Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/29/23 — Page 3

ACL2006 said: "Continue to be impressed with these numbers in the dead of winter. Could it be lack of choices? We're down to just 22 Broadway shows now with nothing set to start previews for a few weeks."

Yeah I think a lot of it is to do with there just being fewer shows available to watch and fewer choices.

Because English is the commonly used language for a lot of business and entertainment, many more people will speak English as a second language and they will generally be better at it than an English person who took Spanish in highschool or something. The big English speaking Western countries - Australia, Canada, UK, and United States - all tend to be very dominated by English, whereas many other countries are a lot more multilingual by default. It's not a universal, but it is a well known trend.