Broadway Grosses: Hairspray & Beauty Hold Strong; Xanadu Climbs

The Broadway production of Hairspray celebrated yet another great week at the box office as the feature film opened across the country, filling the Neil Simon Theatre to 100.18% of capacity and grossing more than $865,000. Beauty and the Beast played to full houses in its final days at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, grossing more than $1,100,000. Also holding strong: the soon-to-be-filmed Mamma Mia!, which filled the Winter Garden to 100.14% this week. Meanwhile, new musical Xanadu continued to gain ground after receiving good reviews from a handful of powerful critics. The show doubled its gross in the past two weeks and filled the Helen Hayes to over 87% of capacity even though leading man Cheyenne Jackson was out of town fulfilling a previous theatrical commitment.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending July 22:

FRONTRUNNERS By Gross
1. Wicked $1,472,649
2. The Lion King $1,283,279
3. Mary Poppins $1,226,944
4. Jersey Boys $1,197,014
5. Beauty and the Beast $1,139,499

UNDERDOGS By Gross
5. Xanadu $295,463
4. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee $246,647
3. The Year of Magical Thinking $181,193*
2. Deuce $178,253
1. Old Acquaintance $155,086

FRONTRUNNERS By Capacity
1. Jersey Boys 100.79%
2. Hairspray 100.18%
3. Mamma Mia! 100.14%
4. Beauty and the Beast 100.08%
5. The Lion King 100.02%

UNDERDOGS By Capacity
5. The Drowsy Chaperone 68.38%
4. Rent 65.03%
3. The Year of Magical Thinking 63.03%*
2. Old Acquaintance 61.28%
1. Deuce 42.26%

*Number based on 7 regular performances
Data provided by the League of American Theatres and Producers.