Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/31/23

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/31/2023 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: 

I NEED THAT and SOME LIKE IT HOT closed on 12/30. PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC is in previews at the Friedman and opens on 1/9. One of the six scheduled previews for this week was cancelled (Thurs. 12/28). Please note that multiple shows held 9 performances this week. Christmas Day fell within this week (Week 32); last season it fell within the week prior (Week 31). New Year's Eve fell within this week; it also fell within this week (Week 32) last season. Last season, Week 32 also included New Year's Day; this season, New Year's Day will fall within Week 33.                                                                                   

Chicago grossed weekly ticket sales of $1,452,008.50, beating last year’s final week’s (January 1, 2013) gross of $1,299,4004.24. The gross ticket sales for the 9-performance week were the largest in the history of Chicago. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a new Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending December 31, 2023. This gross passes the high mark set by the play for the week ending January 1, 2023 ($2,671,191). MJ broke the house record at the Neil Simon Theatre for the 11th time. The production broke its previous weekly record of $2,223,069 with a gross of $2,613,841 for the week ending December 30, 2023. SIX set a new box office record on Broadway at the Lena Horne Theatre for the week ending December 30, 2023. The musical grossed $1,659,004.00 and played to an average capacity of 100.74%. The previous record (set January 1, 2023) was $1,649,206.00. & JULIET beat its own box office record the a 9-performance week, grossing $1,784,051 for the week ending 12/31/23. Gutenberg! The Musical! set the box office record at the James Earl Jones Theatre grossing $1,280,597 for the week ending, Sunday, December 31, 2023.

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (22.4%), HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO (20.6%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (17.8%), SPAMALOT (15.5%), HARMONY (13.7%), SHUCKED (11.9%), APPROPRIATE (10.5%), SOME LIKE IT HOT (9.9%), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (7%), GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! (6.6%), CHICAGO (6.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (4.6%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (4.1%), THE LION KING (3.5%), PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (3.3%), SIX (3.1%), BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (2.1%), & JULIET (1.9%), ALADDIN (1.9%), MJ THE MUSICAL (1.8%), HADESTOWN (1.6%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (1.3%), I NEED THAT (0.6%), HAMILTON (0.4%), WICKED (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-0.3%),

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This week, 27 shows played on Broadway, with 256,751 tickets sold and a total gross of $45,413,789. The average ticket price was $176.88.

This was the same as the number of shows as last week. Compared to last week, attendance was up 13.52%. On the sales front, overall grosses were up 35.65% vs. last week. This week's average ticket price of $176.88 is up $28.85 compared to last week.

Top 5 by This Week Gross
THE LION KING: $4,316,629
WICKED: $4,003,233
ALADDIN: $2,979,728
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: $2,718,488
MJ THE MUSICAL: $2,613,841


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC ($264,770), HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO ($536,440), HARMONY ($555,200), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH ($601,535), KIMBERLY AKIMBO ($720,330)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
WICKED: $1,477,267
THE LION KING: $1,212,358
ALADDIN: $1,048,345
MJ THE MUSICAL: $735,600
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: $681,285


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC ($30,148), I NEED THAT ($70,404), HAMILTON ($88,018), MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG ($129,378), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH ($135,816)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE LION KING: $286.61
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: $258.20
WICKED: $231.01
HAMILTON: $223.72
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: $216.04


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO ($81.13), HARMONY ($86.49), PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC ($93.99), PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH ($112.39), SHUCKED ($112.82)


Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
THE BOOK OF MORMON: 102%
HAMILTON: 101.5%
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL: 101.5%
HADESTOWN: 101.2%
CHICAGO: 101.1%


Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH (59.4%), HARMONY (69.4%), A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (78.8%), HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO (83.6%), PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (88.4%)


Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL: 3253
CHICAGO: 2666
HARMONY: 2409
SIX: 2292
THE LION KING: 2151


Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (-32),

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..