Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/18/24: WICKED, CABARET & More Top the List

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/18/2024 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: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS opened at the Hudson on 8/12. THE WIZ closed on 8/18.

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (1%), SUFFS (0.7%), THE WIZ (0.6%), & JULIET (0.3%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (0.2%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.2%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-12.7%), JOB (-7.8%), SIX (-7.7%), THE NOTEBOOK (-6%), HAMILTON (-5.4%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-4%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-4%), THE LION KING (-3.1%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-2.4%), WICKED (-2.3%), ALADDIN (-1%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-0.9%), HADESTOWN (-0.6%), CHICAGO (-0.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.4%), STEREOPHONIC (-0.3%),

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This week, 25 shows played on Broadway, with 225,384 tickets sold and a total gross of $28,132,262. The average ticket price was $124.82.

This was less than the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was down -7.09%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -8.57% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $124.82 is down $-2.02 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING: $2,107,630
WICKED: $1,981,378
THE WIZ: $1,945,288
HAMILTON: $1,778,290
CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB: $1,520,726


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
JOB ($281,911), THE NOTEBOOK ($544,902), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS ($668,532), SUFFS ($713,408), SIX ($746,016)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
THE WIZ: $261,849
CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB: $16,522
OH, MARY!: $12,699
SUFFS: $6,523
MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: $4,485


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
WICKED ($-245,473), ALADDIN ($-239,236), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD ($-198,342), HAMILTON ($-179,581), THE GREAT GATSBY ($-142,849)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB: $182.10
HAMILTON: $179.59
THE OUTSIDERS: $173.52
THE LION KING: $161.31
THE WIZ: $150.77


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
JOB ($80.99), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS ($86.33), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS ($89.29), THE NOTEBOOK ($89.46), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL ($95.91)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
THE OUTSIDERS: 102.2%
THE WIZ: 100.8%
HADESTOWN: 100.2%
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: 100%
OH, MARY!: 100%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
JOB (74.9%), THE NOTEBOOK (74.9%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (75.9%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (79.4%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (79.9%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: 81
THE WIZ: 76
SUFFS: 58
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: 31
& JULIET: 20


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-1649), WICKED (-1279), SIX (-631), HAMILTON (-573), THE NOTEBOOK (-491)

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..