Broadway box office sagged a bit last week, possibly as the previous week’s Easter vacationers and spring-breakers returned home and a crowded, 40-show production slate with lots of newcomers competed with one another for attention. The winners among the recent arrivals, at least in terms of…

Broadway held strong last week as a bevy of spring arrivals caught ticket buyers’ attention, with Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman and Titaníque opening to strong reviews and full or nearly full houses. Most of the nine shows still in previews last week also did well…

Broadway’s busy season was packed with recent arrivals last week, most pulling in decent-sized audiences (more than decent in many cases), with shows like Dog Day Afternoon, Proof, Schmigadoon! and The Rocky Horror Show selling out or nearly so. Other newcomers filling 90% of their seats or more…

Broadway gave a warm welcome to a batch of spring arrivals last week, with newcomers The Lost Boys, The Rocky Horror Show, Beaches, Fallen Angels and Titaníque beginning previews to more-than-solid audiences. And while sell-out (or nearly so) crowds said hello to the newcomers, fans of…

Broadway’s recent spring arrivals enjoyed robust box office last week, with Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Dog Day Afternoon selling out and Giant, Becky Shaw, Death of a Salesman and The Fear of 13 coming within a hair’s breadth. Some of the newcomers even joined or settled into the…

Broadway’s Chicago, with Whitney Leavitt starring as Roxie Hart, continued its record-setting box office streak last week, with the musical revival grossing $1,457,931, the highest gross in the show’s 29-year history. Since Leavitt’s arrival in February, Chicago has scored $8,049,526, making the…

Broadway dug itself out of the winter doldrums last week, with productions resuming their full, no-snow-days schedules and total box office and attendance rebounding 8% over the previous week to $28,123,874 and 238,988, respectively. In all, attendance for the 28 shows was at 91% of capacity, up…

New York City’s winter weather took another bite out of Broadway business last week, with canceled performances and blizzard-averse potential audiences sending receipts for the 27 productions plummeting 17% from the previous week. With Monday evening performances canceled and piles of snow…

Call New York City’s recent weather what you want – bomb cyclone, blizzard, or plain old snowstorm – but it definitely chilled Broadway’s box office over the weekend. Receipts for the week ending Sunday February 22 were down 6% from the previous week, settling at $31,554,841 – and that’s with a…

UPDATED, 6:28 AM: The Broadway company of Chicago has extended Whitney Leavitt’s ticket-selling run as Roxie Hart for an additional two weeks after audiences have been flocking to the long-running revival and its new Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star. Although Leavitt, who also competed on…

With a slightly thinned-out roster and a deep-freeze blast of NYC winter weather, Broadway did a decent job of holding its own last week, the 29 productions (down from 31 the previous week) pulling in a total gross of $30,170,014. That’s about 5% shy of the previous week’s take when Mamma Mia! and Lib…

Broadway said its goodbyes to Mamma Mia! and Liberation Sunday, with both productions getting a boost at the box office last week from last chancers scooping up tickets before the February 1 closings. The revival of Mamma Mia! took in a big $1,821,528 for its final week, a bump of $392,259 over…