However, I do question one line in the article:
> The average income of Broadwaygoers in 2018-19 was $261k — roughly 4x the median household income in the US.
$261k?!? the average income of attendees?!? That's can't be right can it?
For the purpose of the point the article was making in that section (about how the efforts to 'make Broadway more affordable and more democratic come up short.', the 'average' income seems particularly useless as a metric to gauge success.
As you point out, the median is a much better metric.
It is incredibly annoying to know that someone had the data and chose to not show its distribution, when it costs them almost nothing to do so. I assume any use of the word “average” without specifying mean or median, or really any use of mean average, to be clickbait because there is no reason to use it when you know the underlying distribution is skewed.
I don't know the stats in the UK, but anecdotally, everyone I know who regularly goes to the theatre (as opposed to occasionally e.g. once every year or two) isn't far off financial independence.
Poor people will just watch it on TV.