Broadway Grosses: Three Shows Top $2 Million in Record-Breaking Week

What a difference a year makes for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: The show that many people considered D.O.A. when it began previews last November (!) raked in more than $2 million at the box office during a smashing Thanksgiving week. Perennial winners Wicked and The Lion King also grossed more than $2 million, with the Disney tuner and the remaining box office frontrunners (The Book of Mormon and Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway) setting new records at their respective theaters. Five additional shows broke the $1 million mark, which would normally be more than enough to place them in the top five. If only every week could be Thanksgiving on Broadway!

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending November 27:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($2,205,025)
2. The Lion King ($2,079,616)
3. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($2,070,196)
4. The Book of Mormon ($1,677,963)
5. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway ($1,472,987)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Man and Boy ($315,015)
4. An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin ($313,879)*
3. Chinglish ($274,260)
2. Stick Fly ($270,599)**
1. Lysistrata Jones ($152,419)**

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway (102.19%)
3. The Lion King (100.04%)
4. War Horse (100% - tie)
4. Wicked (100% - tie)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Stick Fly (63.79%)**
4. Relatively Speaking (61.64%)
3. Priscilla Queen of the Desert (61.17%)
2. Follies (47.01%)
1. Chinglish (45.39%)

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