Broadway League To Resume Weekly Box Office Reports For Individual Shows

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The Broadway League announced today that it will resume its traditional, pre-pandemic practice of reporting weekly Broadway sales totals starting next week.The first box office report under the resumed policy will be released Tuesday, March 22.

The League also indicated that the weekly grosses of individual shows from earlier this season will also be made available.Since the start of the current Broadway season last September, the League, the trade organization representing theater owners and producers, had been releasing only the combined box office tallies for all shows.

The impact of the Covid pandemic on the production schedules and number of Broadway shows rendered season-by-season data comparisons difficult if not impossible, the League suggested.The policy reversal comes as Broadway is gearing up for a major and highly unusual influx of new shows.

As New York City endeavors to return to pre-pandemic normality, Broadway is preparing for the arrival of more than 16 new productions, all but two opening during the month of April (Plaza Suite opens March 28, POTUS May 9).In a statement today, Charlotte St.