INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 12/3

By: Dec. 03, 2018
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Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 12/2/2018.


This week, 38 shows played on Broadway, with 299,411 tickets sold and a total gross of $37,805,785. The average ticket price was $126.27.

This was up the number of shows as last week and up 7 vs. the same week last year. Compared to last week, attendance was up 0.06%. Versus last year, attendance was up 13.01%. On the sales front, overall grosses were down -12.17% vs. last week and down -3.26% vs. this week last year. This week's average ticket price of $126.27 is down $-17.58 compared to last week and down $-21.23 compared to last year.


Top 5 by This Week Gross

HAMILTON $2,947,169
THE LION KING $2,198,618
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO $2,024,213
WICKED $1,874,882
FROZEN $1,850,445


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
HEAD OVER HEELS ($160,863), TORCH SONG ($220,459), THE NEW ONE ($247,549), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ($283,366), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND ($361,135)


Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross

BEAUTIFUL $133,096
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL $100,498
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD $75,994
AMERICAN SON $58,970
SUMMER $48,823


Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
HAMILTON ($-861,130), SCHOOL OF ROCK ($-622,687), WICKED ($-603,097), THE LION KING ($-577,610), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ($-550,986)


Top 5 by Average Ticket Price

HAMILTON $274.54
DEAR EVAN HANSEN $183.45
THE LION KING $162.06
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO $156.00
MY FAIR LADY $146.01


Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
THE NEW ONE ($54.17), HEAD OVER HEELS ($60.61), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG ($62.50), TORCH SONG ($72.50), THE PROM ($83.81)


Top 5 by Gross % of Potential

HAMILTON 112.03%
WICKED 105.34%
DEAR EVAN HANSEN 103.64%
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO 101.8%
NETWORK 100.73%


Bottom 5 by Gross % of Potential
HEAD OVER HEELS (18.21%), THE NEW ONE (25.19%), TORCH SONG (33.98%), SUMMER (35.14%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (41.81%)


Top 5 by % of Seats Sold of Total Seats

THE BOOK OF MORMON 102.9%
HAMILTON 101.6%
COME FROM AWAY 101.6%
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 100.6%
NETWORK 100.2%


Bottom 5 % of Seats Sold of Total Seats
HEAD OVER HEELS (34.4%), SUMMER (48.6%), THE NEW ONE (53.2%), TORCH SONG (65.0%), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (66.4%)


Top 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week

THE ILLUSIONISTS - MAGIC OF THE HOLIDAYS 2646
THE CHER SHOW 2148
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1440
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL 998
BEAUTIFUL 861


Bottom 5 by Seats Sold This Week vs. Last Week
SCHOOL OF ROCK (-4130), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-2096), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (-1293), TORCH SONG (-1280), CHICAGO (-1035)

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





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