‘Moulin Rouge!’ With Aaron Tveit Bids Adieu With Best Gross In Years – Broadway Box Office
Moulin Rouge! The Musical closed out its seven-year Broadway run in style, topping the box office chart with a gross of $2,336,973 for its final week at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The strong finish, boosted by original Tony-winning star Aaron Tveit returning for the closing fortnight, drew fans keen for a last chance to see the show, and marked its second-highest weekly gross ever, behind only a Christmas-week haul in its debut season.
The sold-out production also commanded the highest average ticket price of the week at $223.46, well above Hamilton's $188.91 and the citywide average of $115.04. Elsewhere, horror adaptation Paranormal Activity impressed in its first post-opening week at the Wilson, playing to 99% capacity and grossing $735,747. Overall, the 26 Broadway shows took in $25,753,182 for the week ending 30 August, down about 4% on the previous week and 16% year-on-year, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child surging on Tom Felton's return while The Rocky Horror Show and The Lion King saw notable declines.
In short
- Moulin Rouge! closed with its second-best weekly gross in seven years
- Aaron Tveit's return as Christian drove a ticket sales surge
- Paranormal Activity drew strong 99% capacity in its second week
Explained simply
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a stage adaptation of the 2001 film, set in a Paris nightclub and built around well-known pop songs. It opened on Broadway in 2019 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre and won 10 Tony Awards, including best musical.
The production’s original leading actor, Aaron Tveit, won a Tony for his performance and later returned for its final weeks. Broadway is New York’s main commercial theatre district, where box-office figures show how much productions earn from ticket sales and how full their theatres are. These figures help explain the scale of a show’s audience and its place among other productions.
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