‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Waves Goodbye To Broadway With Sell-Out Week; Broadway’s 24 Productions Gross $25M
deadline.comA slate of four new productions and renewed interest in a couple of old ones pushed Broadway box office up by 20% last week, with total receipts for the 24 shows reaching $24,954,517 and attendance climbing 14% to 201,321 for the week ending September 18.Among the newcomers: Death of a Salesman, 1776, Cost of Living and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt.
Waving goodbye was Dear Evan Hansen and announcing its upcoming departure was The Phantom of the Opera.First, Hansen. The musical closed September 18, selling out for its final week and grossing a big $1,251,593.
A run that began November 14, 2016, ended after having played 1,678 performances. It won the Tony for Best Musical.And while it was too soon to see much of the Phantom hubbub on the week’s chart — the musical announced its February 18 closing on Friday, bringing an imminent end to 35 years of music of the night — the production saw a noticeable uptick in receipts: $964,172, up $96,175 from the previous week.
Nearly 90% of the Majestic’s seats were filled, a figure that no doubt will increase as the end nears. The production reportedly sold about $2 million in advance sales in the 24 hours after the closing was announced.Also likely to see some upward momentum in coming weeks is Funny Girl, which dropped by about a half-million dollars with star Lea Michele out with Covid last week.
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