Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/25/26

Lots of notable happy trails said this week: Alex Newell, Robyn Hurder, Ne-Yo, Yolanda Adams, Tamar Greene, Cheyenne Jackson, Robert Petkoff, and Pepe Muñoz. 

Expected downturn in the numbers this week, a combination of the 2-for-1 Broadway Week deals starting again and Winter Storm Fern playing a major factor over the weekend. (Most of the shows that somehow went on in that snow were very sparsely attended.)

Look at CHESS bumping JUST IN TIME out of the top five - and with Groff back in the fold!

Updated On: 1/27/26 at 03:14 PM

EDSOSLO858 said: "Lots of notable happy trails said this week: Alex Newell, Robyn Hurder, Ne-Yo, Yolanda Adams, Tamar Greene, Cheyenne Jackson, Robert Petkoff, and Pepe Muñoz.

Expected downturn in the numbers this week, a combination of the 2-for-1 Broadway Week deals starting again and Winter Storm Fern playing a major factor over the weekend. (Most of the shows that somehow went on in that snow were very sparsely attended.)

Look at CHESS bumping JUST IN TIME out of the top five - and with Groff back in the fold!"

Chess box office always blitzes JIT by a few hundred thousand ( in fact this week was Chess's lowest box office so far, a combo of the storm and a scheduled Lea absence)  so this comment is confusing, unless you mean the capacity and yes JIT usually is higher in capacity given its a much smaller venue than the Imperial so thats no surprise.

The League reports only tickets sold, not actual attendance.  

Merkin2 said: "Only 400 people for the Saturday matinee? Before the snow ?"

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but these are the numbers I’m referring to.

I’m confused.

how can the grosses be this low? I thought it was just 1 day of snow… 

Rob said: "Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/25/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past. Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses...

Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION (0.4%), Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HAMILTON (-101%), HADESTOWN (-100.4%), WICKED (-100%), MAMMA MIA! (-100%), RAGTIME (-99.8%), OH, MARY! (-99.4%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-99%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-98.4%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-97.3%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-96.6%), MARJORIE PRIME (-96.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-95.8%), THE LION KING (-95.1%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-94.8%), MJ (-93.6%), CHESS (-92.6%), JUST IN TIME (-92.4%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-92.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-89.3%), OEDIPUS (-88.8%), LIBERATION (-87.3%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-85.3%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-83%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-82.4%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-79.1%), CHICAGO (-75.5%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-7.5%), & JULIET (-4.6%), BUG (-3.8%), ALADDIN (-2.8%), Click Here to Visit the BroadwayWorld Grosses..."

How can a show be down 101% in capacity? 

We constantly have had top hit shows reporting over 100% capacity for as long as I can remember. Standing room. 

Looks to me like someone made an Excel sheet and for the 'Changes in Attendance' column intended use the formula:

[ThisWeeksAttendence - LastWeeksAttendence]

but then somehow dropped ThisWeeksAttendence. What remained was:

[ - LastWeeksAttendence]

Note the minus sign (-) still being present. So the results in that column now are simply the negatives of Last Week's Attendance numbers. These were automatically exported as a comma separated list of:

"ShowTitle ( ChangesInAttendance )".

Easy to fix.

For simplicity I omitted the rounding from the formula. Don't ask me why the last few are correct. Manually corrected? The sheet inadvertently has two different formulas for that column?

Updated On: 1/29/26 at 02:13 PM