INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 3/26

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 3/25/2018.

This week, 34 shows played on Broadway, with 292,873 tickets sold and a total gross of $35,414,663. The average ticket price was $120.92.

This was up the number of shows as last week and up 2 vs. the same week last year. Compared to last week, attendance was up 10.12%. Versus last year, attendance was up 8.30%. On the sales front, overall grosses were up 10.83% vs. last week and up 17.99% vs. this week last year. This week's average ticket price of $120.92 is up $0.77 compared to last week and up $9.93 compared to last year.

Of Note:

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child grossed $1,541,957 for a six performance preview week (ending March 25) at the Lyric Theatre. The gross sales figure includes 300 seats at every performance priced at $40 or less per part, with 150 of these seats priced at $20 per part.

The new musical Mean Girls saw a final weekly gross gross of $1,265,646.10 in its second week of Broadway previews, over seven again completely sold-out performances.

Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON	$3,082,529
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	$2,407,110
THE LION KING	$2,071,519
WICKED	$1,815,639
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	$1,670,889

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ($327,696), LOBBY HERO ($333,114), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND ($507,742), ANGELS IN AMERICA ($549,003), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL ($599,740)

Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	$482,290
MY FAIR LADY	$408,587
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE	$143,528
FROZEN	$86,555
FARINELLI AND THE KING	$65,403

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
ANGELS IN AMERICA ($-245,890), THE BAND'S VISIT ($-100,138), ANASTASIA ($-80,883), HELLO, DOLLY! ($-74,236), HAMILTON ($-68,491)

Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	$507.83
HAMILTON	$286.67
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	$209.94
THE LION KING	$157.58
MEAN GIRLS	$146.93

Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
ANGELS IN AMERICA ($56.83), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ($66.70), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS ($72.11), LOBBY HERO ($81.81), SCHOOL OF ROCK ($86.18)

Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

DEAR EVAN HANSEN	117.24%
HAMILTON	106.45%
WICKED	102.01%
MEAN GIRLS	100.98%
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	100.96%

Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
ANGELS IN AMERICA (38.69%), ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (40.44%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (48.35%), LOBBY HERO (52.19%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (53.82%)

Top 5 by % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

THE BOOK OF MORMON	103.2%
HAMILTON	101.8%
DEAR EVAN HANSEN	101.1%
MEAN GIRLS	100.5%
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	100.0%

Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (63.2%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (71.9%), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (77.4%), SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (82.2%), FARINELLI AND THE KING (83.6%)

Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

MY FAIR LADY	3521
ANGELS IN AMERICA	1571
FROZEN	1398
SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY	948
SCHOOL OF ROCK	788

Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE (-2005), A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL (-1321), HELLO, DOLLY! (-1107), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-883), ANASTASIA (-834)

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..

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