Broadway Grosses: Spring Hits Keep Packing Audiences In

We’re starting to sound like a broken record, but the big story of the spring season is that The Addams Family and revivals of Promises, Promises and Fences keep packing ’em in on Broadway. Among the long-running shows, Wicked, The Lion King, Billy Elliot and Jersey Boys continue to haul in more than $1 million a week. And although they aren’t on the front-runners lists, Tony-nominated musicals Fela!, Memphis and La Cage aux Folles are benefitting from awards-season publicity, with all three shows comfortably above $600,000 in grosses for the week.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending May 23:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,576,010)
2. The Lion King ($1,406,974)
3. The Addams Family (1,312,216)
4. Promises, Promises ($1,189,588)
5. Billy Elliot ($1,176,169)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Next to Normal ($308,824)
4. God of Carnage ($274,193)
3. Everyday Rapture ($236,859)
2. Collected Stories ($156,680)
1. Next Fall ($150,982)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Fences (101.67%)
2. The Lion King (100.02%)
3. Wicked (100%)
4. Jersey Boys (99.62%)
5. Billy Elliot (99.40%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Collected Stories (65.81%)
4. Next Fall (54.27%)
3. God of Carnage (53.42%)
2. Race (53%)
1. Hair (50.97%)

Data provided by the Broadway League.