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Broadway Box Office Tweets - Week Ending August 15, 2010

Broadway Box Office Tweets - Week Ending August 15, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that each Monday, I offer my quick analysis of each preceding week's box office on Broadway.

For your viewing pleasure, here are my tweets in chronological order for the week ending August 15, 2010:

8:20 pm August 16 - WICKED, LION KING, ADDAMS FAMILY, MARY POPPINS, BILLY ELLIOT PROMISES PROMISES, JERSEY BOYS each gross $1 million+ each

8:21 pm August 16 - #1, Sold-out WICKED grosses $1,733,834 on Broadway last week. Average ticket price: $119.81

8:22 pm August 16 - #2 Sold-out LION KING has Broadway's top average ticket price: $122.44.Grosses $1,643,356

8:23 pm August 16 - Broadway's highest capacities were enjoyed by WICKED and THE LION KING last week at 100% each

8:24 pm August 16 - Broadway's lowest grossing/lowest capacity show: RACE grossing $230,318 on 42.3% capacity. Average ticket price: $64.33

8:25 pm August 16 - NEXT TO NORMAL had week's lowest average ticket price on Broadway: $58.99. Grosses $278,266 on 76.4% capacity

3:55 pm August 16 - SOUTH PACIFIC enjoyed week's largest capacity increase of 10.4% to 96.8% for final weeks with Kelli O'Hara & Pauo Szot

8:27 pm August 16 - MAMMA MIA had most capacity decline last week of 5% to 86.5% Still grossing $923,650

8:28 pm August 16 - Broadway shows grossing under $500,000 include: RACE, NEXT TO NORMAL, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, LEND ME A TENOR, FELA!

8:29 pm August 16 - Overall Broadway gross was down just 1.8% to $19,217,416 week over week.

8:30 pm August 16 - Broadway capacity was down just .63% to 82.3% filling 214,889 of 258,568 available seats

8:31 pm August 16 - The average ticket price on Broadway last week was $85.89


Feel free to comment and let me know if you're surprised by any of these results.

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Labels: average ticket price, Box Office, Broadway, Broadway Box Office, Capacity

posted by Steve On Broadway (SOB) @ Monday, August 16, 2010