When Broadway’s top two shows combine to rake in a record-breaking total of more than $4 million in a single week, it must mean holiday time on the Great White Way. And when 15 additional shows ring up $1 million-plus in sales—including a whopping $1.88 million for Spider-Man in its first eight-performance week and a record-shattering $1.39 mil for Broadway’s longest-running show, The Phantom of the Opera—it’s definitely time to pop the cork on a bottle of bubbly. Of course, the new year brings a big crop of closings, as well: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Brief Encounter; Elf; Fela!; Promises, Promises; The Pee-wee Herman Show; West Side Story and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown played their final performances on Broadway. But consider this as a merely a brief lull before 20 new titles make their Main Stem bow.
Here is a look at who was on top and who was not for the week ending January 2:
FRONTRUNNERS (By Gross)
1. Wicked ($2,228,235)
2. The Lion King ($1,993,520)
3. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ($1,880,833)*
4. Billy Elliot ($1,518,486)**
5. Mary Poppins ...
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