A best musical Tony Award win has powered A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder to its best week ever at the box office, but even one of the shows it beat had a record week since the trophies were handed out.
A Gentleman’s Guide, in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, took in $851,262 (Dh3.1 million) in the week ending Sunday, its highest take so far. Its rival Beautiful: The Carole King Musical grossed $1,170,050 over eight shows, shattering the house record at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
The best play winner on Sunday, All the Way with Bryan Cranston, took in $288,909 more than the previous week to end with $1,229,459. Another winner was Rocky, which saw its gross and attendance rise after snagging a spot on the Tony telecast. It grossed $761,451, or $143,461 more than the week before. Plus, some 1,170 more people came to see it, pushing attendance to 8,629.
Aladdin, which had James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie turn in a spirited performance of Friend Like Me during the show, earned $1,332,137, its biggest weekly take so far. Top premium tickets now go for $252.50.
Not all the shows featured on the telecast did better, including Cabaret, which dipped $30,940 to $731,192, and Violet, which lost $33,969 from the previous week to earn just $342,638.