Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby has set a Broadway report for weekly ticket gross sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending Sunday. It was one in all a number of excessive marks achieved for Important Stem exhibits in 2023’s closing field workplace body.
The Harry Potter gross handed the excessive mark initially set the week ending January 1, 2023 ($2,671,191). It’s also a home report for the play’s dwelling the Lyric Theatre.
The Tony-winning play has bought greater than 10 million tickets worldwide since its July 2016 premiere and is Broadway’s most profitable non-musical play with greater than $330 million in complete gross sales. A North American tour is ready to launch in September 2024 in Chicago.
Over on the Ambassador Theatre, Broadway’s longest-running musical Chicago grossed weekly gross sales of $1,452,008.50, beating final 12 months’s closing week’s $1,299,4004.24. Producers mentioned gross ticket gross sales for the nine-performance week ending December 31 have been the biggest within the present’s historical past; that span included the December 28 present, which grossed $173,415.75, topping one of the best single-show mark achieved a couple of evenings earlier on Christmas.
Additionally setting present information the week ending December 31: the musical Six, which grossed $1,659,004.00 and performed to a mean capability of 100.74% on the Lena Horne Theatre, producers mentioned.
The vacation numbers are excellent news for the business total. Whereas exhibits akin to Merrily We Roll Alongside, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King, Depraved, I Want That and newcomer Acceptable crammed seats throughout the week ending December 17, complete field workplace receipts have been down about 16% 12 months over 12 months in that body. A part of the explanations: there have been 26 productions on the boards this December, in comparison with 34 in December 2022.
Ultimate stats will come later this week.
