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INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 7/8

By: Jul. 08, 2013
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Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights!

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MATILDA THE MUSICAL celebrated its 100th performance on Sunday, July 7, closing out another record-breaking week at the Shubert Theatre. The production broke a Shubert house record for the fourth week in a row, grossing $1,307,167 over eight performances for the week ending July 7, 2013.

Broadway's biggest box office hit of the year MOTOWN THE MUSICAL celebrated its best week ever with a weekly gross of $1,500,580, topping its own box office record at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre yet again. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL played eight performances last week in addition to traveling to Washington, D.C. in the middle of the week for the largest ever Broadway performance on the 33rd annual broadcast of "A Capitol Fourth" on PBS, celebrating the nation's Independence Day.

Also of note, LUCKY GUY grossed a whopping $661,829 in its final four performances. We'll miss you Tom Hanks!

Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 7/7/2013.


Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING $2,028,471
WICKED $1,893,488
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,684,525
KINKY BOOTS $1,611,599
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL $1,500,580
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES ($292,368), MACBETH ($292,722), THE NANCE ($360,241), ROCK OF AGES ($400,512), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL ($448,887)

Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK $108,426
MATILDA $85,121
KINKY BOOTS $83,338
THE LION KING $57,078
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL $52,795
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
LUCKY GUY ($-702,192), CINDERELLA ($-174,599), ONCE ($-105,674), WICKED ($-91,666), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE ($-70,439)

Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE BOOK OF MORMON $192.47
THE LION KING $149.12
KINKY BOOTS $140.38
LUCKY GUY $137.37
WICKED $134.39
Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES ($66.86), THE NANCE ($69.57), MACBETH ($71.85), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL ($81.03), CHICAGO ($85.92)

Top 5 by Gross % of Potential
LUCKY GUY 121.53%
THE BOOK OF MORMON 121.1%
WICKED 112.63%
KINKY BOOTS 110.05%
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL 105.89%
Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
MACBETH (38.64%), THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES (45.34%), THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (45.43%), THE NANCE (46.51%), ROCK OF AGES (64.44%)

Top 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
THE BOOK OF MORMON 102.6%
LUCKY GUY 101.9%
NEWSIES 101.5%
PIPPIN 101.1%
KINKY BOOTS 100.8%
Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (65.1%), MACBETH (65.2%), THE NANCE (70.7%), CINDERELLA (81.5%), SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK (83.1%)

Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
THE NANCE 692
SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK 310
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 248
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL 196
WICKED 156
Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
LUCKY GUY (-4786), CINDERELLA (-1301), ONCE (-455), VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (-174), MACBETH (-171)

That's all for this week... Other statistics that you'd like to see? Let us know!






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