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With increase in shows, Broadway box office sees greater disparity

As more productions get underway with the start of the fall season, Broadway’s box office continues to experience an increasing disparity between the most well-attended and least-attended shows. For the week ending Oct. 2, Broadway grossed $25,208,583 and played to 87% capacity. These figures are...

Faye Castelow as Gretl and Colleen Litchfield as Hanna in "Leopoldstadt" (Photo: Joan Marcus)

As more productions get underway with the start of the fall season, Broadway’s box office continues to experience an increasing disparity between the most well-attended and least-attended shows.

For the week ending Oct. 2, Broadway grossed $25,208,583 and played to 87% capacity. These figures are down 4% and 5%, respectively.

The three top-grossing productions were “The Music Man,” “Hamilton” and “MJ.”

Notably, only two shows performed to 100% capacity last week, including “Come From Away” and “MJ.” There were eight productions that played to 80% capacity or less, including “A Strange Loop,” “Beetlejuice,” “Chicago,” “Death of a Salesman,” “Into the Woods,” “The Kite Runner,” “The Piano Lesson” and “Topdog/Underdog.”

A handful of productions experienced double-digit decreases in gross last week, including “Chicago” (down 15%), “Hadestown” (down 14%), “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” (down 14%), “Into the Woods” (down 12%) and “Wicked” (down 11%).

In its final week on Broadway, “Come From Away” earned $1,046,553, up 11%, and played to nearly 102% capacity, up 1%. The musical gave its final performance on Oct. 2.

On the heels of a strong week after its closing notice was posted, “Beetlejuice” plummeted at the box office. The musical grossed $797,880, down 25%, and played to 61% capacity, down 34%.

“The Phantom of the Opera,” meanwhile, saw another strong week following the announcement that it, too, will close. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-scored musical earned $1,331,023, up 10%, and played to 98%, down 2%.

Six productions were in previews last week, including “1776,” “Cost of Living,” “Death of a Salesman,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Topdog/Underdog” and “Leopoldstadt,” the latter of which played seven preview performances and opened on Oct. 2.