Broadway Grosses: A Christmas Story Pulls in Holiday Crowds

The holidays are in full swing on Broadway! Yuletide tuner A Christmas Story, The Musical pulled in $1,130,429 in ticket sales, playing to a healthy 95% capacity. Family friendly musicals Annie and Elf also both took in around $1 million. On a less cheery note Scandalous ended its strugge of a Broadway run, taking in just $177,438 for its final week.

Here's a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending December 9.

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,833,258)
2. Wicked ($1,825,121)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,689,972) 
4. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,219,093)
5. Glengarry Glen Ross ($1,181,244)*

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Peter and the Starcatcher ($341,942)
4. The Anarchist  ($335,045)
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ($264,854)**
2. Golden Boy ($222,902)***
1. Scandalous ($177,438)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Once (99.91%)
3. The Lion King (98.12%)
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (96.16%)
5. A Christmas Story (95.02%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Chaplin (59.89%)
4. Dead Accounts (59.06%) 
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (53.36%)
2. Grace (50.87%) 
1. Scandalous (36.16%)

*Number based on six preview and two regular performances.
**Number based on seven regular performances.
***Number based on three preview and five regular performances.
Data provided by the Broadway League