Industry NewsGrosses Analysis: Adam Driver and Keri Russell-Led Burn This Ends HotMost shows took a hit in the week ending July 14 due to the New York City blackout July 13.
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Ryan McPhee
July 15, 2019
Brandon Uranowitz, Keri Russell, Adam Driver, and David Furr
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With the July 13 power outage causing many Broadway shows to cancel their Saturday evening performance (typically the most profitable show of the week), the boards saw a considerable dip in grosses for the week ending July 14.
A handful of shows—all, coincidentally, starting with B (Beetlejuice, Beautiful, et al)—kept their lights on. Among them was Burn This, which also ended its limited engagement July 14. The production, starring Tony nominee Adam Driver and Keri Russell in her Broadway debut, took in $897,621 for its final eight performances at the Hudson Theatre (87.78 percent of its potential), marking its third highest weekly gross during its run.
Meanwhile, a big celebration was to be had at Broadway’s smallest theatre, as What the Constitution Means to Me fully recouped its $2.5 million capitalization. The Tony-nominated play, running through August 24 at the Hayes Theater, achieved the threshold at 99.31 percent capacity for the week, grossing 87.46 percent of its potential with $454,059.
Despite being down a performance, 12 shows grossed over $1 million, with Hamilton and The Lion King both surpassing $2 million (the latter still playing eight performances, instead of its planned nine).
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The 2018-2019 Broadway Season in Photos
The 2018-2019 Broadway Season in Photos
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The season opens with a revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids celebrates its annual striptease fundraiser with Broadway Bares: Game Night.
Evan Zimmerman
Bandstand costars Laura Osnes and Corey Cott reunite for a Rodgers and Hammerstein performance at Playbill's Sing for Hope piano.
Young Jean Lee becomes the first female Asian-American playwright to be produced on Broadway with Straight White Men
Peppermint makes history as the first open trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway in Head Over Heels
Bette Midler returns to Hello, Dolly!, concluding the run of the hit revival August 25, 2018.
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Jennifer Ashley Tepper debuts The Jonathan Larson Project at Feinstein's/54 Below.
Philip Romano
Joel Grey is all smiles backstage at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids' Red Bucket Follies, with the theatre community raising $6,113,301—the highest fall fundraising total in the organization’s 30-year history.
Michael Kushner
Carole King, Chilina Kennedy, and the company of Beautiful: the Carole King Musical celebrate five years on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
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Hillary Clinton continues her support of Broadway.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids celebrates the 2019 Easter Bonnet Competition, with the theatre community raising $6,594,778.
Shoshana Bean
Marc J. Franklin
Ali Stroker and James Davis
Little Fang Photo
Playbill Travel brought Broadway to France during the Broadway on the Rhône River 2 cruise.
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Disney's Aladdin celebrated five years on Broadway.
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The cast of [title of show] reunited for the Actors Fund benefit concert.
The 2018–2019 season concluded with the opening night of Beetlejuice at the Winter Garden Theatre.
