Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 1/4/26

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: BEETLEJUICE (20.2%), LIBERATION (14.1%), THE GREAT GATSBY (9.8%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (8.9%), OEDIPUS (8.6%), BUG (8.5%), DEATH BECOMES HER (5%), CHESS (4.7%), ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION (4.2%), CHICAGO (3.8%), HELL'S KITCHEN (3.7%), & JULIET (3.2%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (3%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (2.8%), HADESTOWN (2.6%), THE LION KING (2.3%), MARJORIE PRIME (2%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (1.9%), ALADDIN (1.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (1.5%), THE OUTSIDERS (1.4%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1.3%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (0.7%), MJ (0.5%), MAMMA MIA! (0.3%), JUST IN TIME (0.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-12.6%), HAMILTON (-0.2%),

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The seating capacities for LIBERATION and TWO STRANGERS tell you all you need to know about this week. Salivate at the New Year’s figures! Salivate!

This Black Sunday we said goodbye to BEETLEJUICE, WAITING FOR GODOT, Jane Krakowski, Ben Schwartz, Tabitha Lawing, and Shaina Taub (for now). 

Interesting that STRANGER THINGS had one of the biggest drops last week, but it’s still in a great place and future spinoffs of the Netflix series + a proshot should keep it there for years to come. 

Hopefully the winter doldrums aren’t too brutal for Broadway this time around.

Updated On: 1/6/26 at 02:26 PM

EDSOSLO858 said: "The seating capacities for LIBERATION and TWO STRANGERS tell you all you need to know about this week. Salivate at the New Year’s figures! Salivate!

This Black Sunday we said goodbye to BEETLEJUICE, WAITING FOR GODOT, Jane Krakowski, Ben Schwartz, Tabitha Lawing, and Shaina Taub (for now).

Interesting that STRANGER THINGS had the biggest drop last week, but it’s still in a great place and future spinoffs of the Netflix series + a proshot should keep it there for years to come.

Hopefully the winter doldrums aren’ttoo brutal for Broadway this time around."

Has a proshot been announced for ST?

Kad said: "This is the first winter in a while in which nothing really seems in imminent danger of closing before spring. Interesting that in a season in which a lot of focus is on the lack of new musicals, Broadway as whole seems to be doing very well."

Take that, people who say "broadway is dying" 

Jordan Catalano said: "That drop in grosses for “Wicked” is crazy."

 

9 perfs last week vs. 8 this week accounts for a chunk of it.

 

Updated On: 1/6/26 at 02:46 PM

I remember the days when a show crossed a million in grosses it meant that it was doing extremely well. Now it feels like that new number is $3million. But in those days, paying $100 for a ticket was expensive, now that is a bargain! 

Observation said: "I remember the days when a show crossed a million in grosses it meant that it was doing extremely well. Now it feels like that new number is $3million. But in those days, paying $100 for a ticket was expensive, now that is a bargain!"

Out of 33 shows, 26 of them grossed over $1 million.

bwaylyric said: "Nice bump for Two Strangers. I hope it continues bumping up."

I've not seen it obviously being on the other side of the world but I enjoyed the London cast recording so I hope it does turn into this season's little show that could.

Also, can anybody advise if one of Aaron's unscheduled performances out was last week or if they were all in the previous week for Chess. 

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Kad said: "Interesting that in a season in which a lot of focus is on the lack of new musicals, Broadway as whole seems to be doing very well."

The latter is arguably why this season doesn't have a ton of new musicals coming in. Lack of available venues due to how well a majority of productions are currently doing commerically."

I suspect it is due more to the number of major flops last season, some despite solid reviews, that has made investors more anxious than they have been for a long time.

It appears everyone got their nice little boost for NYE. However, the following weeks are going to likely look a lot more dour.

Re: Stranger Things - All I see is 2/18 blocked off as having no performance (aside from the usual Mondays). Good for them for getting their gross up, but they are FAR from looking like they are gonna settle in for the long haul. Before the holidays and the Season 5 release, they were barely paying the bills, and only ever got roughly 60% of their 1.5M breakeven for months.

 Netflix has played the long game and poured money into this show to keep it running, but if they have a major dropoff during the winter, I see it gone by the summer. I highly doubt they these new spinoffs in the can already to bolster the brand.

A proshot also makes no sense to me if only because it’s a truly LIVE experience that is going to get flattened on TV and disincentivize people from going to it in person

EDSOSLO858 said: "quizking101 said: "A proshot also makes no sense to me if only because it’s a truly LIVE experience that is going to get flattened on TV and disincentivize people from going to it in person"

I disagree, I think a STRANGER THINGS proshotcould have a Hamiltonian effect and actually get more people interested in seeing it live."

Hamilton is also performer and material-driven, not spectacle/effects driven. On top of that, Hamilton was already so far profitable by then that it didn’t matter when they dropped the proshot. Unless they do that proshot as a live telecast and immediately release it for viewing, waiting months to clean up and edit it is not going to help a show on borrowed time 

TotallyEffed said: "schubox said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Not officially but i saw online that there’s dates blocked off in February and the rumor is that’s when they’re filming it."

What was this in reference to?"



Stranger Things getting filmed."

Ah, yeah that makes sense

$974.50 top ticket price for Just In Time.  Wowsa.  Talk about the little engine that could.