This Week On Broadway Ticket Sales See A Half Million Jump In Revenue, Soul Doctor Gains An Audience, But Unfortunately At Low Prices, The Lion King And Wicked Top The $2 Million Mark


Broadway Ticket Sales Up this Week

Soul Doctor Broadway Show

We're into the dead of summer now, and Broadway shows keep packing in the audiences. This week saw a half million jump in sales, with total ticket revenue going from the previous week's $23,614,761 up to $24,169,058.

Soul Doctor Has Good Attendance, But at Low Prices

The new Broadway musical Soul Doctor, in its second week on the charts and still in previews, is showing impressive attendance for a brand new musical. The show was at 85.70% capacity last week, and up to 89.23% this week. However, the people in the seats don't appear to be paying much for their tickets, with the latest average paid admission at a paltry $34.87 per ticket.

Two Broadway Tuners Top Two Million

Eight Broadway shows made it past the million mark this week, but two actually climbed past two million. Naturally it was the duo that are usually at the top of the charts, The Lion King (the top earner, at $2,155,758) and Wicked ($2,088,425).

The Following are the Broadway Ticket Sales Numbers from the Week Ending July 28, 2013:

Broadway Show Ticket Sales Analysis
Show NameGrossGrossTotalAttn
%Cap
AvgPdAdm
ANNIE
$968,295
11,612
84.98%
$83.39
CHICAGO
$723,859
8,752
101.30%
$82.71
CINDERELLA
$1,110,515
11,713
83.62%
$94.81
FIRST DATE
$443,723
7,685
89.86%
$57.74
FOREVER TANGO
$483,889
5,959
80.27%
$81.20
JERSEY BOYS
$892,625
9,214
93.79%
$96.88
KINKY BOOTS
$1,612,845
11,480
100.77%
$140.49
LET IT BE
$369,391
7,962
59.14%
$46.39
MAMMA MIA!
$965,481
10,870
90.70%
$88.82
MATILDA
$1,280,729
11,542
100.75%
$110.96
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL
$1,483,470
12,132
100.63%
$122.28
NEWSIES
$953,590
9,548
100.72%
$99.87
ONCE
$790,372
8,133
96.00%
$97.18
PIPPIN
$1,079,397
8,022
101.29%
$134.55
ROCK OF AGES
$425,397
4,482
96.10%
$94.91
SOUL DOCTOR
$152,026
4,360
89.23%
$34.87
SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK
$1,395,940
14,072
91.14%
$99.20
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES
$361,826
4,820
92.69%
$75.07
THE BOOK OF MORMON
$1,738,664
8,752
102.63%
$198.66
THE LION KING
$2,155,758
13,605
100.04%
$158.45
THE NANCE
$363,658
4,974
67.88%
$73.11
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
$1,173,574
12,775
99.49%
$91.86
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
$449,395
5,771
67.86%
$77.87
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
$706,215
6,069
96.39%
$116.36
WICKED
$2,088,425
15,664
96.21%
$133.33
Totals:
$24,169,058
229,968
91.34%
$99.64

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