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‘The Outsiders’, ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Set More House Records As Broadway Settles Into Summer
In all, receipts for the 30 Broadway productions totaled $34,783,390 last week.
With its July 7 closing date fast approaching, the revival grossed$2,321,807 for the week; The Outsiders, which won the Tony for Best Musical, set a house record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the second consecutive week, grossing$1,338,556; Hell’s Kitchen grossed$1,549,472, a drop of $251,416 due to the gifting by the production and TDF of 1,300 tickets to graduating high school seniors in NYC for the Wednesday evening performance; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club was down a tiny $3,749 to$1,810,907 as the production settled into the second week of its summer schedule: Stars Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin are playing seven performances a week, with alternates filling in for an eighth; Oh, Mary!, the new and much-anticipated Cole Escola comedy, began previews at the Lyceum, selling 96% of seats for the five performances and grossing$420,648; opening night is July 11; Also ending their runs were A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical, taking in$1,223,279, a bump of $94,727 from the previous week; and Mary Jane starring Rachel McAdams, slipping $7,081 to$324,007 for seven performances. Shows filling at least 90% of available seats were& Juliet,Aladdin, Appropriate, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Hadestown(100%), Hamilton(101%), Hell’s Kitchen(101%), Merrily We Roll Along(100%), Moulin Rouge!, Oh, Mary!, Six, Stereophonic(99%), Suffs, The Book of Mormon, The Great Gatsby, The Lion King, The Notebook, The Outsiders(102%), The Wiz and Wicked.
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