End of June Grosses for Broadway

The top-grossing Broadway productions have been calculated for last week, and once again Wicked rules the pack, coming in as the highest-grossing Broadway musical from June 22-June 28, 2009. Last week, the Gershwin Theatre’s Wicked topped out at $1,606,120, coming in atop Imperial Theatre’s Billy Elliot, which grossed $1,424,911. The third-highest grossing Broadway musical from last week was Palace Theatre’s West Side Story, which came in with $1,382,611. Not far behind West Side Story was The Lion King at Minskoff Theatre with $1,371,436, and rounding out the top five highest-grossing musicals of the week was Jersey Boys at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,151,195.

As far as plays go, God of Carnage (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre) took the cake last week as the top-grossing Broadway play, raking in $972,967. The second highest-grossing play of the week goes to Sam S. Shubert Theatre’s Blithe Spirit, which ended the week with $597,662. The third highest-grossing play of the week from last week went to Studio 54’s Waiting for Godot with $563,210, while August: Osage County at Music Box Theatre grossed $414,600 and Irena’s Vow at Walter Kerr Theatre came in at $337,100. What will the opening numbers for the first week in July be? Stay tuned to find out!

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