Cats notwithstanding, Broadway headed into the summer dog days with a dip in box office, as ticket sales for Week 10 (ending July 31) slipped about 4% from the previous week to $25M. The total gross reflects two fewer productions than the previous week, with total attendance for the 27 shows at 241,220.
The two absent…
The new Cats held strong in its second week of Broadway previews, grossing $853,633 and keeping the Street’s total grosses for Week 9 (ending July 24) from wilting more than a couple percentage points in the summer heat. Total ticket sales for the 29 Broadway productions was $26,582,154, a tiny 2% slip from the…
Broadway’s box office climbed a bit with the summer temperatures during Week 8 (ending July 17) of the 2016-17 season, with gross ticket sales for 30 shows hitting $27,125,138, up from last week’s $25M for 29 productions. Helping the Street claw its way upward was the Shubert/Nederlander revival of Cats, playing four…
Making good on a promise that seemed unlikely at the time, the producers of the Berry Gordy biotuner Motown The Musical said Monday that the musical will return to Broadway next summer for an 18-week run that will begin in July at the Nederlander Theatre.
A surprise hit of the 2013-2014 season, the show ran at the…
