Broadway Grosses: The Book of Mormon Continues to Smash Box Office Records

For the 21st time in its eight-month Broadway run, The Book of Mormon has broken the house record at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The show earned more than $1.37 million for the week in a theater with 600-900 fewer seats than those housing the top three shows on the frontrunners' list. Rounding out the top five is Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, which managed to gross more than $1 million in a week in which Jackman performed seven (rather than the usual eight) concerts, also in a relatively small theater (the Broadhurst). Meanwhile, the new musical Bonnie & Clyde and the revival of Private Lives began Broadway previews.

Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending November 6:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,579,280)
2. Wicked ($1,535,611)
3. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,419,223)
4. The Book of Mormon ($1,370,277)
5. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway ($1,173,785)*

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. Man and Boy ($298,913)
4. Chinglish ($294,161)
3. Venus in Fur ($266,414)**
2. Bonnie & Clyde ($265,147)***
1. Private Lives ($51,250)****

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. The Lion King (100.05%)
3. Other Desert Cities (99.59)*****
4. War Horse (98.11%)
5. Godspell (97.23%)**

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. The Addams Family (65.78%)
4. Mamma Mia (65.77%)
3. Follies (63.83%)
2. Mary Poppins (58.17%)
1. Chinglish (54.85%)

*Number based on seven preview performances.
**Number based on eight preview performances.
***Number based on five preview performances.
****Number based on one preview performance.
*****Number based on three previews and five regular performances.
Data provided by the Broadway League.