After a middling autumn, buyers surged to Broadway over Thanksgiving weekend, breaking records left and right. Leading the charge was juggernaut Hamilton, which beat record-holder Wicked for highest gross in a single week, at a staggering $3.26 million. The average ticket leapt to $303 per seat, spurred by the planned increase of premium tickets to $998, the highest in history. School Of Rock had its best week of the year, adding a performance and supplanting The Book Of Mormon as the fifth highest-grossing show overall. Historically, the week after Thanksgiving is not nearly as kind, but Christmas and New Years are close, and stand to break even bigger records.

Source: Forbes November 29, 2016 01:26 UTC