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Broadway‘s spring newcomers continued pulling in the city’s tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new shows filling at least 90% of their seats.
Topping the newcomers was Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee (full title of the revival: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club), fill all seats at the August Wilson Theatre and grossing $1,731,227 for seven previews. Opening night is April 21.
Second highest earner of the previewing or just-opened shows was The Wiz, grossing $1,288,057 for seven performances at the Marquis, with attendance at 93% of capacity. Opening night is April 17.
Two productions had their opening weeks: The Outsiders, selling out the Jacobs and grossing $787,966; and Lempicka, which opened Sunday night following days of heavily comped press previews, with attendance at 94% of capacity at the Longacre and grosses a modest $344,080.
Some other notable showings among the new productions:
In all, the 36 Broadway shows took in $35,535,214 for the week ending April 14, a dip of about 10% from the previous week. Total attendance was 292,028, down just 4% and still at about 91% of total Broadway capacity.
Season to date, Broadway has grossed $1,360,158,089, with total attendance at 10,811,417.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For complete box office listings, visit the League’s website.
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