<P> Wicked's productions across North America and abroad have been equally financially successful . The Los Angeles production took the local weekly gross record, again from a performance of The Producers, bringing in $1,786,110 in the week ending March 4, 2007 . The production joined its Broadway counterpart in setting a new record over Christmas 2007 with $1,949,968, with records also set in Chicago ($1,418,363), and St Louis ($2,291,608), to bring the collective gross of the seven worldwide productions to a world record - breaking $11.2 million . A new suite of records were set over Christmas 2010, with house records broken in San Francisco ($1,485,692), Providence ($1,793,764) and Schenectady ($1,657,139) as well as Broadway, bringing the musical's one - week gross in North America alone to $7,062,335 . </P> <P> Wicked played to more than 2 million visitors in Chicago with a gross of over $200 million, making it the highest - grossing show in Chicago history by June 2007 . With an opening - week gross of $1,400,000, it continually set records and became the longest - running Broadway musical in Chicago history . Producer David Stone told Variety, "we thought it (the Chicago production) would run 18 months, then we'd spend a year in Los Angeles and six months in San Francisco...but sales stayed so strong that the producers created another road show and kept the show running in Chicago ." In addition, over 2.2 million saw the touring production in its first two years, which grossed over $155 million The Los Angeles production grossed over $145 million and was seen by more than 1.8 million patrons . Over the 672 performances of the San Francisco production, Wicked sold over 1 million tickets with a cumulative gross of over $75 million . While the Broadway production of Wicked welcomed its 5 millionth audience member on September 29, 2010, </P> <P> International productions of Wicked have matched the extremely positive reception at the box - office . Although West End theatres do not publish audited weekly grosses, the West End production of Wicked claimed to take the record for highest one - week gross in December 2006, taking £ 761,000 in the week ending December 30 . 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 commencing December 27, 2010, the London production grossed £ 1,002,885, the highest single - week gross in West End theatre history, with over 20,000 theatregoers attending the nine performances of Wicked that week . The Melbourne production broke Australian box - office records, selling 24,750 tickets in three hours during pre-sales and grossing over $1.3 million on the first business day after its official opening . On April 27, 2009, the production passed the milestone of 500,000 patrons . When it transferred to Sydney, the production broke "all previous weekly box office records for a musical at the Capitol Theatre, grossing $1,473,775.70" in one week during October 2009 . </P> <P> In the week ending October 17, 2010, Wicked became only the third musical in Broadway history to exceed $500 million in total gross . By seats sold on Broadway, it ranks tenth of all time . As of September 2011, Wicked's North American and international companies have cumulatively grossed nearly $2.5 billion and have been seen by nearly 30 million people worldwide . The original production still runs today and currently stands as the 11th longest - running Broadway show in history . Wicked celebrated its 1,000 th performance on Broadway on March 23, 2006 . Several other productions have also reached the 1,000 th performance milestone, including the first North American touring company on August 15, 2007, the Chicago company on November 14, 2007, the West End company on February 14, 2009, the Australian company on May 7, 2011 and the second North American touring company on August 4, 2011 . </P>

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