Are Broadway theatres fuller on holiday weeks?
About the same — no clear difference.
Holiday weeks averaged 83.4% and normal weeks 83.1% — close enough that the gap could just be chance.
The evidence
Average gap: +0.4% (95% confidence range -0.7 to 1.4), from 356 holiday weeks and 931 normal weeks.
How we measured it
We compare the two groups and check the gap is bigger than random noise. Based on 1,287 data points. This is a pattern we spotted, not proof. Plenty of other things move these numbers too — the time of year, which shows are playing, ticket prices — so treat it as a clue, not a rule.
More Broadway questions, answered
Answers are computed from Broadway League weekly grosses (via Playbill) plus weather and holiday data — correlations, not proof of cause. See the methodology on each figure above.