Broadway Grosses: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder Maintains Killer Numbers Following Awards Season Success

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is still riding the Tony wave. After taking home this year’s Tony Award for Best Musical on June 8, the tuner has seen an 81.29% increase in average weekly gross (excluding seven and nine-show weeks). This past week, it grossed over 100% of its potential, for the second consecutive week, in part due to premium ticket sales and by exceeding capacity once again. Meanwhile, It’s Only a Play, in its first full week of performances post-opening, broke the Schoenfeld Theatre house record by bringing in $1,375,481. The house record was previously held by the Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig-led A Steady Rain for the week ending December 6, 2009.

Here’s a look at who was on top—and who was not—for the week ending October 20:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,895,200)
2. Wicked ($1,680,849)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,651,464)
4. Aladdin ($1,438,023)
5. It's Only a Play ($1,375,481)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. This Is Our Youth ($409,597)
4. Rock of Ages ($369,767)
3. Disgraced ($352,737)*
2. Love Letters ($319,810)
1. The Country House ($253,441)

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. It's Only a Play (101.15%)
3. A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (100.87%)
4. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (100.77%)
5. Wicked (99.78%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. If/Then (74.26%)
4. This Is Our Youth (68.28%)
3. Once (60.93%)
2. Cinderella (59.85%)
1. Love Letters (51.19%)

*Number based on eight preview performances

Source: The Broadway League