subject: Wicked Tickets : The Show Won Six Drama Desk Awards Out Of Eleven Nominations [print this page] Wicked was nominated for ten 2004 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Orchestration and twice for Best Leading Actress, for Menzel and Chenoweth.Menzel won the Best Actress award, and the show also won the Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design and Best Costume design, notably losing Best Book, Score and ultimately Best Musical to Avenue Q.
In the same year, the show won six Drama Desk Awards out of eleven nominations, including in the Book, Director and Costume Design categories.The West End production was nominated for four Laurence Olivier Awards in 2007 but did not win any.
At the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards Wicked London won the Audience Award for Most Popular Show. While not technically an "award", the character of Elphaba was named 79th on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 100 Greatest Characters of the Past 20 Years.
With a US$14 million capitalization, the Broadway production took 15 months to break even, earning back its initial investment by December 21, 2004.In its first year, it grossed more than $56 million.The production usually plays to capacity crowds and grosses more than a million dollars every week, according to reports published by Playbill.
In the week ending January 1, 2006, Wicked broke the record, previously held by The Producers, for the highest weekly box office gross in Broadway history, earning $1,610,934.Wicked broke its own record in November 2006.
In the week ending December 30, 2007, it set a new record, grossing $1,839,950. That week the show also broke its own weekly gross records in Los Angeles ($1,949,968), Chicago ($1,418,363), and in St. Louis ($2,291,608), as the seven worldwide productions of the show grossed a collective $11.2 million.
For the week ending November 29, 2009, Wicked became the first Broadway show in history to gross over $2 million for one week of performances, with a gross of $2,086,135.[98] It broke its own record twice during that Christmas seasons, reaching a gross of $2,125,740 for the week ending January 3, 2010.
The show's three other North American productions broke house records in San Francisco ($1,485,692), Providence ($1,793,764) and Schenectady ($1,657,139), bringing the musical's one-week North American box office gross to $7,062,335.Wicked was named the Best Musical of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly magazine in December 2009.
In 2010 the Broadway production of Wicked broke more records. The week of November 28, 2010, Wicked set a new record, earning $2,150,665. It then broke its own record twice during the Christmas and New Year's Weekend of that year, reaching a gross of $2,228,235.
Although West End theatres do not publish audited weekly grosses, the London production of Wicked claims to hold the record for highest reported one-week gross at 761,000, achieved in the week ending December 30, 2006. On June 23, 2008, the producers reported that over 1.4 million people had seen the London production since its opening, and grosses had topped 50 million.
The same reports stated that the show has consistently been one of the two highest-grossing shows in the West End. For the week ending on December 27, 2010 the London production grossed 1,002,885, the highest single-week gross in London theatre history. Over 20,000 theatregoers attended the nine performances of Wicked that week.
Wicked celebrated its 1,000th performance on Broadway on March 23, 2006. Several of the other productions have also reached that figure, including the North American touring company on August 15, 2007, the Chicago company on November 14, 2007, and the West End company on February 14, 2009.
As of Septemer 23, 2010, the show was the seventeenth longest-running Broadway show in history, surpassing the run of Hello, Dolly!. In the week ending October 17, 2010, Wicked became only the third musical in Broadway history to pass $500 million in total gross. By seats sold, it ranks tenth of all time.
