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INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 9/16

By: Sep. 16, 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 9/15/2019.


This week, 29 shows played on Broadway, with 253,685 tickets sold and a total gross of $29,092,571. The average ticket price was $114.68.

This was up the number of shows as last week and the same vs. the same week last year. Compared to last week, attendance was up 13.05%. Versus last year, attendance was down -1.01%. On the sales front, overall grosses were up 12.04% vs. last week and up 1.11% vs. this week last year. This week's average ticket price of $114.68 is down $-1.03 compared to last week and up $2.41 compared to last year.


Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON $2,904,447
MOULIN ROUGE! $2,184,142
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD $1,964,200
THE LION KING $1,771,473
AIN'T TOO PROUD $1,512,149


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
Derren Brown: SECRET ($258,349), THE GREAT SOCIETY ($413,430), OKLAHOMA! ($440,186), CHICAGO ($689,306), SEA WALL/A LIFE ($719,375)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

THE GREAT SOCIETY $285,277
TOOTSIE $192,640
BETRAYAL $179,639
COME FROM AWAY $130,923
BEAUTIFUL $104,867


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
WAITRESS ($-13,405), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO ($-8,279), HAMILTON ($-6,735), FROZEN ($26,822), MEAN GIRLS ($30,888)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON $270.11
MOULIN ROUGE! $208.11
HADESTOWN $186.92
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD $168.92
THE LION KING $138.05


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
Derren Brown: SECRET ($38.42), THE GREAT SOCIETY ($69.65), FROZEN ($78.98), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ($80.51), BEETLEJUICE ($82.33)


Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

HADESTOWN 127.24%
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 120.49%
MOULIN ROUGE! 119.25%
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO 101.07%
HAMILTON 100.11%


Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
Derren Brown: SECRET (30.94%), THE GREAT SOCIETY (34.8%), OKLAHOMA! (59.01%), TOOTSIE (60.59%), MEAN GIRLS (64.31%)


Top 5 by % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

COME FROM AWAY 101.8%
HAMILTON 101.5%
HADESTOWN 101.4%
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 101.3%
THE BOOK OF MORMON 101.1%


Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
THE GREAT SOCIETY (70%), TOOTSIE (80.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (88%), FROZEN (89.7%), OKLAHOMA! (90.2%)


Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

THE GREAT SOCIETY 4197
Derren Brown: SECRET 3440
TOOTSIE 1426
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 1073
BEETLEJUICE 1069


Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
BETRAYAL (-87), HAMILTON (-1),

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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