INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 11/4

Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 11/3/2019.

This week, 34 shows played on Broadway, with 270,173 tickets sold and a total gross of $31,122,601. The average ticket price was $115.20.

Of note, HAMILTON had a special week - on Thursday, for the second year in a row, they hosted their popular fan performance by providing every ticket for $10 through the Ham4Ham lottery and on Wednesday they hosted the Hamilton Education Program (#EduHam) program for the 2019-20 year hosting 17 New York-area Title I-eligible high schools at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Each EduHam ticket is $10 for students and subsidized by an additional $60 from The Rockefeller Foundation and other generous funders.

This was the same as the number of shows as last week and down 3 vs. the same week last year. Compared to last week, attendance was down -2.85%. Versus last year, attendance was down -3.33%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -8.42% vs. last week and down -5.91% vs. this week last year. This week's average ticket price of $115.20 is down $-7.01 compared to last week and down $-3.17 compared to last year.

Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON	$2,408,121
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	$2,245,898
MOULIN ROUGE!	$2,180,900
THE LION KING	$1,968,299
TINA - THE Tina Turner MUSICAL	$1,463,622

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
THE LIGHTNING THIEF ($203,842), LINDA VISTA ($252,234), THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM ($281,028), Derren Brown: SECRET ($331,728), THE GREAT SOCIETY ($369,650)

Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

TINA - THE Tina Turner MUSICAL	$92,613
THE LIGHTNING THIEF	$30,722
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	$28,497
FROZEN	$21,322
ALADDIN	$17,352

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
HAMILTON ($-557,703), HADESTOWN ($-176,644), AIN'T TOO PROUD ($-158,167), TOOTSIE ($-148,738), DEAR EVAN HANSEN ($-91,398)

Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON	$224.35
MOULIN ROUGE!	$207.74
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	$192.38
HADESTOWN	$164.69
AMERICAN UTOPIA	$152.77

Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE LIGHTNING THIEF ($58.91), Derren Brown: SECRET ($66.71), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO ($74.36), TOOTSIE ($75.78), FROZEN ($75.79)

Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	130.3%
MOULIN ROUGE!	119.07%
HADESTOWN	111.44%
AMERICAN UTOPIA	110.16%
HAMILTON	105.14%

Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
THE LIGHTNING THIEF (23.82%), THE GREAT SOCIETY (31.12%), THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM (38.87%), Derren Brown: SECRET (41.93%), LINDA VISTA (43.19%)

Top 5 by % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	101.7%
HAMILTON	101.3%
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	101.2%
COME FROM AWAY	100.9%
MOULIN ROUGE!	100.8%

Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
THE LIGHTNING THIEF (40.3%), THE GREAT SOCIETY (53.9%), THE SOUND INSIDE (66.8%), THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM (67.4%), LINDA VISTA (67.4%)

Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

TINA - THE Tina Turner MUSICAL	1478
FROZEN	550
Derren Brown: SECRET	536
TOOTSIE	357
BEETLEJUICE	262

Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
CHICAGO (-715), WAITRESS (-629), THE GREAT SOCIETY (-525), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-491), MEAN GIRLS (-386)

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