‘Almost Famous’, ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Prove Popular With Strong Attendance; ‘Leopoldstadt’ Tops $1M – Broadway Box Office
18.10.2022 - 23:23
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Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ and Leopoldstadt set house records and The Phantom of the Opera was once again standing room only as the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical heads toward its Feb. 18 closing.
Total attendance for the 27 Broadway shows was 225,731 for the week ending Oct. 16, a barely perceptible increase of 1.5% over the previous week.
Among the most recent arrivals, Almost Famous, the musical adaptation of the 2000 film in previews ahead of a Nov. 13 opening, scored big, grossing $606,780 and filling 94% of seats at the Jacobs. The musical Kimberly Akimbo, opening Nov. 10 at the Booth, was at 91% of capacity, grossing $300,433 for six previews.
KPOP, the new production about the South Korean musical genre phenomenon, took in $191,119 for four performances, at 83.81% of capacity at Circle in the Square. Opening night is Nov. 20. The Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog, opening Thursday, grossed $220,016, at about 86% of capacity at the Golden.
The Piano Lesson, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks, opened at the Barrymore on Oct. 13, and had a good week, at the box office anyway – Brooks had to miss some performances due to Covid. The August Wilson revival took in $697,282.
At the Neil Simon Theatre, MJ broke another house record, selling out and grossing $1,777,138. Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt set a house record at the Longacre with a take of $1,095,529, becoming the first new play of the season to top $1m in weekly grosses.
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