The Book of Mormon Broadway Musical Lead the list with grosses $1,641,717 and had an attendance rate of 102.3%, about 0.3% less than that of the previous week. Wicked ($1,403,247) and The Lion King ($1,293,167) and are in the list next to Book of Mormon. The 26 shows on the boards grossed $16,714,699, slipping around 14.40% from the previous week’s totals.
Super Bowl week turned into mostly a super bust for Broadway. Data from The Broadway League shows box office grosses declined $2.4 million and ticket buyers fell by more than 15,000 for the week ending Sunday.
Below are the Top 15 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending February 02, 2014.
1. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,641,717
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,403,247
3. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,293,167
4. Kinky Boots – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $1,173,857
5. Motown: The Musical – (LUNT-FONTANNE) $978,954
6. Matilda – (SHUBERT) $969,639
7. Twelfth Night/Richard III – (BELASCO) $907,006
8. Beautiful – (STEPHEN SONDHEIM) $745,443
9. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $622,287
10. Pippin – (MUSIC BOX) $614,740
11. After Midnight – (BROOKS ATKINSON) $584,044
12. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $568,494
13. Once – (JACOBS) $552,672
14. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $538,710
15. No Man’s Land/Waiting For Godot – (CORT) $536,711
{Via BroadwayWorld.com}
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