By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on February 15, 2017 10:56 PM
This past week, two new shows began previews: Sunday in the park with George and the glass menagerie, and Sunset boulevard entered its second week of previews.
“The Glass Menagerie” and “Sunday in the Park with George” Begin Previews


“Sunset Boulevard” Breaks Through the Million Dollar Mark

In its second week of previews, the Glenn Close-led revival of Sunset Boulevard is hitting its stride. This past week, the musical had a week of seven performances, up from the first partial week of five performances, but still has not reached the routine of running eight-performance weeks. Nevertheless, with just seven performances this past week, Sunset Boulevard brought in $1,142,254, which represents 66.92% of its gross potential. With a top ticket price of $297.00, the average paid admission was $111.73, and the audience was filled up to an average capacity of 87.0%, up from 82.4% the previous week. While there is still a ways to go before reaching its gross potential, this revival was a crucial component of the collective Broadway industry’s ability to remain on par with its performance the previous week. Of the 23 shows running this past week, which is two more than the week before, Broadway still brought in $64,628 less than the week before. While almost a negligible difference, the fact that two additional shows failed to lead to any increase in total box office gross is a sign that some of the long-running shows are flailing. Most notably, Hamilton, which had a stupendous increase in ticket sales the previous week, is back down to only an outrageously enormous gross this past week (as opposed to an absolutely stupefying weekly gross). This past week, Hamilton brought in $311,204 less than the week before, which brought it to a weekly gross of $2,903,693, or 110.3% of its gross potential.