Broadway box office bumps up

The conventional Broadway sales boost which will come throughout Columbus Day weekend seems to own overcome whatever B.O. hindrance Yom Kippur may have provided the other day, with receipts growing at virtually every show round the boards. Travelers around for your extended weekend aided keep amounts elevated, especially at "The Lion King" ($1,660,023), which leaped by nearly $250,000 to land just before "Wicked" ($1,656,867) within the tippy-the top of Top. "Spider-Guy: Turn Off the Dark" ($1,464,858), "How you can achieve Business Without Really Trying" ($986,336) and "Mary Poppins" ($813,941) also were among the shows to climb by greater than $100,000 each, striking play "War Equine" ($998,448) came within spitting distance of damaging the $millions of mark. Otherwise over the Rialto, there has been a couple of relatively minor dips -- then one really large one. "Follies" ($886,027) slid by close to $250,000, marking a 22% decline versus. the final sesh. Reps for your show noted your window for reduced tickets from email and direct mail offers expired the other day, and producers expect grosses to create again inside the future. Among the other declines, both "The Mountaintop" ($530,317) and "Guy and Boy" ($194,119) were accommodating comps throughout press previews, with "Guy and Boy" also hosting a heavily-comped opening evening in the last weekend. Meanwhile, "Priscilla Full in the Desert" ($753,600) and previewing play "Relatively Speaking" ($648,394) were both lower, but only slightly. Broadway cume was up about $850,000 to $19.6 000 0000 for 22 shows round the boards. This can be a rise inside the prior sesh of nearly 4.5%, in contrast, attendance wound up having a percentage indicate 205,123. The conflicting signals might be because of the holiday weekend, when out-of-towners with small amount of time can be ready to spend out more gold gold coin for ducats for the shows they wish to see. Attendance across all Broadway hit 86% of total capacity, almost exactly on componen with a year ago at this time around around. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com