Grosses Analysis: Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, Mean Girls, More Hit New Box Office Highs | Playbill

Grosses Grosses Analysis: Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, Mean Girls, More Hit New Box Office Highs The productions earned multiple Tony Award nominations earlier this month.
Three Tall Women and The Iceman Cometh Walter McBride/Bruce Glikas

The Broadway premiere of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, starring Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill, enjoyed a bump in its box office take with an increase of $14,485—delivering its highest weekly gross to date at $923,374 for the week ending May 13.

Meanwhile, Denzel Washington continues to draw crowds at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, where the revival of Eugene O’Neill’s four-hour epic The Iceman Cometh broke its own box office record for the second week in a row, taking in $1,120,651—nudging ahead of last week’s record of $1,108,336.

Click here for an in-depth look at this week's grosses.

Both productions are Tony-nominated in the Best Revival of a Play category. The Iceman Cometh earned seven additional nods (including one for headliner Denzel Washington), while Three Tall Women scored a total of six nominations, including Leading Actress in a Play for Glenda Jackson and Featured Actress in a Play for Laurie Metcalf.

Also breaking records last week were Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ($2,125,043), Mean Girls ($1,496,978), and My Fair Lady ($1,127,666).

 
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