Elf the Musical, which returned to Broadway last month for a limited run, grossed $2,230,419 across eight performances for the week ending December 22, breaking the house record at the Marquis Theatre to highlight the pre-holiday box office frame. The revival, which stars Mean Girls Tony nominee Grey…

The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All In: Comedy About Love, based on the short stories of writer Simon Rich, read live by such performers as, initially…

Broadway settled back down to some post-Thanksgiving normalcy last week, dropping about 9% to $42,021,721 from the holiday high of the previous week. Attendance held strong at 309,802 for the week ending December 8. Wicked was, once again, the roster’s top earner, grossing $2,782,795 and besting both…

UPDATE, with full report: Broadway had its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $46,046,759, a huge increase over last year’s turkey holiday take of $34,512,033. Attendance…

Gypsy, the much-anticipated musical revival starring Audra McDonald, was at standing room only during its first week of previews at the Majestic Theatre, grossing $770,349 for only three performances. At that rate, the production is sure to rank among the top grossing shows on Broadway in the coming…

Sunset Blvd. had its best box office numbers yet last week, while Maybe Happy Ending showed some welcome improvement and both Elf and A Wonderful World opened to houses with 90% of seats filled. The pre-holiday news wasn’t quite so cheery for all of Broadway though, as no fewer than 26 of the 37…

Broadway’s hit musical revival Sunset Blvd. stayed strong last week amidst the controversy surrounding star Nicole Scherzinger’s social media post interpreted (or rather misinterpreted) by many as an endorsement of Donald Trump. The latest Broadway grosses (for the week ending November 10) indicate…

Death Becomes Her, the new musical adaptation of the 1992 comedy fantasy film, worked up some Broadway magic in its second week since beginning performances at the Lunt-Fontanne, grossing an impressive $1,073,018 for seven previews and filling 98% of the venue’s seats. The musical, starring Megan…

The strong (well, some of them) got stronger on Broadway last week even as the overall box office trended slightly downward, with 28 productions on the 36-show roster reporting receipt dips. In all, the 36 shows grossed $33,921,069 for the week ending October 27, about 2 percent lower than the…

Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet added some major heft to Broadway’s autumn box office last week, with the ecstatically reviewed Blvd. grossing $1,211,699 even with press comps during its opening week, and R+J, selling out its eight previews at Circle in the Square, taking $1,056,775. R+J, starring…

Broadway newcomers Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet, both in previews, topped the $1M mark in weekly grosses last week, while interesting things were happening over at Wicked: The long-running musical had its best week, by far, of the 2024-25 season, hitting nearly $2.5M. The Wicked figure is a leap…

Sunset Blvd., Jamie Lloyd’s revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, topped the $1 million mark in weekly grosses last week, filling the St. James Theatre for all six previews and joining the ranks of McNeal and Romeo + Juliet as Broadway’s most recent…