Broadway Grosses: Nine Shows Top $1 Million in Busy Week

When nine out of 25 Broadway productions ring up $1 million in sales, it can only mean one thing: summer in New York City! More than a third of the shows currently running on the Great White Way reached the magic number last week, including Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway, which hauled in $1,139,695 for only six performances at the Neil Simon Theatre, just missing the frontrunners’ list for grosses but topping the list for capacity. A million dollars is actually small potatoes for the top two grossers on our list, as Wicked and The Lion King rang up $1.7 and $1.6 in sales for a truly sizzling week.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending July 25:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,707,154)
2. The Lion King ($1,617,207)
3. The Addams Family ($1,300,420)
4. Promises, Promises ($1,219,812)
5. Mary Poppins ($1,186,992)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. A Little Night Music ($468,750)
4. Million Dollar Quartet ($458,469)
3. Lend Me a Tenor ($377,349)
2. Next to Normal ($276,145)
1. Race ($239,745)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway (100.12%)*
2. The Lion King (100.01%)
3. Wicked (100%)
4. Billy Elliot (99.45%)
5. The Phantom of the Opera (97.68%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. American Idiot (72.26%)
4. Lend Me a Tenor (69.36%)
3. Million Dollar Quartet (56.32%)
2. Come Fly Away (48.97%)
1. Race (44.74%)

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