Fortunes raised on Broadway last week with cumulative grosses getting a modest 1% increase from the week prior. The 31 currently running shows brought in $34.7 million, up from last week's $34.3 million. Average ticket prices remained steady at $126.32, with 274,663 tickets sold. That still leaves this season to date up from the same period last season by nearly 8.5%.

A particular winner of the week was Manhattan Theatre Club's Bug, which, thanks to strong reviews and star performances from Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, saw a major bump at the box office after opening January 8. Much of that $255,972 increase is due to the show playing a normal, eight-performance week after playing just five the week before, but it still saw increases in excess of six figures compared to its earlier eight-performance weeks. The show's total take last week was $573,302, putting it near the bottom of Broadway's current crop—but as a small non-musical play, it's a pretty solid performance nonetheless.

At the other end of the list, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has emerged as Broadway's new consistent top grosser thanks to the ticket-buying bonanza that has accompanied the casting of Harry Potter film star Tom Felton, currently making his Broadway debut reprising his screen role as Draco Malfoy. The show brought in $2.65 million last week, nearly $500,000 more than even mega-hit and number-two grosser Hamilton. The show has been a success since it opened in 2018, but Felton has taken the show's earnings to another level. The show is in a great situation for times like this, playing the large capacity Lyric Theatre on Broadway. Now that average ticket prices have more than doubled from where they were as recently as November, the theatre's largesse has let it become a pretty powerful heavyweight at the box office, a story we've seen play out similarly at the also-large Gershwin as the two-part screen version of Wicked has reinvigorated audiences for the Broadway original.

Wicked, by the way, ranked third in last week's top five, just barely missing The $2 Million Club. Mamma Mia! and Stranger Things: The First Shadow (which has also been seeing renewed interest and rising grosses thanks to the recent release of the Netflix series' fifth and final season) rounded out the top five.

Broadway Week, a program that makes two-for-one tickets available for the majority of Broadway titles during the Main Stem's historically slowest season, began January 20, so we can look forward to seeing the effects of that with next week's grosses data.

Take a look at the full report here.

The $1 Million Club (shows that earned $1 million or more at the box office):

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ($2.65 million)
• Hamilton ($2.19 million)
• Wicked
• Mamma Mia!
  
• Stranger Things: The First Shadow
• Chess
• The Lion King
• MJ The Musical
• Ragtime
• Death Becomes Her
• Maybe Happy Ending
• Oh, Mary!
• The Outsiders
• Aladdin
• The Great Gatsby
• Hadestown

(16 of 31 currently running productions)

The 90s Club (shows that played to 90% or higher of their seats filled over the entire week):

• Hamilton (101.03%)
• Hadestown (100.44%)
• Wicked (100%)
• Mamma Mia!
  
• Ragtime
• Oh, Mary!
  
• Stranger Things: The First Shadow
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Operation Mincemeat
• Maybe Happy Ending
• Bug
• Marjorie Prime
• The Outsiders
• Buena Vista Social Club
• The Lion King
• Moulin Rouge! The Musical
• MJ The Musical
• Chess
• Just in Time
• Death Becomes Her
• Aladdin

(21 of 31 currently running productions)