Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/6/23

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/6/2023 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.

Of note this week: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL opened at the Winter Garden on 8/3.  PARADE had a 9-performance week and closed on 8/6. THE SHARK IS BROKEN is in previews at the Golden and opens on 8/10. ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME cancelled 1 performance (Weds. 8/2 evening). There were two capacities for WICKED at the Gershwin Theatre this week. Four performances had 1,807 seats and four performances had 1,926 seats, for a total capacity of 14,932. As this report cannot accommodate both capacities, the figure 1,867 was used. HERE LIES LOVE grossed $924,854.80 for the week ending August 6, marking the musical’s best week so far on Broadway.                        

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (6.3%), GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR (4.4%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (4.4%), JUST FOR US (4%), SHUCKED (2.2%), FUNNY GIRL (1.6%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (1.3%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (1.2%), THE SHARK IS BROKEN (1%), ALADDIN (0.7%), HADESTOWN (0.3%), THE COTTAGE (0.3%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (0.2%), PARADE (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (-3.7%), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-1.9%), CHICAGO (-1.8%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-1.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-1.7%), & JULIET (-1.2%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (-0.7%), WICKED (-0.7%), HERE LIES LOVE (-0.6%), SIX (-0.5%), THE LION KING (-0.4%), HAMILTON (-0.2%),

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This week, 26 shows played on Broadway, with 230,393 tickets sold and a total gross of $30,058,627. The average ticket price was $130.47.

This was less than the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was down -7.30%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -3.62% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $130.47 is up $4.97 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING: $2,493,550
HAMILTON: $1,922,324
WICKED: $1,910,102
FUNNY GIRL: $1,828,701
PARADE: $1,814,013


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($269,501), THE COTTAGE ($308,305), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME ($514,442), JUST FOR US ($569,002), CHICAGO ($637,272)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: $334,720
PARADE: $286,076
FUNNY GIRL: $155,891
SOME LIKE IT HOT: $85,870
JUST FOR US: $78,485


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
THE LION KING ($-320,244), WICKED ($-229,323), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL ($-183,318), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME ($-64,936), KIMBERLY AKIMBO ($-38,522)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
FUNNY GIRL: $196.93
PARADE: $192.49
THE LION KING: $190.00
HAMILTON: $179.40
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $171.94


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE SHARK IS BROKEN ($45.22), JUST FOR US ($77.63), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME ($87.34), THE COTTAGE ($88.42), SHUCKED ($89.70)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
PARADE: 102.7%
HAMILTON: 101.2%
HADESTOWN: 100.4%
ALADDIN: 98.7%
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: 98.6%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (52.5%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (61.6%), THE COTTAGE (75%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (76.7%), CHICAGO (78.5%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
THE SHARK IS BROKEN: 1537
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: 1398
JUST FOR US: 987
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL: 584
SOME LIKE IT HOT: 513


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
WICKED (-1866), THE LION KING (-1690), ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME (-1321), SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-199), MJ THE MUSICAL (-186)

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..