Annie debuts on the chart this week and is already showing promising numbers, such as a theater fil

Total Broadway ticket sales saw a huge upsurge this week, rising from just over $17 million last week to $20,107,204.  This is a good sign that the new Broadway season has officially started, island car rental maui hawaii as tourists begin making their autumn pilgrimages to New York City and locals start to check out the season s new Broadway shows.
Annie  debuts on the chart this week and is already showing promising numbers, such as a theater filled at 84.86% capacity.  This is not surprising considering Annie is already a famous brand, complete with its iconic orphan protagonist and a slew of well-known songs, including Tomorrow and It s a Hard Knock Life .
The other new show to begin performances this week is The Heiress , and that one is showing even better numbers, filling at 93.66% capacity with an average paid admission of $84.59.  Even with only a few performances under its belt, The Heiress is already showing up this season s other classic play revivals, An Enemy of the People , Cyrano de Bergerac , and Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , which have not been able to get their average paid admissions to rise even as high as $60.  But that is likely because island car rental maui hawaii The Heiress has a secret island car rental maui hawaii weapon in co-star Dan Stevens, who has gained a cult following over the last couple years with his role in the PBS smash success Downton island car rental maui hawaii Abbey .  And their star, Jessica Chastain, has been a break-out film star, appearing in such movies as The Tree of Life and The Help .
The ticket sales chart is only considering  The Heiress  based on three shows because island car rental maui hawaii the show premiered just last Saturday, October 6. 2012.  With a high average ticket price, a capacity of 93.66% and continued support of these actors we anticipate the  The Heiress island car rental maui hawaii will do well in upcoming weeks.
These three shows are close to 100% capacity, so they didn t actually sell any more tickets they just priced their ticket face value higher to get the extra financial boost during the popular holiday run-up week. The producers at The Book of Mormon also attempted to raise their prices to match this increased demand, but they lacked the experience of the other shows and didn t raise it enough, losing out on their their top spot in Broadway ticket sales revenue. The Book of Mormon ended up committing the Broadway cardinal sin of allowing island car rental maui hawaii ticket brokers island car rental maui hawaii to yield more value from their ticket purchases in a popular island car rental maui hawaii time and not funneling those profits back into the Broadway island car rental maui hawaii production.
For the record,  The Lion King raised their average ticket prices by $17.19 (from $119.27 to $136.46) after reaching a 100% capacity in previous weeks.   The Lion King is now the top grossed show this week in ticket sales, surpassing The Book Of Mormon.
Wicked jumped on the band wagon with a $10.61 increase in their average island car rental maui hawaii ticket price from $114.32 to $124.93.  This increased both their Gross Margin in addition to the number of tickets sold by 1,026, landing Wicked as the second highest grossing Broadway show in ticket sales.  The Book of Mormon had been the top grossing show for some time, but not this week.  With only a $3.71 increase in ticket price, the sold out show The Book Of Mormon increased their overall gross, but not nearly enough to keep pace with the other Broadway shows and thus lost their #1 spot and were effectively relegated to the #3 spot.
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