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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

London Theater Breaks Box Office Records As Broadway Treads Water

Variety: Broadway may have ended a record-breaking streak last season, but across the pond, numbers are on their way up. In London, both box office and attendance rose to new highs in 2013, according to the latest report from the Society of London Theater.
At the 52 theaters that fall under the SOLT umbrella, the year-end gross of £585,506,455 ($970 million) repped an 11% gain compared to 2012, besting the £529,787,692 ($878 million) record set that year. Attendance climbed 4% to 14,587,297, the highest tally since 14.3 million theatergoers turned out in 2009.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Its good to hear that theater is not drowning all over the world. I did not know before this that in general, West End tickets were cheaper than Broadway, this might have something to do with why they have higher attendance than Broadway, or that they encompass more theaters and more areas of art.

Mike Vultaggio said...

I am glad to hear that London theatre is flourishing even though Broadway is currently not doing so great. London has always been a city that embraces theatre and the arts and it seems like they are making it possible for more people to see their shows with low ticket prices. With this in their favor it is a bit easier to see why they would take in more money than Broadway. The cities promotion of the arts is seen in many other ways including the fact that many now Broadway productions had their start in London's West End.