Broadway newcomers Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet, both in previews, topped the $1M mark in weekly grosses last week, while interesting things were happening over at Wicked: The long-running musical had its best week, by far, of the 2024-25 season, hitting nearly $2.5M.
The Wicked figure is a leap of $440,313 over the previous week and easily bests its previous season high of $2.2M from July. Looks like all the publicity surrounding the upcoming November movie release is having a definite Broadway impact, and — bonus points — Broadway favorite Donna McKechnie recently joined the production as Madame Morrible.
The Wicked take — $2,486,411, to be exact — put it at No. 1 on the Broadway box office chart for the week ending October 13, edging out its usual neck-and-neck rival The Lion King, which came in at No. 2 with $2,198,308.
The stellar number helped push total Broadway receipts to $34,268,132 for the week ending October 13, a bump of 16% over the previous week and 25% better than last season at this time. Total attendance for the 32 shows was 268,081, 6% over the previous week and up 23% year to year. With an overall average ticket price of $127.83, about 91% of Broadway seats were filled.
Among Broadway’s most recent arrivals, Sunset Blvd., the Jamie Lloyd-directed Andrew Lloyd Webber revival starring Nicole Scherzinger, was tops dollar-wise, grossing $1,291,902 for seven previews at the St. James, with attendance at 93% of capacity. Romeo + Juliet, starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, took in $1,036,486 for seven previews while filling completely Circle in the Square and then some: Attendance was SRO at 103%.
Opening night for Sunset is October 20, and October 24 for R+J.
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, with recent cast additions Adam Lambert and Auli’I Cravalho, saw a healthy $116,270 jump, putting the musical back above the $1M mark ($1,054,456) and filling 93% of seats at the August Wilson.
Some other notable numbers:
- Our Town, the Thornton Wilder revival headed by Jim Parsons, pulled in $658,707 for its opening week at the Barrymore, with heavy opening-night comps;
- Left on Tenth, the Susan Stroman-directed romantic comedy based on the Delia Ephron memoir and starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher, grossed $545,688, with 65% of seats at the James Earl Jones occupied. Opening night is October 23.
Suffs, the two-Tonys Shaina Taub musical that last week announced a January 5 closing, saw a jump of $88,180 to $767,769. About 90% of seats at the Music Box were filled, a noticeable surge over the 78% of the previous week.
Season to date, Broadway, in the 21st week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $649,921,987, up about 9% over last year at this time, with total attendance of 5,263,067, up about 7%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For complete box office listings, visit the League’s website.