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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/20/23

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Aug. 22, 2023
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Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/20/2023 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.

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE Neil Diamond MUSICAL (5.4%), GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR (1.4%), THE LION KING (1%), JUST FOR US (0.9%), & JULIET (0.3%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE SHARK IS BROKEN (-19.5%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-19.3%), FUNNY GIRL (-14%), WICKED (-10%), HERE LIES LOVE (-8.3%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-8.2%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (-6.9%), CHICAGO (-5.9%), ALADDIN (-4.1%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-2.9%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-2.7%), SIX (-2.6%), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (-2.5%), HADESTOWN (-2.3%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-2.2%), THE COTTAGE (-2%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-1.8%), SHUCKED (-1.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.8%), HAMILTON (-0.4%),

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This week, 26 shows played on Broadway, with 213,292 tickets sold and a total gross of $25,806,601. The average ticket price was $120.99.

This was up the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was down -2.55%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -6.69% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $120.99 is down $-5.36 compared to last week.


Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING: $2,226,635
HAMILTON: $1,904,853
WICKED: $1,559,480
MJ THE MUSICAL: $1,451,903
ALADDIN: $1,381,822

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($271,789), THE COTTAGE ($310,304), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME ($442,404), KIMBERLY AKIMBO ($545,955), CHICAGO ($616,318)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
JUST FOR US: $131,857
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR: $68,310
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE Neil Diamond MUSICAL: $65,599
THE SHARK IS BROKEN: $16,872
THE BOOK OF MORMON: $6,584

Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
FUNNY GIRL ($-668,186), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET ($-373,985), WICKED ($-248,813), THE LION KING ($-241,767), HADESTOWN ($-227,230)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
HAMILTON: $178.42
THE LION KING: $164.95
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $159.68
FUNNY GIRL: $155.16
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR: $149.23

Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($57.72), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME ($76.75), SHUCKED ($83.15), THE COTTAGE ($85.79), HADESTOWN ($92.74)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
HAMILTON: 100.8%
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR: 99.5%
JUST FOR US: 99.5%
THE LION KING: 99.5%
HADESTOWN: 98.9%

Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (44.9%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE Neil Diamond MUSICAL (58.2%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (67.2%), THE SHARK IS BROKEN (73.4%), CHICAGO (75.1%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE Neil Diamond MUSICAL: 499
THE LION KING: 137
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR: 96
JUST FOR US: 65
& JULIET: 28

Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-2031), WICKED (-1443), FUNNY GIRL (-1369), THE SHARK IS BROKEN (-1252), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-1067)

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..




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