INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 12/1; Broadway Celebrates Best Thanksgiving Ever

By: Dec. 01, 2014
WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS
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According to The Broadway League, week 27 of the current Broadway season (the week ending Sunday, November 30, 2014), was the highest grossing and best attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway in recorded history.

The total gross for this past week, ending November 30, 2014, was $34,121,642 (an increase of $2.6 million from last season) and total attendance was 284,569 (an increase of 23,513 from last season).

Also of note, The Illusionists - Witness The Impossible which opens on Broadway this Thursday night, December 4 at the Marriott Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway) enjoyed a great first seven performances in New York City, grossing $1,048,857.70 in the week ending November 30.

Aladdin and The Lion King both broke the house records at their respective theatres, The New Amsterdam Theatre and The Minskoff Theatre, for the week ending November 30, 2014.

Aladdin, Disney's Tony Award®-winning new musical comedy, grossed $1,759,955.00, breaking the previous record of $1,614,428.00 set by the show for the week ending October 12, 2014. This marks the third time Aladdin has broken the New Amsterdam Theatre house record since opening on March 20, 2014.

Disney's award-winning best musical, The Lion King, broke the house record for an eight performance week at the Minskoff Theatre with a gross of $2,422,718.50. This breaks the previous record of $2,365,402.00 set by The Lion King for the week ending December 1, 2013 and is the 19th house record set by the show for an eight performance week since it moved to the Minskoff Theatre in 2006.

Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 11/30/2014.


Top 5 by This Week Gross
WICKED $2,432,132
THE LION KING $2,422,719
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,875,135
ALADDIN $1,759,955
MATILDA $1,454,493
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
LOVE LETTERS ($309,103), THIS IS OUR YOUTH ($341,572), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS ($351,277), ROCK OF AGES ($360,759), DISGRACED ($412,694)

Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
WICKED $979,623
THE LION KING $711,252
MATILDA $690,490
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $454,438
CINDERELLA $435,601
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
LOVE LETTERS ($-102,662), THE LAST SHIP ($-38,645), THE REAL THING ($-24,509), DISGRACED ($-20,904), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS ($-14,859)

Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE BOOK OF MORMON $214.28
THE LION KING $178.11
BEAUTIFUL $175.11
IT'S ONLY A PLAY $169.31
THE RIVER $161.00
Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THIS IS OUR YOUTH ($68.63), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS ($69.18), THE LAST SHIP ($71.45), LOVE LETTERS ($77.70), SIDE SHOW ($80.51)

Top 5 by Gross % of Potential
WICKED 128.6%
THE BOOK OF MORMON 125.49%
MATILDA 112.99%
ALADDIN 112.39%
THE ELEPHANT MAN 109.12%
Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (31.15%), THE LAST SHIP (36.88%), SIDE SHOW (39.28%), LOVE LETTERS (39.59%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (42.65%)

Top 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
THE BOOK OF MORMON 102.6%
THE RIVER 101.1%
THE ELEPHANT MAN 100.4%
MATILDA 100.1%
ALADDIN 100.0%
Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

LOVE LETTERS (53.2%), HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (54.9%), SIDE SHOW (55.6%), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (58.6%), THE LAST SHIP (59.5%)

Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
CINDERELLA 4263
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 3053
MATILDA 3045
WICKED 3044
PIPPIN 1850
Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
SIDE SHOW (-1597), MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (-1103), ON THE TOWN (-937), THE LAST SHIP (-804), LOVE LETTERS (-786)

That's all for this week... Other statistics that you'd like to see? Let us know!





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