Broadway Served Up Best Thanksgiving Week In History With $46M B.O.; ‘Wicked’ Soars To Nearly $3M

Broadway recorded its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $46,046,759, a huge increase over last year’s turkey holiday take of $34,512,033.

Attendance for this year’s Thanksgiving week – the Broadway week ending December 1 – was 312,143, compared to last year’s Thanksgiving week attendance of 228,711.

The top grosser for this year’s holiday week was, no surprise, Wicked, the 21-year-old Broadway musical getting a renewed boost of interest from the blockbuster movie version out now. The Broadway musical grossed $2,930,221, topping the #2 entry on the chart (The Lion King, $2,883,276) and #3 (Hamilton $2,579,544).

A full box office report will be posted shortly…