Broadway Grosses: Nice Work Gets Off to Nice Start

New shows continue to open their doors on Broadway as four productions (Clybourne Park, Don't Dress For Dinner, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Peter and the Starcatcher) began their runs this week. Nice Work pulled in a healthy $504,314 for only four performances. Other new offerings like Evita, Newsies and Once also continue to fill their houses, but long-running hits like The Lion King and Wicked held their spots at the top of the grosses chart. The hit revival of Death of a Salesman played only four performances this week due to Andrew Garfield's previous promotional commitments for his upcoming film The Amazing Spider-Man.

Here's a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending April 1:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,843,641)
2. Wicked ($1,841,661)
3. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,519,872)
4. The Book of Mormon ($1,485,024)
5. Evita ($1,424,700)*

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Other Desert Cities ($240,862)
4. Clybourne Park ($233,486)*
3. Peter and the Starcatcher ($143,579)**
2. Don’t Dress for Dinner ($110,317)***
1. Magic/Bird ($102,073)****

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Newsies (100.46%)*****
3. The Lion King (100.03%)
4. Death of a Salesman (99.86%)******
5. Wicked (96.75%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Venus in Fur (67.34%)
4. Porgy and Bess (63.41%)
3. Other Desert Cities (55.83%)
2. Priscilla Queen of the Desert (53.40%)
1. Magic/Bird (46.19%)****

*Number based on eight preview performances
**Number based on four preview performances
***Number based on five preview performances
****Number based on seven preview performances
*****Number based on three preview and five regular performances
******Number based on four regular performances
Data Provided by the Broadway League.