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Broadway Box Office Tweets - Week Ending January 16, 2011

If you follow me on Twitter, you most likely know that each Monday, I offer my quick analysis of each preceding week's box office on the Great White Way. Last week's results were delayed until today because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday.

Some people live for the latest sports stats. I love poring over each week's box office totals on Broadway. So, for your viewing pleasure, here are my tweets in chronological order for the week ending January 16, 2011:

1:00 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Broadway box office plunges 11.2% last week to just $14,896,892 in grosses

1:01 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Broadway capacity down 5.72% last week to 79.36% or 170,093 seats sold out of 214,092 possible

1:02 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Broadway's average ticket price last week was down slightly to $84.61 from $85.17 week before

1:03 p.m. January 18, 2011 - At 100.1% capacity SPIDER-MAN was only sold-out Broadway show last week. Gross: $1,258,330. Avg ticket price: $108.57

1:04 p.m. January 18, 2011 - WICKED back on top as Broadway's #1 show, grossing $1,540,868 on 98.3% capacity. Average ticket price: $108.30

1:05 p.m. January 18, 2011 - THE LION KING only other Broadway show to gross over $1million last week: $1,334,354 on 83.6% capacity

1:07 p.m. January 18, 2011 - THE LION KING had Broadway's highest average ticket price last week: $118.99

1:08 p.m. January 18, 2011 - COLIN QUINN LONG STORY SHORT had Broadway's lowest gross last week: $187,617 on 69.6% capacity. Avg tix priced $57.3

1:10 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Broadway's lowest capacity: TIME STANDS STILL at 59.4%. Gross: $363,619. Average ticket price: $70.89

1:11 p.m. January 18, 2011 - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST had week's lowest average ticket price: $50.43. Gross: $282,607 on 94.7% capacity

1:12 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Shows below 70% capacity: TIME STANDS STILL, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, AMERICAN IDIOT & COLIN QUINN LONG STORY SHORT

1:13 p.m. January 18, 2011 - MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET still grossing $456,566 on 62.8% capacity. Average ticket price at $74.85

1:14 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Only Broadway shows to increase capacity last week: IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, LOMBARDI and SPIDER-MAN

1:15 p.m. January 18, 2011 - IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST posted week's top capacity increase of 5.3% to 94.7%

1:16 p.m. January 18, 2011 - RAIN posts week's largest capacity decline of 24.3% to 71.2%. Grosses $681,640. Average ticket price is $82.64

1:20 p.m. January 18, 2011 - Finally, NEXT TO NORMAL closes with gross of $552,653 on 96.4% capacity. $92.82 average ticket price

So, dear readers, do any of these results surprise you? Do you have any other observations about last week's box office totals? If so, feel free to comment below.