Posted: 1/31/22 at 3:36pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/theater/broadway-hamilton-wicked-lion-king.html
"During the long dark months when the coronavirus pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold in parts of the industry: Once theaters reopened, the audience would include more New Yorkers and fewer tourists, and the result could be a more receptive marketplace for ambitious new plays. It did not turn out that way."
For the week ending 12/12/21, right before Omicron:
--These shows were all in the $1MM+ club:
“Hamilton," “Wicked,” “The Lion King,” “Moulin Rouge!”, “Tina,” “Six,” “Aladdin,” “The Book of Mormon,” “Hadestown” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Lehman Trilogy.”
--Harry Potter averaged $1.7MM/week in early December
--Diana - grossed $374k at 51% capacity
--Girl From the North Country - grossed $310k, at 47% capacity
--Flying Over Sunset - grossed $323k, at 69% capacity
--Jagged Little Pill - grossed $768k
For Thanksgiving Week:
--Hamilton - $3+MM, average price was $297
--Lion King - $2+MM
--Wicked - $2+MM
--Harry Potter - $2+MM
--Mouline Rouge - $1.5MM
--Chicken and Biscuits - average price was $35
Fall in general:
--Pass Over, Is This a Room, & Dana H - all played to 33% - 50% capacity through their runs.
--Thoughts of a Colored Man - sometimes broke $400K/week
--Jagged Little Pill was averaging 80% capacity late in the fall.
