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INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 12/1; Broadway Celebrates Best Thanksgiving Ever
By: BWW Special Coverage Dec. 01, 2014
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According to The Broadway League, week 27 of the current Broadway season (the week ending Sunday, November 30, 2014), was the highest grossing and best attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway in recorded history. The total gross for this past week, ending November 30, 2014, was $34,121,642 (an increase of $2.6 million from last season) and total attendance was 284,569 (an increase of 23,513 from last season). Also of note, The Illusionists - Witness The Impossible which opens on Broadway this Thursday night, December 4 at the Marriott Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway) enjoyed a great first seven performances in New York City, grossing $1,048,857.70 in the week ending November 30. Aladdin and The Lion King both broke the house records at their respective theatres, The New Amsterdam Theatre and The Minskoff Theatre, for the week ending November 30, 2014. Aladdin, Disney's Tony Award®-winning new musical comedy, grossed $1,759,955.00, breaking the previous record of $1,614,428.00 set by the show for the week ending October 12, 2014. This marks the third time Aladdin has broken the New Amsterdam Theatre house record since opening on March 20, 2014. Disney's award-winning best musical, The Lion King, broke the house record for an eight performance week at the Minskoff Theatre with a gross of $2,422,718.50. This breaks the previous record of $2,365,402.00 set by The Lion King for the week ending December 1, 2013 and is the 19th house record set by the show for an eight performance week since it moved to the Minskoff Theatre in 2006.Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 11/30/2014.
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