Overview
- For the week ending Jan. 11, Broadway’s 31 shows sold 272,911 tickets with an average price of $125.76, as grosses fell 34% week over week.
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child topped the chart at $2.65 million, followed by Hamilton ($2.18 million), Wicked ($2.07 million), Mamma Mia! ($1.78 million) and The Lion King ($1.71 million).
- Bug opened Jan. 8 at the Friedman Theatre and posted $317,330 after an opening-night comp and two canceled previews drove a roughly $129,000 week-to-week decline.
- Liberation logged a run-best $639,035 as capacity rose to 86% from 65%, with the play set to end its engagement on Feb. 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
- The production count dipped to 31 after Beetlejuice and Waiting for Godot closed, while sellouts included Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which grossed about $1.66 million on lower ticket prices.