{"id":329,"date":"2011-02-24T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-02-24T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:31:25","slug":"lion-king-broadway-box-office-update-grabs-the-top-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/lion-king-broadway-box-office-update-grabs-the-top-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion King Broadway Box Office Update, Grabs the Top Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Broadway, Lion King grossed $1,534,779 and had a 94.2% attendance rate for the week ending February 20, 2011 and was 3.0% more than the last week. Lion King reported an increase of $252,227 over the previous week&#8217;s box office. Last week&#8217;s biggest earning show on Broadway wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Wicked&#8221; or &#8220;Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.&#8221; It was Lion King, an old show that can still roar. The 22 shows on the boards grossed $16,930,141, 10.77% more than that of the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lion King,&#8221; with music by Elton John and Tim Rice, became the seventh-longest running show in Broadway history on Jan. 2 when it played its 5,462nd performance. Producers say 17 productions of the show have been seen by more than 54 million people and grossed more than $4.2 billion to date. <\/p>\n<p>Below are the Top 10 Grosses for the week ending February 20, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/\">The Lion King \u2013 (MINSKOFF)<\/a> $1,534,779<br \/>\n2. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked \u2013 (GERSHWIN)<\/a> $1,526,036<br \/>\n3. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.spidermanturnoffthedarkticketsonline.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.spidermanturnoffthedarkticketsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark \u2013 (FOXWOODS)<\/a> $1,476,828<br \/>\n4. American Idiot \u2013 (ST. JAMES) $1,144,030<br \/>\n5. The Merchant Of Venice \u2013 (BROADHURST) $1,125,273<br \/>\n6. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.jerseyboysbroadwayticketsonline.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseyboysbroadwayticketsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Boys \u2013 (AUGUST WILSON)<\/a> $986,328<br \/>\n7. The Addams Family \u2013 (LUNT-FONTANNE) $949,966<br \/>\n8. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.billyelliotmusicalticketsonline.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.billyelliotmusicalticketsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Elliot: The Musical<\/a> \u2013 (IMPERIAL) $873,024<br \/>\n9. Mary Poppins \u2013 (NEW AMSTERDAM) $870,028<br \/>\n10. MAMMA MIA! \u2013 (WINTER GARDEN) $764,201<\/p>\n<p>{Via <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/broadwayworld.com\/grosses.cfm?sortby=gross&#038;orderby=desc');\"  href=\"http:\/\/broadwayworld.com\/grosses.cfm?sortby=gross&#038;orderby=desc\" target=\"_blank\">BroadwayWorld.com<\/a>}<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Broadway, Lion King grossed $1,534,779 and had a 94.2% attendance rate for the week ending February 20, 2011 and was 3.0% more than the last week. Lion King reported an increase of $252,227 over the previous week&#8217;s box office. Last week&#8217;s biggest earning show on Broadway wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Wicked&#8221; or &#8220;Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,38,30,3,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}