Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/19/25

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: LIBERATION (4%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (0.8%), ART (0.6%), HADESTOWN (0.3%), PUNCH (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: BEETLEJUICE (-25.6%), CHICAGO (-14.5%), THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (-8.9%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-6.2%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-5.6%), & JULIET (-5.2%), LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (-5.1%), ALADDIN (-4.5%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-3.7%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-3.6%), MJ (-3.2%), THE LION KING (-2.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-1.5%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-1.3%), MAMMA MIA! (-0.8%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-0.5%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-0.4%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-0.4%), JUST IN TIME (-0.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-0.2%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-0.1%),

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That was the top ticket price last week. Because of LOJ. 
 

Also, Chess is on track to break the Imperial top gross earnings next week, no?

chernjam said: "Hamilton with a $1500 top ticket price?? Was there a special reason for that?"

The return of Leslie Odom Jr has proven highly profitable and presumably the prices were raised to keep tickets out of the hands of scalpers.

Wow Beetlejuice’s drop was significant and QOV is off to a rocky start

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "How in the lord's name is Liberation making money? They haven't even completed their raise yet!"

It’s a unit set with minimal costume changes and an 8 person cast (plus understudies). I can’t imagine the budget is that high, but even if every person is making at or slightly above equity minimum, I still can’t see a situation where they aren’t in the red. Maybe they are getting a break on renting the theatre since it has no prospective tenants and a theatre is better open than closed

This might be one of those plays that should have stayed off-Broadway

How big a bump will Wicked get when part 2 movie released?

a typical musical is now between 750k and 1,250,000 a week

RippedMan said: "If a typical musical is between 500-800k a week to run, I would wonder how something as tiny as Liberation costs."

 

That average ticket price for QofV is deadly.  I thought that KC fans would have frontloaded ticket sales for awhile..  Clearly that is not the case.  So, is QofV already an albatross or is KC (whose voice is still great and who still has a lot of presence) no longer capable of selling tickets in sufficient volume to justify leading a big, expensive musical?.  (Or is the real issue that, although well-named and liked, she has never really sold tickets.  (Clearly, Wicked sells its own tickets and always has)).

Jarethan said: "That average ticket price for QofV is deadly. I thought that KC fans would have frontloaded ticket sales for awhile.. Clearly that is not the case. So, is QofV already an albatross or is KC (whose voice is still great and who still has a lot of presence) no longer capable of selling tickets in sufficient volume to justify leading a big, expensive musical?. (Or is the real issue that, although well-named and liked, she has never really sold tickets. (Clearly, Wicked sells its own tickets and always has))."

I wonder also if some KC fans simply don't want to tarnish their appreciation/image of her by seeing her in something if it has consistently bad WOM.

 

I would venture Wicked will adjust top price to $400 and it will earn another 700-800K per week.

carlisle14 said: "KrupYou said: "How big a bump will Wicked get when part 2 movie released?"

Not a bunch of room for a bump. This is a show that is at 98%-100% weekly. Solid ticket prices already."

Unless I missed a week, Wicked has not had an empty seat since a few weeks before the movie opened.  The movie gave it a shot in the arm that I can only remember seeing once before, with Chicago.  Different case, however; Chicago was not doing great business before the movie opened, and probably would have closed 15 years ago, had it not been for the movie.