Broadway Grosses: Box Office Slips; Next Fall Up in Final Week

Holiday weekends often give a boost to Broadway’s box offices, but this year’s Independence Day week (which culminated in a Sunday evening fireworks display on Manhattan’s West Side) resulted in drops at almost every show. You can probably guess the major exception: Fences, which broke the Cort Theatre record for the sixth time with $1,164,529. In non-Denzel news, six other shows topped $1 million, but only nine of 26 Broadway offerings attracted more than 90% of capacity. One of those was Next Fall, which ended its run at the Helen Hayes Theatre up almost $70,000 from the previous week and playing to 90.13% of capacity.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending July 4:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,620,851)
2. The Lion King ($1,583,358)
3. The Addams Family ($1,201,155)
4. Fences ($1,164,529)
5. Promises, Promises ($1,116,059)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Lend Me a Tenor ($361,312)
4. Next to Normal ($287,392)
3. Next Fall ($257,274)
2. Race ($221,779)
1. Everyday Rapture ($171,942)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Fences (101.70%)
2. The Lion King (100.04%)
3. Wicked (100%)
4. Billy Elliot (99.02%)
5. Mary Poppins (94.83%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Million Dollar Quartet (63.15%)
4. American Idiot (62.51%)
3. West Side Story (62.08%)
2. Race (57.66%)
1. Come Fly Away (42.99%)

Data provided by the Broadway League.