INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 12/29; Record-Breaking Week for Broadway!

Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 12/28/2014.

The Illusionists Witness the Impossible has broken the house record at the Marquis Theatre. The Illusionists set a new record this week grossing $1,811,228.46. The previous record was set by White Christmas (week ending 12/21/08) with a gross of $1,588,859.00.

The producers of the new Broadway production of The Elephant Man, starring have announced that the show officially recouped its $3.1 million capitalization costs after 6.5 weeks of performances (following the week ending December 21). The production has once again broken the box office record grossing $1,058,547.08 for the week ending December 28, also becoming the first show ever to play the Booth Theatre and gross over $1 million in a single week. The Elephant Man is now playing a limited engagement through Sunday, February 22, 2015.

The 2014 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, has also broken the Walter Kerr Theatre's house record for highest single-week gross, taking in $1,062,740.60 over eight (8) performances during the week ending December 28, 2014. (The previous record was set by A Little Night Music, starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury, with $1,031,543 over eight performances, for the week ending January 3, 2010.) This also marks the production's first entry into Broadway's 'Million Dollar Club' .

Both Aladdin and The Lion King broke the nine performance week house records at their respective theatres, The New Amsterdam Theatre and The Minskoff Theatre, for the week ending December 28, 2014. Both productions are among the top five highest-grossing Broadway shows of 2014. Aladdin, Disney's Tony Award®-winning new musical comedy, grossed $1,986,322.00. This marks the fourth time Aladdin has broken a New Amsterdam Theatre house record since opening on March 20, 2014. Despite beginning performances eight weeks into the year, Aladdin finishes 2014 as the fifth highest-grossing show of the year, and the only show of the 2013-14 season to make the top five. Disney's award-winning best musical, The Lion King, broke the house record for a nine performance week at the Minskoff Theatre with a gross of $2,885,321.48. For the second time in a row, the flagship New York production heads the list of Broadway's highest-grossing shows of the year.