830,739)
2. The Lion King ($1,748,215)
3. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,702,866)
4. The Book of Mormon ($1,215,619)
5. Mary Poppins ($1,103,991)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. The Importance of Being Earnest ($338,319)
4. Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles ($318,309)*
3. Born Yesterday ($263,123)
2. Ghetto Klown ($252,835)**
1. Master Class ($226,694)***

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.43%)
2. Anything Goes (100.72%)
3. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (100.59%)****
4. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark (100.08%)
5. The Lion King (100.02%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Jerusalem (71.55%)
4. Ghetto Klown (71.50%)**
3. Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles (62.75%)*
2. Born Yesterday (49.99%)
1. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (42.67%)

*Number based on nine regular performances.
**Number based on six regular performances.
***Number based on eight preview performances.
****Number based on seven regular performances.
Data provided by the Broadway League.