With the insanely busy Broadway spring season nearing peak manufacturing – just one musical, Lifeless Outlaw, has but to start previews – most reveals felt the warmth of competitors final week, with 29 of the 39 productions reporting slips in field workplace grosses from the earlier week.
Even so, many of the productions, notably the newer arrivals, have been having fun with the rising tide nonetheless, with Simply In Time starring Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin promoting out Circle within the Sq. and hitting a candy excessive notice of $901,973 for its first seven previews. Take that, all you Dream Lover naysayers. Who’s Bobby Darin, certainly. He’s Jonathan Groff, that’s who. The musical formally opens April 26.
Let’s check out another current spring arrivals.
- Glengarry Glen Ross, the well-received Mamet revival starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Invoice Burr, took a dip however stayed robust total with a $1,789,575 soak up its first full week of post-opening performances on the Palace, standing room solely.;
- Good Night time, and Good Luck, the George Clooney historic drama that opened on the Winter Backyard to mixed-to-favorable opinions final week, proved its imperviousness to critics by doing standing room enterprise and scoring the second-highest gross of the week: $3,135,536 and the second-most costly common ticket value of $250.68. The one present that outdid it on each counts was Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal ($3,179,908 and $382.94);
- Promising certainly is Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, filling 96% of seats on the 1,596-seat Marquis and grossing $676,923 with simply 4 previews. Opening night time is April 22;
- In all probability too quickly to foretell hit and miss for Boop! and Smash, with the previous taking in $398,040 for six previews and one common performances, and the latter at a more healthy $892,618 however nonetheless across the 89% capability mark. Opening night time for Smash is April 10;
- The Final 5 Years, starring Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas opened on the Hudson to blended opinions however good crowds: 97% of seats have been crammed, and the gross was $714,000;
- Stephen Sondheim’s Previous Associates, in previews on the Friedman and starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in a revue of the grasp’s works, crammed 99% of seats and grossed $523,082 for seven reveals;
- John Proctor Is The Villain, starring Sadie Sink in a revisionist Crucible, bought out the Sales space, with its eight previews grossing $370,701;
- Pirates! The Penzance Musical, the non-prof Roundabout Theatre Firm’s manufacturing of Rupert Holmes’ new adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan traditional starring Ramin Karimloo, Jinkx Monsoon, David Hyde Pierce and Nicholas Barasch, bought out its first 4 previews on the Haimes, grossing $222,957. Opening night time is April 24;
- Floyd Collins, in previews at Lincoln Heart’s Beaumont, took in $509,731 for seven previews (opening April 21) and Actual Girls Have Curves: The Musical started previews on the James Earl Jones, grossing $371,495. Opening April 27.
In all, Broadway’s 39 productions grossed $42,361,129 for the week ending April 6, a slip of three% from the earlier week and up 7% over final 12 months presently. Final week’s attendance was 322,960 up 4% over the earlier week and 6% over final season.
About 91% of all out there Broadway seats have been crammed, with an total common ticket value of $131.17.
Season to this point, Broadway, within the forty sixth week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $1,572,470,958, up about 19% over final 12 months presently, with whole attendance of 12,280,963 up 17%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace go to statistic the League’s web site.
