Broadway Grosses: Tourists Beat the Heat at a Broadway Show

Yes, you could bake cookies on the dashboard of a car, but savvy visitors to New York City knew the perfect way to combat the heat wave: Get tickets to a cool (in more ways than one) Broadway show! Box office results rose across the board in a busy week, with the top three titles just a hair away from $2 million, four other shows topping $1 million and two more just shy of the magic number. The Book of Mormon held on to its S.R.O. status, just above four other sellout shows.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending July 24:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($1,882,731)
2. The Lion King ($1,854,764)
3. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,811,432)
4. The Book of Mormon ($1,256,764)
5. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ($1,223,226)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Rock of Ages ($377,204)
4. Jerusalem ($355,086)
3. Hair ($351,144)
2. Master Class ($301,291)
1. Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles ($280,648)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.43%)
2. Anything Goes (100.58%)
3. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (100.35%)
4. The Lion King (100.01%)
5. War Horse (100% - tie)
5. Wicked (100% - tie)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Sister Act (73.50%)
4. Jerusalem (65.15%)
3. Priscilla Queen of the Desert (61.35%)
2. Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles (56.52%)
1. Hair (49.19%)

Data provided by the Broadway League.