Chicago reached close to $1.5 million last week, its highest recorded total, according to the production, as Dancing with the Stars’ and The Traitors’ Mark Ballas joined the show as Billy Flynn, opposite Whitney Leavitt.
Leavitt, who was partnered with Ballas on Dancing With the Stars and starred on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, had already been a box big office contributor for the show. But with Ballas, the average ticket price jumped up to $171, and capacity increased to 100 percent at the Ambassador Theatre.
That ticket price puts it in the same league as Proof, which is currently in previews at the Booth Theatre starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle, and carried a $180 average ticket price, with close to 100 percent capacity and $968,774 brought in across its first seven previews. And it’s comparable to Giant, starring John Lithgow, which opened March 23
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