Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, brought in $4,003,481.50 on Broadway last week, becoming the first play to surpass $4 million in a single week.
The play also broke its own record, yet again, as the highest grossing play in Broadway history. The milestone came as the production, which is playing the Winter Garden Theater, received five Tony Award nominations, including one for Clooney.
The average ticket price for the production also keeps inching up each week, reaching $319.36 last week, but still below the $367.42 commanded at Othello, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, which still had the highest average ticket price in the industry, despite being snubbed by the Tony Awards. The production still brought in just over $3 million, as the second highest grossing show in the industry last week, and continued to play to 100 percent capacity.
Glengarry Glen Ross was the third highest grossing show last week, at $2.3 million, followed by Wicked with $2.2 million and The Lion King with $1.9 million.
Though May 1 was Tony nominations day, drawing in big hauls for Maybe Happy Ending, Buena Vista Social Club and Death Becomes Her, many shows still saw their grosses fall last week as the industry contended with the end of Spring Break season. Since the nominations took place on a Thursday, productions also have not seen a full week of impact.
Maybe Happy Ending, starring Darren Criss, was one of few shows to see an increase in grosses last week, bumping up about $10,000 from the prior week, to $903,408 and increasing capacity to 97 percent. Buena Vista Social Club saw its grosses jump close to $33,000 to reach $1.07 million and capacity increase to 95 percent. Just In Time, starring Jonathan Groff, saw the biggest jump, with grosses up $213,494 from the prior week to reach $1.1 million. However, the jump in grosses came in the week after opening, as the production had its first full week of regular performances which likely included fewer comped tickets.
Overall, industry grosses were down 8 percent from last week and attendance was down 3.5 percent. Grosses for this season to date are up 19.8 percent compared to last year.
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