'Hamilton' Explodes, Topping $2M Even Before Winning 11 Tony Awards: Broadway Box Office by Jeremy Gerard

Broadway’s Week 3 of the new season coincided with the Belmont Stakes, the endurance test of the Triple Crown, and both ended with a pair of noses at the wire. In the horse race, Creator edged out Destin at the end of the mile-and-a-half track. On Broadway, Disney’s age-impervious thoroughbred, The Lion King, inched past the Tony front-runner Hamilton, but only by $43.7K, with Simba posting $2.07M at the …

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