B'way shuffles bomb B.O.
Total receipts drop 3.8%
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Taking over for McEntire, Crystal Bernard put in her first full week of "Annie Get Your Gun" performances, with grosses off by a whopping $335,414 from the previous session. Box office now rests at $486,185.
Looking at the bright side, those figures are nearly $100,000 better than those that the revival averaged under Cheryl Ladd, who replaced Bernadette Peters last September.
After missing five perfs the previous week, Sinise did a full eight this time around in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," with B.O. up $63,599. Final figures: $335,160 against the production's gross potential of $509,780.
End of 'Love'
Doing 96.42% capacity, "The Invention of Love" went out with its best week ever, up $299,018 to finish with $299,108. The Tom Stoppard play closed Saturday.
Soaring $86,865, "King Hedley II" left Broadway with that play's second- best session: $241,478. The August Wilson drama closed Sunday.
Otherwise, B.O. rises were relatively small, ranging from the $772 improvement for "Les Miserables" to the $13,542 uptick for "George Gershwin Alone," which closed with a tally of $85,662 on its gross potential of $279,396.
Downward spirals tended to be more precipitous, with several landing in the five-figure range. Those included closing numbers for "Chicago" (down $37,086), "Contact" (down $32,213), "Kiss Me, Kate" (down $61,354) and "The Music Man" (down $35,551). Also falling five figures, "The Dinner Party" and "Stones in His Pockets" put in their lowest grossing weeks to date, finishing with $192,410 and $172,798, respectively.
Tuner "42nd Street" joined "The Producers" and "The Lion King" in the sold-out category.
