Spooked Broadway Box Office Plunged 17% As Crowds Stayed Away In Droves by Jeremy Gerard

Every so often dire predictions, like the weather forecast, prove correct, and that’s the story of Week 23 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. Producers feared the triple whammy of the World Series, a Saturday Hallowe’en and the NYC Marathon on Sunday would strike fear in the hearts of the theater-bound, and they were right: Box office receipts were down 17 percent over the week before, also down over th…

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