Broadway appeared to catch its breath last week as it heads into the fall season. Box office revenue for the second full week of August fell about 9% from the week before.

In total, the 25 shows grossed $28,132,262 for the week ending August 18th. Although down from the week before, when Illinoise was still on the charts and grossed a whopping $1,167,159 in its final week. Even with the slightly smaller selection, last week’s attendance was up a whopping 9% over the same week last season.

All but five of the 25 productions in the lineup declined. The five trend-breakers were the ever-popular Moulin Rouge! (up $4,485 to $1,220,778), the popular summer tickets Oh, Mary! (up $12,699 to $1,056,794, a record for Lyceum House) and Cabaret (up $16,523 to $1,520,726), the steadily rising Suffs (up $6,523 to $713,408) and, with the biggest increase in takings, The Wiz, which closed its hugely popular limited run up $261,849 to $1,945,288.

The week's sold-out shows were: Hadestown, Oh, Mary!, Once Upon a Time Mattress (which grossed $668,532 in its opening week), Stereophonic, The Outsiders and The Wiz.