Broadway Ticket Sales Dip As The Summer Winds Down, The Lion King, Wicked, And The Book Of Mormon Remain Top Earners, Kinky Boots Inches Closer, Securing Fourth Place With $1.6M


Broadway Ticket Sales Drop

Kinky Boots

With many New York City locals away on vacation, and perhaps too many tourists already heading home to get a start on their back-to-school shopping, Broadway saw a decline in revenue this past week. Sales, which were previously at $23,335,894, fell by nearly one and a half million dollars, coming in at a total of $21,839,390 this week.

Kinky Boots Closing in on the Book of Mormon

Predictably, from week to week, the top three Broadway money makers are The Lion King, Wicked, and The Book of Mormon, with the first two alternating in the #1 and #2 spot (The Lion King took it this week, as it has for most of the summer) and The Book of Mormon almost always taking the #3 place. But a new Top 3 contender may be emerging with Kinky Boots, the Tony Award-winning hit that has been selling out. While The Book of Mormon still earned third place with $1,741,615, Kinky Boots came in at a very close fourth with $1,649,031.

The Following are the Broadway Ticket Sales Numbers from the Week Ending August 18, 2013:

Broadway Show Ticket Sales Analysis
Show NameGrossGrossTotalAttn
%Cap
AvgPdAdm
ANNIE
$806,640
9,975
73.00%
$80.87
CHICAGO
$678,773
8,253
95.52%
$82.25
CINDERELLA
$980,547
10,216
72.93%
$95.98
FIRST DATE
$424,227
6,881
80.46%
$61.65
FOREVER TANGO
$282,884
4,806
64.74%
$58.86
JERSEY BOYS
$812,903
8,733
88.89%
$93.08
KINKY BOOTS
$1,649,031
11,480
100.77%
$143.64
LET IT BE
$316,572
5,329
39.58%
$59.41
MAMMA MIA!
$953,280
10,487
87.51%
$90.90
MATILDA
$1,329,084
11,542
100.75%
$115.15
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL
$1,437,843
11,980
99.37%
$120.02
NEWSIES
$904,461
9,316
98.27%
$97.09
ONCE
$708,350
7,682
90.68%
$92.21
PIPPIN
$1,023,367
7,921
100.01%
$129.20
ROCK OF AGES
$384,217
4,185
89.73%
$91.81
SOUL DOCTOR
$200,673
4,958
88.28%
$40.47
SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK
$1,025,358
10,612
78.55%
$96.62
THE BOOK OF MORMON
$1,741,615
8,752
102.63%
$199.00
THE LION KING
$2,112,788
13,511
99.35%
$156.38
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
$1,167,085
12,479
97.19%
$93.52
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
$473,711
5,717
67.23%
$82.86
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
$554,932
5,337
84.77%
$103.98
WICKED
$1,871,050
13,880
95.91%
$134.80
Totals:
$21,839,390
190,152
86.79%
$100.86

Broadway ticket sales raw data are provided courtesy of The Broadway League All other data, text, opinion, charts and commentary are copyright © 2012 nytix.com