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INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 8/19

By: Aug. 19, 2019
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Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 8/18/2019.


This week, 28 shows played on Broadway, with 258,918 tickets sold and a total gross of $31,972,753. The average ticket price was $123.49.

This was less than the number of shows as last week and down 2 vs. the same week last year. Compared to last week, attendance was down -4.22%. Versus last year, attendance was down -2.17%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -5.43% vs. last week and down -9.85% vs. this week last year. This week's average ticket price of $123.49 is down $-1.58 compared to last week and down $-10.51 compared to last year.


Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON $2,966,602
THE LION KING $2,313,779
MOULIN ROUGE! $2,099,833
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD $1,900,310
WICKED $1,598,241


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
OKLAHOMA! ($476,328), WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME ($560,689), BEAUTIFUL ($564,642), WAITRESS ($579,304), CHICAGO ($600,124)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

THE CHER SHOW $196,188
KING KONG $120,477
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL $49,424
BEAUTIFUL $48,369
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME $41,345


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
ALADDIN ($-183,776), WICKED ($-168,296), THE LION KING ($-145,369), FROZEN ($-118,267), MEAN GIRLS ($-82,682)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON $275.89
MOULIN ROUGE! $200.29
HADESTOWN $179.61
THE LION KING $173.08
Barry Manilow $165.39


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
KING KONG ($75.35), CHICAGO ($83.02), BEAUTIFUL ($85.01), BEETLEJUICE ($87.25), WAITRESS ($87.60)


Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

HADESTOWN 122.24%
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 121.36%
MOULIN ROUGE! 114.65%
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO 103.66%
HAMILTON 102.26%


Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
TOOTSIE (50.59%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (50.63%), BEAUTIFUL (56.76%), WAITRESS (56.82%), KING KONG (57.72%)


Top 5 by % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

HAMILTON 101.8%
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 101.6%
COME FROM AWAY 101.6%
DEAR EVAN HANSEN 101.5%
HADESTOWN 101.4%


Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
TOOTSIE (73.5%), WAITRESS (79.1%), KING KONG (80.8%), BEAUTIFUL (80.9%), PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (81.3%)


Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

THE CHER SHOW 1381
KING KONG 949
BEAUTIFUL 617
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL 498
TOOTSIE 480


Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
WICKED (-1164), ALADDIN (-740), SEA WALL/A LIFE (-508), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-374), FROZEN (-271)

That's all for this week... Note: All data presented for informational purposes only. BroadwayWorld.com makes No Guarantees as to the accuracy of the data, or the matter in which it's presented. Source: The Broadway League..









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