Broadway Grosses: Macbeth, Gentleman and Godot Join the Broadway Boards

With Halloween just around the corner, Broadway audiences are doing their best to scare up some great box office receipts on the Great White Way. Perennial frontrunners The Lion King, The Book of Mormon and Wicked (which will celebrate its 10th anniversary on October 30!) topped the week's list, though no show managed to eke past the coveted $2 million mark. New on the boards this week are the Ethan Hawke-led revival of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, and the new madcap musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. These latest productions should all pick up steam next week after a full week of performances.

Find out who was on top—and who was not—for the week ending October 27:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,798,361)
2. The Book of Mormon ($1,733,532)
3. Wicked ($1,693,555)
4. Kinky Boots ($1,651,626)
5. Motown The Musical ($1,425,902)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Romeo and Juliet ($363,076)
4. First Date ($352,833)
3. The Snow Geese ($251,343)*
2. A Time to Kill ($247,168)
1. The Winslow Boy ($230,058)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. The Glass Menagerie (101.30%)
3. Kinky Boots (100.68%)
4. Betrayal (100.00%)**
5. The Lion King (99.80%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Cinderella (66.11%)
4. The Winslow Boy (64.80%)
3. A Time to Kill (62.5%)
2. First Date (62.4%)
1. Romeo and Juliet (41.53%)

* Number based on three previews and five regular performances
** Number based on seven previews and one regular performance

Data provided by the Broadway League