Overview
- For the week ending December 28, 33 productions sold 304,997 tickets and grossed $54,251,856, with an average paid admission of $177.88.
- Overall grosses rose 14.36% from the prior week while total attendance slipped 3.95%, reflecting higher prices during the Christmas stretch.
- Wicked led with $4.401 million across nine sold-out performances, followed by The Lion King at $3.916 million, Hamilton at $3.768 million, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at $3.710 million.
- Multiple house records fell: Harry Potter set a new Lyric Theatre mark with $3,709,875, Ragtime posted a Beaumont record at $1,588,107, and Just in Time logged Circle in the Square’s best week.
- Six major titles—Aladdin, Harry Potter, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Great Gatsby, The Lion King, and Wicked—scheduled nine performances during the holiday week that included Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.