A slate of Broadway newcomers drew strong audience figures last week, with several – An Enemy of the People, The Notebook and The Who’s Tommy filling every seat and then some.
Of the recent late-winter/early-spring arrivals, An Enemy of the People, the Ibsen revival starring Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti, was the top earner, grossing $1,109,137 and selling out Circle in the Square. Opening night is March 18.
Also at standing room only for the week ending March 10 was The Notebook, the musical adaptation of the bestselling book and hit movie. The production at the Schoenfeld grossed $769,387; opening night is March 14.
All seats were filled at the Nederlander as The Who’s Tommy began previews; the first two performances in the run took in $345,129. Opening night is March 28.
Water For Elephants played seven previews at the Imperial, grossing $723,077 and filling 93% of seats. Opening night is March 21.
The week’s sole opener was Doubt: A Parable, the well-reviewed revival of the John Patrick Shanley play starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber. The production took in $465,133, with attendance at 92% of capacity.
Sweeney Todd, which will close May 5, took in a healthy $1,312,391, the revival’s best number in recent weeks. With Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster in the lead roles, the production at the Lunt-Fontanne filled 95% of seats.
Hadestown continued its recent upsurge, filling the Walter Kerr and grossing $1,107,953.
Top earner of the week was Wicked, grossing $1,836,268.
In all, the 24 Broadway productions took in $24,545,774 for the week ending March 10, a jump of about 5% over the previous week but still about 14% lower than last year at this time. Attendance of 204,915 was at 91% of total capacity, a boost of 3% over the previous week but down 11% from last season.
Season to date, Broadway has grossed $1,191,502,256, with total attendance at 9,492,511.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For complete box office listings, visit the League’s website.