Broadway Box Office: Week 3: 06.04 - 06.10.12

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Broadway Box OfficeWeek #2 of the 2012 - 2013 SeasonJune 3 - 10; 35 Productions

The week leading up to the Tonys was very good to a few eventual winners: showing growth, were Newsies, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, and Venus in Fur posted modest gains, but the biggest winners were Other Desert Cities and Peter and the Starcatcher which went up 9 slots each.  But the Tony-less shows did even better on average - Gore Vidal's The Best Man (up 2), Jesus Christ Superstar (up 3), and the snubbed powerhouse Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (up 3) continued to give its proverbial finger to the Broadway establishment, posting the biggest box office gain of the week (+$246,695).  It's a shame Venus in Fur and its Tony-winning star Nina Arianda have only a week more to be the "Hot Ticket" again - it was up a whopping 17.8%  in attendance this second week of the new season.  Not all of the news is good, either.  Godspell continues to bleed patrons, dropping 5.7%, which is significant in the small house Circle-in-the-Square, which explains yesterday's closing announcement.  The Lyons also struggles, but is now selling tickets until September 2, so maybe there is a light ahead in this very funny tunnel.  The new season's lone new show, Harvey continues to do well, attendance-wise, though its take at the box office dipped a bit.

Week 3 of the new season will end with the closing of Venus in Fur, Don't Dress for Dinner and Other Desert Cities.  It will be interesting to see - in the coming weeks - how much the Tonys  will effect the box office, especially considering that only one acting award went to a star people outside the theatre community will know (the very deserving Judith Light, whose show closes Sunday.  Will Clybourne Park draw bigger audiences?  Will Tony-winners Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath be enough to keep Nice Work If You Can Get It going through the summer?  Will anyone be able to get a ticket to Once?  Or will Spider-Man keep drawing the masses into its enormous web?  I can't wait to find out!

RANK THIS WEEK	SHOW TITLE	SHOW TYPE	THEATRE	RANK LAST WEEK	UP/ DOWN
1	The Book of Mormon	Musical	Eugene O'Neill	1	Same
2 tie	Disney's The Lion King	Musical	Minskoff	3	+1
2 tie	Wicked	Musical	Gershwin	4	+2
4	Disney's Newsies: The Musical	Musical	Nederlander	5	+1
5	Evita	Musical Revival	Marquis	7	+2
6	Once	Musical	Bernard B. Jacobs	6	Same
7	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Musical	Foxwoods	10	+3
8	Jersey Boys	Musical	August Wilson	8	Same
9	Rock of Ages	Musical	Helen Hayes	9	Same
10	Gore Vidal's The Best Man	Play Revival	Gerald Schoenfeld	12	+2
11	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Musical	Imperial	11	Same
12	One Man, Two Guvnors	Play	Music Box	16	+4
13	Peter and the Starcatcher	Play	Brooks Atkinson	22	+9
14	War Horse	Play	Vivian Beaumont	15	+1
15	Harvey	Play Revival	Studio 54	13	-2
16 tie	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	Majestic	13	-3
16 tie	Mamma Mia	Musical	Winter Garden	16	Same
18 tie	Chicago	Musical Revival	Ambassador	18	Same
18 tie	Venus in Fur	Play	Lyceum	23	+5
20	Disney's Mary Poppins	Musical	New Amsterdam	19	-1
21	Other Desert Cities	Play	Booth	30	+9
22	Clybourne Park	Play	Walter Kerr	20	-2
23 tie	The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess	Musical Revival	Richard Rodgers	24	+1
23 tie	Anything Goes	Musical Revival	Stephen Sondheim	24	+1
25	The Columnist	Play	Samuel J. Friedman	21	-4
26 tie	Ghost: The Musical	Musical	Lunt-Fontanne	26	Same
26 tie	Memphis	Musical	Shubert	28	+2
28 tie	End of the Rainbow	Play	Belasco	27	-1
28 tie	Jesus Christ Superstar	Musical Revival	Neil Simon	31	+3
30	Sister Act	Musical	Broadway	29	-1
31	Priscilla Queen of the Desert	Musical	Palace	31	+1
32	Don't Dress for Dinner	Play	American Airlines	32	Same
33 tie	A Streetcar Named Desire	Play	Broadhurst	33	Same
33 tie	The Lyons	Play	Cort	36	+2
35	Godspell	Musical Reviva	Circle-in-the-Square	35	-1

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman closed June 2, 2012

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