The brand new Broadway play McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., began off with a bang, with $746,230 introduced in throughout simply 4 performances final week.
If the manufacturing, which is enjoying on the Lincoln Middle’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, had performed the standard eight performances at that cadence, it might have introduced in near $1.5 million – an enormous quantity for a play, placing it in league with the top-grossing musicals. The manufacturing performed to full homes for each efficiency, with a median ticket value of $170.37, the second highest within the trade for the week, behind Cabaret, and strange for a nonprofit home with a big subscription viewers.
The play, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, marks Downey’s Broadway debut and sees him painting a gifted writer, however one who at all times finds himself as runner up for the Pulitzer, as he develops an intense fascination with synthetic intelligence. McNeal started previews Sept. 5 and is ready to open on Sept. 30.
Cole Escola’s comedy Oh Mary! is continuous its sturdy run on the Lyceum Theatre, breaking the field workplace report for the fifth time final week and bringing in $1.1 million and enjoying to 100% capability.
Nevertheless, most Broadway exhibits noticed a drop in grosses because the trade exits the Labor Day vacation and enters the promotional Broadway Week interval, which sees ticket offers for a lot of exhibits from Sept. 3 by way of Sept. 15. Whole gross for the trade was down 9.5 p.c in comparison with the prior week, whereas attendance was down simply 1.4 p.c.
Cabaret was one of many different exceptions, because the revival noticed grosses leap $50,000 week to week. The manufacturing introduced in $1.5 million, making it the third highest grossing present of the week. Present stars Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin are set to exit their roles after Sept. 14, with Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho taking up beginning Sept. 16.
