Broadway gained momentum heading into Labor Day weekend, with cumulative grosses for the business up 11 % and all exhibits posting features in comparison with the prior week.
The Outsiders returned to its streak of breaking the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre home file, now for an eighth time with $1.52 million for the week ended Sept. 1, up near $100,000 from the prior week. One of the best musical Tony winner continues to play above one hundred pc capability and noticed its common ticket value rise to a brand new excessive of $185.
The musical has been a brand new entrant into the highest 5 weekly grossing productions within the business, taking the fifth spot final week. Depraved reigned with $2.2 million, adopted by The Lion King with $1.97 million, Hamilton with $1.86 million and Hell’s Kitchen with $1.54 million.
MJ The Musical, which started operating on Broadway in 2022, noticed the most important week-to-week leap within the business, with grosses up $243,918 week-over-week to succeed in $1.4 million. The biomusical performed to shut to 96 % capability.
Hamilton and Depraved noticed the following largest jumps in grosses, with Hamilton up $217,594, and Depraved up $203,776. The Guide of Mormon, which has been on Broadway since 2011 and remained a reasonably widespread present, noticed its grosses leap $185,639 to succeed in $935,569.
General attendance was up 8 % in comparison with this week final season.
The momentum, which generally occurs across the Labor Day vacation, carries Broadway out of the late summer season doldrums and into the autumn season, which is poised to welcome a number of new exhibits populated by some daring names.
The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, started previews on the Sales space Theatre on Aug. 29. The play, which is scheduled to open Sept. 12, introduced in $315,873 throughout its first 4 previews and performed to over one hundred pc capability.
Subsequent up are Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Yellow Face, starring Daniel Dae Kim, opening Sept. 29, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 respectively.