Elf the Musical, which returned to Broadway final month for a restricted run, grossed $2,230,419 throughout eight performances for the week ending December 22, breaking the home file on the Marquis Theatre to spotlight the pre-holiday field workplace body.
The revival, which stars Mean Girls Tony nominee Grey Hanson as Buddy the Elf and Sean Astin as Santa, beat its earlier week’s gross of $2,033,784 and grew to 98% capability on the large Marquis. The present was fourth general in field workplace for the week behind solely the standard suspects Wicked (a frame-leading $3,024,095 on the Gershwin), The Lion King ($2,897,476 on the Minskoff) and Hamilton ($2,491,550 on the Richard Rodgers), all of which additionally noticed week-over-week good points.
Based on the now-holiday staple 2023 film starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jon Favreau, Elf the Musical first opened on Broadway through the 2010-2011 season with a ebook by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin, with songs by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin. It returned to New York for a 2012-2013 vacation run with a revised ebook. It had record-breaking vacation runs within the West End in 2022 and 2023.
For the body, Elf surpassed the earlier Marquis file held by Beetlejuice, which grossed $2,146,200 million the week ending January 8, 2023. Elf is ready to run by means of January 5.
Other notable field workplace quantity for the thirty first week of the 2024-2025 Broadway season included a powerful first full week for All In: Comedy About Love, based mostly on the brief tales by Simon Rich, which added two reveals in contrast with final week’s 5 on the Hudson Theatre and grossed $1,327,148. Overall, All In was certainly one of 10 reveals to promote out for the body, joined by Chicago, Hadestown, Hamilton, Oh, Mary!, Romeo & Juliet, Stereophonic, Suffs, The Outsiders and Wicked.
Gypsy, with Audra McDonald as Mama Rose below the path of George C. Wolfe, noticed $1,567,014 throughout three previews and 5 performances, down from the earlier week’s eight previews ($1,818,235).
Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day on the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre grossed $234,510 and has already prolonged its run two weeks to undergo February 2.
In all, the 34 Broadway productions on the boards final week (The Hills of California closed on Sunday) grossed $44,466,554, with attendance at 302,828, each figures greater than 32% higher than final yr presently. Average ticket value was $146.84, $1.19 larger than final yr.
Season so far, Broadway has grossed $1,036,648,946, up greater than 15% over final yr presently, with whole attendance of 8,274,472 additionally up about 15%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace listings, go to the League’s web site.