Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/17/24 - WICKED, SUNSET BLVD. & More Top the List

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/17/2024 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

Of note this week: A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL opened at Studio 54 on 11/11.  MAYBE HAPPY ENDING opened at the Belasco on 11/12. TAMMY FAYE opened at the Palace on 11/14. ELF opened at the Marquis on 11/17. SWEPT AWAY is in previews at the Longacre and opens on 11/19. DEATH BECOMES HER is in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne and opens on 11/21. The production had four heavily comped press performances. HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD debuted its new version of the play on 11/12 and had a planned seven-performance week. By gross, WICKED has claimed the number one spot since late September. 

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: YELLOW FACE (6.7%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (4.9%), TAMMY FAYE (4.3%), HAMILTON (2.7%), OUR TOWN (2.5%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (1.6%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-23.2%), CHICAGO (-14.4%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-8.9%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-8.4%), & JULIET (-8.2%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-7.2%), THE NOTEBOOK (-7.1%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-5.9%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (-4.9%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-4.9%), THE LION KING (-4.2%), ELF (-4%), LEFT ON TENTH (-3.8%), HADESTOWN (-3.3%), SWEPT AWAY (-2.2%), SUNSET BLVD. (-2%), ALADDIN (-2%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-1.9%), SUFFS (-1.9%), THE ROOMMATE (-1.8%), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (-1.5%), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (-1.1%), SIX (-1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-0.6%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-0.4%), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (-0.2%), STEREOPHONIC (-0.1%),

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This week, 37 shows played on Broadway, with 304,368 tickets sold and a total gross of $35,104,796. The average ticket price was $115.34.

This was the same as the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was down -0.64%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -3.74% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $115.34 is down $-3.71 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
WICKED: $2,445,380
SUNSET BLVD.: $1,902,072
THE LION KING: $1,798,468
HAMILTON: $1,632,449
THE OUTSIDERS: $1,422,144


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
TAMMY FAYE ($374,370), YELLOW FACE ($414,163), SWEPT AWAY ($426,788), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING ($458,827), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA ($474,266)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
ELF: $233,951
DEATH BECOMES HER: $181,842
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING: $160,860
YELLOW FACE: $55,589
A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL: $49,342


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL ($-235,791), & JULIET ($-179,099), THE LION KING ($-164,626), CHICAGO ($-158,056), THE GREAT GATSBY ($-156,262)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
MCNEAL: $181.17
THE OUTSIDERS: $171.43
OH, MARY!: $161.08
HAMILTON: $160.82
WICKED: $158.71


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
ELF ($50.58), SWEPT AWAY ($64.97), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING ($65.15), TAMMY FAYE ($65.31), YELLOW FACE ($77.37)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
ROMEO + JULIET: 102.4%
THE OUTSIDERS: 101.3%
MCNEAL: 100%
WICKED: 100%
OH, MARY!: 100%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (59.9%), CHICAGO (61.7%), TAMMY FAYE (62.7%), LEFT ON TENTH (64.2%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (68.4%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
ELF: 7077
DEATH BECOMES HER: 2688
SWEPT AWAY: 660
YELLOW FACE: 393
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING: 391


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-2751), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-1500), CHICAGO (-1240), THE GREAT GATSBY (-1053), MJ THE MUSICAL (-924)

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