Broadway Grosses: The Book of Mormon Sets Yet Another Record as Five Shows End Their Runs

Another week, another record broken by The Book of Mormon: For the 44th time, the mega-hit musical set a new house record at the 1,068-seat Eugene O'Neill Theatre, earning more than $1.8 million in a week that included New Year's Eve. Three of the four other frontrunners were long-running hits, joined by relative newcomer Annie, in a week that saw nine shows pass the million-dollar mark. Meanwhile, Broadway said farewell to five productions, setting the stage for a slew of new shows: Chaplin, Dead Accounts, Elf, Grace and the Tony-winning War Horse ended their Main Stem engagements.

Here's a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending January 6:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($2,106,339)
2. The Lion King ($2,017,921)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,833,432)
4. Spider-Man,Turn Off the Dark ($1,636,789)
5. Annie ($1,252,683)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Golden Boy ($329,636)
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ($258,795)*
3. Dead Accounts ($254,255)
2. Picnic ($184,458)**
1. The Other Place ($158,737)**

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Once (101.80%)*
3. Newsies (100.50%)
4. The Lion King (100.04%)
5. Wicked (99.64%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Picnic (62.28%)**
4. Golden Boy (62.81%)
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (57.05%)*
2. Dead Accounts (44.92%)
1. The Heiress (42.36%)

*Number based on seven regular performances.
**Number based on eight preview performances.

Data provided by the Broadway League