New York’s July warmth wave is doing nothing to wilt the prospects of some current Broadway arrivals, with 4 spring-summer arrivals filling each seat at their respective venues final week: Oh, Mary!, The Outsiders, Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen had been sell-outs for the week ending July 14.
Long-runners Hadestown and Hamilton had been SRO, as typical, grossing $825,070 and $1,922,308, respectively.
Oh, Mary!, the Cole Escola comedy that opened July 11 to across-the-board raves, grossed $667,143; The Outsiders was at $1,390,233; Stereophonic grossed $983,845; and Hell’s Kitchen was at $1,687,326.
Closing quickly are:
- Home, the Roundabout’s well-reviewed Samm-Art Williams revival. Last week, a planned-seven efficiency week on the Todd Haimes grossed $133,600; closing July 21;
- The Who’s Tommy took in $772,892 on the Nederlander; closing July 21;
- Illinoise, which started an eight-performance schedule final week on the St. James, grossed $745,520; closing August 10;
- The Wiz grossed a magical $1,240,166 final week on the Marquis; closing August 18.
In all, the 26 Broadway productions grossed $29,845,592 for the week ending July 14, a drop of about 7% from the earlier week when there have been 27 reveals on the boards. Attendance final week was 242,578.
Season to this point, Broadway, within the eighth week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $275,939,686, up 8% over final 12 months at this time, with complete attendance of 2,192,768 up about 5%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full box office listings, go to the League’s website.
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