Broadway Grosses: Tony Nominations Boost Box Office

The moment producers wait for each spring—the announcement of Tony nominations—has come and gone, with immediate effects at Broadway’s box offices. Topping the frontrunners’ list for capacity, Fences barely missed a place in the top five by gross, sitting a house record at the Cort Theatre with $1,008,104, a jump of more than $200,000 from the previous week. Of course, Tony nods aren’t everything, as the producers of smash hits The Addams Family and Promises, Promises would agree. Broadway said farewell to Enron, which played a rare nine-performance schedule before closing at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending May 9:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,529,199)
2. The Lion King ($1,371,385)
3. The Addams Family (1,274,582)
4. Promises, Promises ($1,175,789)
5. Billy Elliot ($1,116,112)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Next to Normal ($276,686)
4. God of Carnage ($260,819)
3. Everyday Rapture ($187,862)
2. Collected Stories ($148,166)
1. Next Fall ($132,749)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Fences (101.67%)
2. The Lion King (99.25%)
3. Wicked (98.81%)
4. Billy Elliot (96.95%)
5. The Addams Family (95.44%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Lend Me a Tenor (56.56%)
4. Next Fall (55.03%)
3. Race (53.02%)
2. Enron (50.67%)*
1. God of Carnage (44.53%)

*Number based on nine regular performances.
Data provided by the Broadway League.