Mighty ‘The Wiz’ Skips Away With Hefty $2M In Weekly Ticket Sales – Broadway Box Office
deadline.comBroadway seemed to take a breath last week before as it eyes the fall season, with box office for the second full week of August dipping about 9% from the previous week.
In all, the 25 shows grossed $28,132,262 for the week ending August 18. Though down from the previous week, when Illinoise was still on the chart and grossed a big $1,167,159 in its final week.
Even with the slightly slimmer roster, the attendance figure for last week was a full 9% greater than the same week last season.
All but five of the 25 productions on the roster reported box office drops, the five trend-buckers being the ever-popular Moulin Rouge! (up $4,485 to $1,220,778), the summer’s hot tickets Oh, Mary! (up $12,699 to $1,056,794, a Lyceum house record) and Cabaret (up $16,523 to $1,520,726), the steady-marching Suffs up $6,523 to $713,408), and, with the biggest increase in receipts, The Wiz, closing its hugely popular limited run with a jump of $261,849 to $1,945,288.
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