Overview
- Broadway reported $36,698,946 in grosses and 291,840 attendees for the week ending June 28, according to box-office tallies from The Broadway League.
- The Rocky Horror Show set a new Studio 54 house record, grossing $1,215,225 and filling about 97 percent of seats during the reporting week.
- Giant closed its run with its best week ever, taking in roughly $1.6 million at the Music Box Theatre driven by sold-out performances and an average ticket near $200.
- Three shows—Death Becomes Her, Giant, and The Fear of 13—closed June 28 and registered large final-week gains as last-chance ticket buying pushed their grosses higher.
- Despite these event-driven highs, 24 of 35 productions fell week-to-week and the season-to-date gross through five weeks is about 11 percent below last year, a gap industry observers link to high prices, limited runs and a summer roster trim that makes weekly totals more volatile.