Broadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster. Attendance for the week ending Jan. 23 was 152,135, a slip of 6% from the previous week.
The reduced roster – the previous week had 25 productions on the boards – did seem to help at least some per-show attendances: In all, total attendance was at 75% of Broadway capacity, a noticeable jump from the previous week's 66%.
The figures also reflect the reduced prices of the twice-annual Broadway Week promotion (actually, nearly a month this year, ending Feb. 13), with two-for-one tickets available at many shows.
Despite a modest $108 average ticket price, many potential theater-goers apparently remained reluctant to venture out during New York's still-concerning – if significantly receding – Omicron wave. No Broadway production last week saw any canceled performances last week due to illness.
Still, four productions were gone from the roster, including To Kill a Mockingbird ( on hiatus until June 1) and the closed Flying Over Sunset, Ain't Too Proud and Clyde's . Next week's roster will be thinner still, with the departures of Girl From The North Country (eyeing a potential spring return) and Slave Play.
Season to date, Broadway has grossed $404,048,064, with total attendance of 3,227,888 at about 80% of capacity.
The Broadway League is not releasing box office numbers for individual shows this season, in a break with tradition, so the exact impact of audience declines on each particular production is unverifiable.
Productions reporting performances on Broadway during the week ending Jan. 23 were Aladdin; The Book of Mormon; Chicago; Come From Away; Company; David Byrne's American Utopia; Dear Evan Hansen; Girl From the North Country; Hadestown; Hamilton; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; The Lion King; MJ; Moulin Rouge! The Musical!; The Music Man; The Phantom of the Opera; Six; Skeleton Crew; Slave Play; Tina; and Wicked.
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