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Tonys Work Their Magic On Broadway With Box Office Bounding For ‘Enemy Of The People’, ‘Merrily We Roll Along’, ‘Stereophonic’, ‘The Outsiders’
Deadline's Broadway box office report for week ending June 23, 2024.
A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year’s winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big increases in attendance and receipts. An Enemy of the People, which starred the Tony-winning Jeremy Strong, broke its own house record at Circle in the Square, taking in$1,545,913 for its final week of performances, an increase of $279,575 over the previous week; Best Musical Revival winner Merrily We Roll Along, starring Tony winners Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe (and nominee Lindsay Mendez) was up $329,797 last week, grossing$2,173,254 and setting a Hudson Theatre box office record for the eighth time; the show closes Sunday, July 7; Best Play Stereophonic, with a mostly unknown (or previously unknown at any rate) cast that includes Tony winner Will Brill, was a sell-out, jumping $218,535 to$1,018,115. Word is the David Adjmi play about a ’70s rock band recording their masterpiece album has an advance among the strongest currently on Broadway; Best Musical The Outsiders, another sell-out, jumped $283,453 to$1,307,257; Illinoise, the Sufjan Stevens dance-musical directed by Tony-winning choreographer Justin Peck, was up $88,688 to$847,502 in the wake of its well-received performance on the Tonys; Hell’s Kitchen posted a $112,926 increase to$1,800,888; Suffs grossed an excellent$942,785, up $89,895 over the previous week; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which showcased itself on the Tonys with a polarizing performance by Eddie Redmayne, bucked the upward trend by dropping $68,914.
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