Hamilton hit close to $4 million last week as original cast member Leslie Odom Jr. returned to the Broadway production.
The musical, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary on Broadway, brought in the eye-popping $3.8 million last week, which is a total the musical has only previously seen around its lucrative holiday weeks, and played to more than 100 percent capacity. The average ticket price was $352.36, which only pales in comparison to the average ticket price for Waiting for Godot. Odom is set to play the role of Aaron Burr through Nov. 26. Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, played its first preview performance at the Hudson Theatre last week and brought in $367,206 in one show. If the trend continues across future performances, this could spell close to $3 million at the weekly box office. The revival, which played to 100 percent capacity at its first performance, is set to open Sept. 28.
Wicked was the second-highest-grossing show of the week with $2 million, followed by The Lion King with $1.7 million, Mamma Mia! with $1.6 million and Death Becomes Her with $1.4 million.
Art, starring James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale, fell slightly outside of the top five last week, as the play had four heavily comped press performances leading up to opening night Tuesday. The revival still brought in $1.35 million and played to close to 100 percent capacity at the Music Box Theatre.
Cabaret saw its grosses jump close to $250,000 from the prior week, to reach close to $630,000, and capacity also jumped to 91 percent from 68 percent as the understudies DavidMerinoand MartyLauter alternated in the lead role of the Emcee, taking over from Billy Porter.
Porter announced on Sept. 7 that he was withdrawing from the show as he recovered from a serious case of sepsis. In turn, the musical announced that it would be closing weeks earlier than expected, with the understudies alternating the role until the closing date of Sept. 21. However, grosses had already been trending down ahead of the closing notice amid mixed to negative word-of-mouth about Porters performance.










