Columbus holiday sales lift Broadway

The conventional Broadway sales boost which will come throughout Columbus Day weekend seems to own overcome whatever B.O. hindrance Yom Kippur may have provided Week 19 (March. 3-9), with receipts growing at virtually every show round the boards. Travelers around for your extended weekend aided keep amounts elevated, especially at "The Lion King" ($1,660,023), which leaped by nearly $250,000 to land just before "Wicked" ($1,656,867) at the top of B.O. heap. "Spider-Guy: Turn Off the Dark" ($1,464,858), "How you can achieve Business Without Really Trying" ($986,336) and "Mary Poppins" ($813,941) also were among the shows to climb by roughly $100,000 or maybe more, striking play "War Equine" ($998,448) came within spitting distance of damaging the $millions of mark. Otherwise over the Rialto, there has been a couple of relatively minor dips -- then one really large one. "Follies" ($886,027) slid by close to $250,000, marking a 22% decline versus. the final sesh. Reps for your show noted of the question for reduced tickets from email and direct mail offers expired, and producers expect grosses to create again inside the future. The Broadway cume was up about $850,000 to $19.6 000 0000 for your 22 shows round the boards. This can be a rise inside the prior sesh of nearly 4.5%, in contrast, attendance wound up having a percentage indicate 205,123. The conflicting signals might be because of the holiday weekend, when out-of-towners with small amount of time can be ready to spend out more gold gold coin for ducats for the shows they wish to see. Attendance across all Broadway hit 86% of total capacity, almost exactly on componen with a year ago at this time around around.The 18 musicals made $17,218,323 for 88% in the Broadway total, with attendance of 177,081 at 85.3% capacity plus an average paid out admission of $97.23.Some plays made $2,371,278 for 12% in the Broadway total, with attendance of 28,042 at 96.1% capacity plus an average paid out admission of $84.56. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com