Broadway ends its highest grossing season
40 Broadway theatres sell record US$1.365b worth of tickets in year that ended on Sunday
New York
BUOYED by a rising stream of tourists, the unexpected popularity of an adolescent with Asperger's syndrome, the star power of Larry David and Helen Mirren, and the enduring appeal of a lion named Simba, the Broadway season that just ended was the highest-grossing ever.
The Broadway League, a trade organisation that represents producers, said on Tuesday that the 40 Broadway theatres had sold a record US$1.365 billion worth of tickets in the year that ended on Sunday.
Although the grosses are not inflation-adjusted, and although part of Broadway's financial success is thanks to premium…
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