Broadway Grosses: Holiday Week Attracts Audiences as Four Shows Begin Previews
Holidays usually boost Broadway’s box offices, and Presidents’ Week 2011 was no exception: Family audiences helped push shows such as Wicked, Spider-Man and The Lion King to near-record highs, and Billie Joe Armstrong’s final week in American Idiot proved to be a million-dollar draw. Four new shows got off to very promising starts, with two of the newcomers, How to Succeed in Business Without Really…