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It wasn’t just a visit from President Obama that made “Hamilton” big news on Broadway last week. Over seven performances in its first week on Broadway, the highly anticipated hip-hop-infused musical about the founding fathers took in a whopping $1,288,436, or 110 percent of its potential gross, at the Richard Rodgers Theater. The show outpaced several other musicals that have been perched comfortably in the list of top-grossing shows on Broadway recently, including “Finding Neverland,” “The King and I” and “Something Rotten!”

The week wasn’t kind to another new musical, “Amazing Grace,” which opened last Thursday at the Nederlander Theater to respectful but mostly negative reviews. The biodrama about the 18th-century hymn writer John Newton was the lowest-grossing of the 29 shows on Broadway last week, taking in $321,914. A significant number of seats last week were not sold but were reserved for the press. Although that was an increase of about $31,000 from the week prior, it remains at the bottom on Broadway, a spot it has claimed since it started performances on June 25.

“Hamilton” was one of 13 shows that grossed over $1 million last week. Two musicals — “The Lion King” (again in the top spot) and “Wicked” — both took in over $2 million. The Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” continued to demonstrate staying power at the box office, grossing $817,665, its best one-week total since starting performances in March. The highest-grossing nonmusical was “Penn & Teller on Broadway,” a magic show that took in $1,225,399, an increase of $150,110 over the previous week.

Only two shows saw dips at the box office from the week earlier: “The King and I,” which grossed $1,152,974, a drop of $94,181, and “On the Town,” which took in $501,525, a decrease of $8,295.