Labor Day weekend proved a boon for Broadway’s box office, which posted strong increases across the board. The 25 productions running during the week ending Sept. 1 grossed a collective $28,131,405, an 11% increase from the previous week (the week ending Aug. 25, when one less show was playing). Attendance saw a strong increase as well, jumping 5.8% to 223,670 total admissions. Capacity increased 3.8%, filling available seats in theaters to 94.5%.
Both the aforementioned percent increases in gross and attendance are the largest week-over-week bumps to date in the 2024-2025 season. These figures are also much higher than the average week-over-week increase seen during the 10-year period from 2012 through 2023 (excluding 2020 when no shows were playing and 2021 when the handful of post-pandemic shows proves an outlier). The average bump week-to-week for gross is 1.7% and attendance tends to slip 0.2%.
