‘Funny Girl’ Breaks Domestic Record With $2M; ‘The Piano Lesson’ Is No. 1 Non-Musical Play – Broadway Box Office

Funny girl broke a house record with more than $2 million at the August Wilson Theatre, A beautiful sound continued its weekly earnings of over $1 million, and The piano lesson topped the list of top-grossing non-musical productions with $914,752, each contributing to the $37 million Broadway box office for the week ending December 18.

Heading into the holiday season, Broadway even managed to get one less show on the list (KPOP was gone). The 34 shows totaled $37,287,623 with an attendance of 275,724 at an 86% load factor.

at the wilson, funny girl, with (of course) Lea Michele, earned $2,005,696, easily beating the house record of $1,994,386 mean girls back in 2018. With a rise of 96% capacity, Funny girl had an average ticket price of $213.28, second only to the music man$267.99 (for a gross of $3,249,366 at the Conservatory).

Some other notable numbers: almost known which ran a shutdown ad on January 8 after struggling to find its audience, grossed $703,714 while taking just 68% of the seats at Jacobs. There may be post-closing news among last-minute buyers next week, but an extension does not appear to be in sight.

is not a mother, playwright Jordan E. Cooper’s critically acclaimed Broadway debut, has received much-needed financial backing from celebrities such as Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, Tyler Perry, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, Shonda Rhimes and Sara Ramirez, and has US$499,303 – dollars earned. week and filled 93% of the seats at the Belasco. The buyouts and support earned the show a one-week extension — so far — to Dec. 23, but the low average ticket price of $65.89 suggests the production still needs support from the ticket-buying public.

Among other recent Broadway additions, & Julia Post Healthy Numbers, which grossed $1,071,157 and occupied 92% of the seats at the Stephen Sondheim Theater; A Christmas song $823,057 made with 84% of the Dutchman’s seats filled; and In the forest Breaks the $1 million mark at St. James. Some love it when it’s hot Raised $802,341 with a 73% turnout.

Murders in the State of Ohio, starring Audra McDonald, grossed $282,787 and occupied just 44% of the seats at the James Earl Jones. The second coming of get me out played at Schoenfeld in a similar capacity, earning $335,943 with 46% of the seats filled.

For the season so far, Broadway has grossed $878,883,669 with a total attendance of 6,892,295 at about 87% capacity.

The 34 productions that reported on Broadway last week were & Juliet, 1776, A Christmas Carol, Ain’t No Mo’, Aladdin, Almost Famous, A Beautiful Noise, Beetlejuice, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Book of Mormon, Chicago, The Collaboration, Death of a Salesman, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Into the Woods, Kimberly Akimbo, Leopoldstadt, The Lion King, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool, The Music Man, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Ohio State Murders, The Phantom van de Opera, The Piano Lesson, Six, A Strange Loop, Some Like It, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog and Weak.

All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. Visit the league’s website for complete ticket listings.