Industry NewsGrosses Analysis:Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away Deliver Strong Summer Box Office ReturnsTwo of this year’s original Broadway musicals continue to draw audiences, while a long-running smash hit surpassed a box office milestone.
Come From Away, the uplifting new musical about the bonds forged by a group of travelers stranded on 9/11, continues to draw audiences at the Schoenfeld Theatre. The ensemble musical broke its own box office record, earning $1,307,506 for the week ending July 30—topping last week’s benchmark of $1,286,300. The production played to 103.6 percent capacity.
Dear Evan Hansen, the 2017 Tony winner for Best Musical starring Ben Platt, had one of its strongest weeks to date, earning $1,709,346—just shy of its $1,725,297 box office record from July 9.
Paula Vogel’s drama Indecent, which is entering the final week of its Broadway extension, enjoyed its second-most lucrative week, bringing in $533,355. The production will shutter August 6.
The Book of Mormon, a consistent grosses front runner that has played to over 100 percent capacity for the past six-and-a-half years, hit a Broadway box office milestone earlier this month—surpassing $500 million in total gross ticket sales since performances began February 24, 2011, at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.