NEW YORK — It was banquet or scarcity at the Broadway box workplace as 2022 injury down, with eye-popping profits for popular reveals — consistingof a incredible brand-new Broadway record for “The Lion King” — not lifting all strugglers.
Twenty-one of the 33 reveals offered broke the $1 million mark for the week ending Sunday, and “The Lion King” made history with the greatest haul ever — an amazing $4,315,264 over 9 efficiencies for a 25-year-old program with no stars. It took the crown from “Hamilton, the veryfirst Broadway program to fracture $4 million, which it did with 8 efficiencies at the end of 2018.
“The Music Man” was close behind with 2 high-wattage stars in Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman — $3,971,531 over 9 reveals — followed by “Wicked” with $3,152,679. The leading typical ticket rate went to “The Music Man” with $285.80, simply about a dollar more than “The Lion King.”
All reveals bar one — “A Christmas Carol” — saw their numbers grow over the week ending Sunday. However, the typical bump was hardly obvious for “Topdog/Underdog,” with simply $345,567 over 8 reveals, and “Ohio State Murders” pulling in simply $311,893 to a half-empty theater over 9 efficiencies regardlessof the existence of six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald. A revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning dark funny “Between Riverside a