Broadway Grosses: Box Office Perks Up; Follies Tops $1 Million

Fall has officially arrived, and with it comes a happy uptick in Broadway's box offices. Especially heartening is the appearance of two new shows on the frontrunners’ list: The Broadway revival of Follies took the fifth position for grosses with an impressive total of $1,122,778. Leaping into fourth place for capacity is Relatively Speaking, the one-act comedies by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May, which filled the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to 98.09% in its first week of previews.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending September 25:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,561,913)
2. The Lion King ($1,352,896)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,293,272)
4. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,269,403)
5. Follies ($1,122,778)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. The Addams Family ($590,557)
4. Chicago ($509,898)
3. The Mountaintop ($411,044)*
2. Rock of Ages ($364,622)
1. Man and Boy ($229,157)**

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. The Lion King (100.04%)
3. War Horse (99.54%)
4. Relatively Speaking (98.09%)**
5. Jersey Boys (98.06%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Priscilla Queen of the Desert (80.77%)
4. Chicago (78.37%)
3. The Addams Family (71.41%)
2. Man and Boy (70.26%)**
1. Mary Poppins (68.20%)

*Number based on five preview performances.
**Number based on eight preview performances.
Data provided by the Broadway League.