Irene Causes Disastrous Week For Broadway Theatre

Total attendance for the week was also naturally lower, with 130,853 people attending all 23 musicals and plays versus last week’s total of 217,661. The biggest casualties of Irene were “The Lion King,” which dropped almost $710,000 from the week before, and “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” which had revenues fall by about $634,000. Both could offer only five performances.