Broadway Grosses: Something Rotten! & More Strike Gold; Great White Way Celebrates End of Record-Breaking Season
Memorial Day Weekend marked the end of the 2014-15 Broadway season, and it certainly ended on a high note (and no, we don’t mean Kristin Chenoweth). It was the highest grossing and best attended year on the Great White Way, with an audience total of 13.1 million and a gross of $1.37 billion. Three of the four Tony-nominated musicals celebrated their highest-grossing weeks, including Something Rotten!, which joined the millionaires club for the first time at $1,064,165. The other two, Fun Home and An American in Paris, also celebrated their highest capacity, with the latter surpassing 100% for the first week. The fourth nominated musical, the Chita Rivera-led The Visit, saw a slight increase in capacity over the holiday week, but some Tony Awards recognition in two weeks would help the Kander and Ebb tuner’s numbers climb.
Here’s a look at who was on top—and who was not—for the week ending May 24:
FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1.The Lion King ($2,066,573)
2. Wicked ($1,776,153)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,551,727)
4. Aladdin ($1,516,242)
5. An American in Paris ($1,349,932)
UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Gigi ($457,095)
4. Hand to God ($442,073)
3. It Shoulda Been You ($378,180)
2. The Visit ($201,623)
1. Airline Highway ($172,882)
FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Fun Home (102.84%)
2. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
3. Fish in the Dark (101.57%)
4. The Audience (100.96%)*
5. An American in Paris (100.36%)
UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. It Shoulda Been You (73.01%)
4. Airline Highway (71.13%)
3. The Visit (66.52%)
2. Gigi (64.31%)
1. Wolf Hall Parts One & Two (57.87%)
* Number based on seven regular performances
Source: The Broadway League