Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/15/23

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/15/2023 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

Of note this week: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG opened at the Hudson on 10/10, and had five additional heavily comped press performances. Cheers,GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! opened at the Jones on 10/12. I NEED THAT began previews at the American Airlines and opens on 11/2. Indigenous Peoples' Day/Columbus Day weekend fell within the prior week.     

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SOME LIKE IT HOT (7.5%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (6.1%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (5.2%), THE SHARK IS BROKEN (4.8%), GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! (3.6%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (1.7%), MJ THE MUSICAL (1.5%), SIX (1.5%), HAMILTON (1.3%), & JULIET (0.4%), HERE LIES LOVE (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: MELISSA ETHERIDGE: MY WINDOW (-7.3%), JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING (-4.9%), ALADDIN (-3.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-3.5%), HADESTOWN (-2.4%), CHICAGO (-2%), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (-1.9%), THE COTTAGE (-1.5%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-1.3%), WICKED (-1.1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.7%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-0.6%), THE LION KING (-0.1%),

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This week, 27 shows played on Broadway, with 217,118 tickets sold and a total gross of $27,400,791. The average ticket price was $126.20.

This was up the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was up 2.48%. On the sales front, overall grosses were up 1.58% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $126.20 is down $-1.11 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING: $2,090,583
HAMILTON: $1,931,917
WICKED: $1,906,835
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $1,739,035
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: $1,706,962


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
MELISSA ETHERIDGE: MY WINDOW ($214,054), THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($245,225), JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING ($334,147), THE COTTAGE ($342,869), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH ($485,208)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: $462,566
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL: $123,304
JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING: $74,272
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $71,227
SOME LIKE IT HOT: $67,160


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
THE LION KING ($-230,998), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD ($-161,939), ALADDIN ($-115,631), HADESTOWN ($-61,111), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL ($-58,924)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: $220.88
HAMILTON: $180.69
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $166.86
THE LION KING: $155.06
MJ THE MUSICAL: $154.06


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($60.82), JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING ($70.08), HERE LIES LOVE ($86.48), SHUCKED ($93.41), THE COTTAGE ($98.02)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
HAMILTON: 100.9%
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: 100%
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: 99.4%
THE LION KING: 99.4%
MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: 98.9%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
MELISSA ETHERIDGE: MY WINDOW (55.5%), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (58.7%), THE SHARK IS BROKEN (62.8%), THE COTTAGE (75.3%), HERE LIES LOVE (78.9%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: 966
SOME LIKE IT HOT: 863
WICKED: 766
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL: 558
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: 549


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
ALADDIN (-511), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-299), JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING (-250), HADESTOWN (-183), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-168)

That's all for this week... Note: All data presented for informational purposes only. BroadwayWorld makes no guarantee as to the accuracy of the data, or the matter in which it's presented. Source: The Broadway League..

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