Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/1/24 - WICKED, ELF & More Top the List

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/1/2024 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

Of note this week: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS closed on 11/30. CULT OF LOVE is in previews at the Hayes and opens on 12/12. EUREKA DAY began previews at the Friedman and opens on 12/16. GYPSY is in previews at the Majestic and opens on 12/19. SIX had a nine-performance week. THE ROOMMATE had a (planned) six-performance week. Thanksgiving fell within this week. This was the best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week on Broadway in recorded history. WICKED has topped the grosses list since late September. 

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHICAGO (35.4%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (18.3%), & JULIET (9.6%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (9.5%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (9.3%), THE NOTEBOOK (8.8%), THE GREAT GATSBY (8.8%), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (7.3%), HADESTOWN (6.6%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (5.1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (4.8%), SIX (4.8%), STEREOPHONIC (4.7%), HELL'S KITCHEN (3.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (2.4%), ROMEO + JULIET (1.6%), SUFFS (1.6%), HAMILTON (1.5%), THE OUTSIDERS (1%), ALADDIN (0.6%), MJ THE MUSICAL (0.3%), ELF (0.3%), LEFT ON TENTH (0.2%), THE LION KING (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SWEPT AWAY (-10.8%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (-9.8%), GYPSY (-7.5%), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (-6.7%), OUR TOWN (-3.8%), SUNSET BLVD. (-2.2%), TAMMY FAYE (-2.2%), CULT OF LOVE (-0.7%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-0.7%), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (-0.5%), THE ROOMMATE (-0.2%),

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This week, 38 shows played on Broadway, with 312,143 tickets sold and a total gross of $46,046,759. The average ticket price was $147.52.

This was less than the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was up 1.53%. On the sales front, overall grosses were up 23.29% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $147.52 is up $26.03 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
WICKED: $2,930,221
THE LION KING: $2,883,276
HAMILTON: $2,579,544
ELF: $1,947,922
THE OUTSIDERS: $1,840,606


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
CULT OF LOVE ($231,664), TAMMY FAYE ($259,515), THE ROOMMATE ($304,180), LEFT ON TENTH ($324,236), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA ($339,876)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
THE LION KING: $876,805
GYPSY: $852,303
ELF: $808,388
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: $688,931
ALADDIN: $623,770


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
LEFT ON TENTH ($-132,086), THE ROOMMATE ($-101,006), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL ($-81,286), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA ($-67,889), TAMMY FAYE ($-58,398)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
HAMILTON: $247.25
THE LION KING: $221.18
THE OUTSIDERS: $220.09
WICKED: $190.18
ROMEO + JULIET: $186.54


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA ($60.99), TAMMY FAYE ($64.65), CULT OF LOVE ($68.48), LEFT ON TENTH ($73.82), SWEPT AWAY ($83.12)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
ROMEO + JULIET: 102.6%
THE OUTSIDERS: 102.1%
OH, MARY!: 100%
WICKED: 100%
STEREOPHONIC: 98.9%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
TAMMY FAYE (38.4%), LEFT ON TENTH (51.5%), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (56.2%), THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (59.3%), SWEPT AWAY (60.9%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
GYPSY: 5579
CHICAGO: 3060
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: 2159
SIX: 1311
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: 1225


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
THE ROOMMATE (-1168), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (-1086), SWEPT AWAY (-883), A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (-529), OUR TOWN (-320)

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