'Mountaintop' plays to bigger Broadway crowd

"The Mountaintop" has started a possible ascent hand strikes office levels, climbing continuously inside a frame when the majority of the Primary Stem continued to be flat. The Angela Bassett-Samuel L. Jackson starrer, which opened up March. 13 to some mixed bag of reviews, rose by about $130,000 to $789,727 in Week 21 (March. 17-23), playing to around 94% of capacity. Among plays, that puts "Mountaintop" second simply to "War Equine" ($985,848). Some of the Rialto's previewing plays also published increases, although the majority of individuals boosts might be credited that individuals plays elevated the amount of performances they performed towards the standard eight. Nearly all Broadway productions barely budged, with many sales fluctuations unremarkable, along with a couple of near to imperceptible. Cume rose a small $200,000 to $21.5 million for that 26 shows around the boards. Attendance walked up slightly to 232,997, or 88%, well in front of the 79% drenched throughout exactly the same frame this past year.The 19 musicals made $17,744,606 for 82.4% from the Broadway total, with attendance of 187,059 as well as an average compensated admission of $94.86.The seven plays made $3,783,343 for 17.6% from the Broadway total, with attendance of 45,938 as well as an average compensated admission of $82.36. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com