Broadway's Holiday Hangover: Box Office Plunges 44%, Attendance Drops 33% In $23.8M Week
Winter came fast and hard to Broadway last week, as eight shows shuttered and attendance plunged one-third from the last holiday week of the calendar year. It was also the week that saw premature defenestration notices go up for Disgraced (March 1), If/Then (March 22) and, perhaps most painfully, The Last Ship (January 24) in the wake of disappointing runs. Overall box office was off a staggering 44%, though that …