Broadway Grosses: Betrayal Has a Record-Breaking Debut Week, Glass Kicks Ass at the Box Office

Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall aren’t messing around! The trio's revival of Betrayal began performances this week, and if the Broadway community weren’t already aware of the presence of these mega-movie stars, it is now! Motown, Pippin and The Lion King were shockingly knocked out from the top of the capacity charts by the pair of heavy-hitting plays: Betrayal and the newly opened (and newly extended) The Glass Menagerie. Both tickets are two of the fall’s hottest, with Betrayal smashing the Barrymore Theatre’s house record (breaking the record set by Death of a Salesman in June 2012).

Check out the list below to see who was on top—and who wasn’t—for the week ending October 6:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Book of Mormon ($1,760,259)
2. The Lion King ($1,722,720)
3. Kinky Boots ($1,629,721)
4. Wicked ($1,543,608)
5. Motown The Musical ($1,394,785)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. A Night with Janis Joplin ($281,871)
4. A Time to Kill ($215,552)*
3. The Snow Geese ($200,041)*
2. The Winslow Boy ($169,325)
1. Soul Doctor ($111,912)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Kinky Boots (100.68%)
3. Betrayal (100%)*
4. The Glass Menagerie (99%)
5. Matilda (98.2%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. First Date (63.26%)
4. The Winslow Boy (59.65%)
3. Annie (56.18%)
2. Cinderella (55.83%)
1. Romeo and Juliet (48.41%)

* Number based on seven preview performances

Data provided by the Broadway League