Lea Michele in “Funny Girl” on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre on September 6, 2022 in New York City. Bruce Glikas/ WireImage
Leading approximately the financially rewarding vacation weeks, the Lea Michele– led Funny Girl damaged a ticket office document at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway
The rebirth generated simply over $2 million throughout 8 programs recently, which likewise noted a document gross for the manufacturing. Michele signed up with the rebirth in September, complying with the separation of Beanie Feldstein, in a relocation attended aid enhance grosses for the then-struggling program.
Since Michele signed up with the manufacturing onSept 6, Funny Girl has actually seen that increase, with the music taking in greater than $1.6 million a week, and also lately closer to $2 million, after extra moderate returns in the springtime and also a decrease to much less than $1 million over the summertime.
Mean Girls, which played the August Wilson Theatre from March 2018 up until the staged closure, formerly established your home document at the theater in 2018 with a gross of $1.99 million.
The current ticket office document was established as Funny Girl played to a capability of 96 percent and also regulated a typical ticket cost of $213.28, the 2nd greatest of all programs for the week. Only The Music Man had a greater typical ticket cost, at $267.99, which assisted the program proceed its power as the highest-grossing program of the week, generating $3.25 million.
Ain’ t No Mo‘ was one more remarkable standout in the week finishedDec 18, as the brand-new play saw its grosses triple to get to $499,303 from $164,592 the previous week and also play to a capability of 93 percent. The rise came as maker Jordan E. Cooper salaried a project to quit the program from closing and also obtained aid along the road from Will Smith and also Jada Pinkett Smith, Tyler Perry, Shonda Rhimes, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Queen Latifah and also Sara Ramirez, every one of whom got efficiencies. The program has actually currently expanded viaDec 23 after at first being informed it would certainly shut onDec 18.
Grosses stay high for the common leading entertainers on Broadway, with The Lion King generating $2.4 million, Wicked generating $2.2 million and also Hamilton generating $2.3 million. Phantom remains to see raised passion, after prolonging its closure to April after a run of 35 years.
But numerous Broadway beginners remain to battle, with manufacturings such as Topdog/Underdog, a Pulitzer Prize- winning play starring Corey Hawkins and also Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, earning $257,217 recently and also playing to a capability of 52 percent, which has actually been the fad for a number of weeks. Almost Famous, which simply introduced aJan 8 closing, played to a capability of 68 percent and also made $703,714, down around $61,000 from the previous week.
These grosses are still a welcome respite from last December, when a rise in omicron instances amongst actors and also firm participants created the termination of lots of efficiencies throughout the sector and also caused the long-term closure of some programs. Coming up, the weeks around Christmas and also New Years Eve usually generate the most significant grosses manufacturings see all period.
This post was initially released by The Hollywood Reporter.
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