‘Riverdance’ global tour revenues hit €20m mark

Riverdance last year clocked up more than $20m (€19.4m) in touring revenues as the entertainment phenomenon showed no sign of losing any of its world-wide appeal.

The show — spawned from a seven minute-long interval performance at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest — celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014 and has been seen by more than 23m people in two decades.

New figures provided by trade industry journal Pollstar show Riverdance clocked up ticket sales of $20.6m in 2016 as a result of 207 performances in 45 cities around the world. The figures show the touring production sold just under 350,000 tickets with the average gross from each city totalling $458,199.