Broadway Grosses: Death of a Salesman Continues to Break Records

With only one week left in the 2011-2012 theater season, Broadway box offices have been plenty busy. Death of a Salesman and Evita are proving to be two of the spring's biggest new shows. Salesman broke the house record at the Barrymore Theatre for a fourth time by pulling in $892,533 for only seven performances. Evita surpassed Spider-Man to claim the number four spot at the box office. The still previewing Nice Work If You Can Get It is also doing nice business just shy of $1 million. 

Here's a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending April 22:

FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. The Lion King ($1,804,258)
2. Wicked ($1,800,949)
3. The Book of Mormon ($1,601,055)
4. Evita ($1,488,498)
5. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark ($1,442,773)

UNDERDOGS (By Gross)
5. The Columnist ($265,796)*
4. Don’t Dress For Dinner ($190,906)*
3. Seminar ($166,557)
2. Magic/Bird ($163,223)
1. The Lyons ($129,854)*

FRONTRUNNERS (By Capacity)
1. The Book of Mormon (102.63%)
2. Newsies (99.60%)
3. The Lion King (99.46%)
4. Death of a Salesman (99.48%)**
5. Wicked (97.03%)

UNDERDOGS (By Capacity)
5. Priscilla Queen of the Desert (56.19%)
4. Magic/Bird (55.41%)
3. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (52.69%)
2. Seminar (51.27%)
1. Venus in Fur (48.04%)

*Number based on eight preview performances
**Number based on seven regular performance
Data Provided by the Broadway League.