Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/23/25

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HELL'S KITCHEN (7.9%), LIBERATION (5.9%), CHICAGO (5%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (3.6%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (2.7%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (1.3%), ALADDIN (0.8%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE GREAT GATSBY (-8.6%), LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (-8%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-7.8%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-7%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-6.2%), MJ (-5.8%), & JULIET (-5.7%), OEDIPUS (-5.2%), THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (-4.8%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-2.9%), CHESS (-2.8%), JUST IN TIME (-2.5%), MAMMA MIA! (-2.5%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-2.3%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-2.3%), THE OUTSIDERS (-1.9%), THE LION KING (-0.9%), ART (-0.6%), HADESTOWN (-0.6%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), BEETLEJUICE (-0.2%), WAITING FOR GODOT (-0.1%),

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With this, we are now halfway through this very thin 2025-26 Broadway season. 

Okay start for MARJORIE PRIME.

Can TWO STRANGERS afford to take out a priority loan to get them to the Tony noms? 

Yolanda Adams and the return of the Alicia Keys post-show concerts helped out HELL’S KITCHEN once more. 

Happy trails to Trisha Paytas and Alison Luff (for now). 

Also curious about the nut for Two Strangers.  It's a small show so I assume it's not terribly high, but the grosses still seem a bit low.  Word of mouth seems pretty good and they're handing out a lot of rush tickets, so I'm curious if they've fallen into a hole where they aren't able to raise ticket prices.  Then again, if they're making a profit or close to it, they might not need to.

The nut on TWO STRANGERS is quite low with a 4 person cast, few crew and a band of 6?  The word of mouth on it is excellent and growing.   The shows ticket prices will now go up.  They ran a specia,l for all preview performances, at reduced costs all over the theater including prime seats.   This show is on its way to hit.

They could use better marketing in general especially online considering the nature of the show. Their ads and front of theater are not appealing.  Time to change from the Pekoe Group, TWO STRANGERS.  (they helped kill Wonderful World, Days of Wine and Roses, The Notebook etc.)

Updated On: 11/25/25 at 02:17 PM

Also, we will need to wait two weeks to see the true impact Leslie’s departure has on HAMILTON since he’s doing his last three shows today and tomorrow, and then it’s the holiday weekend.

Did they say who was coming in as Burr after Leslie? I was going to assume Jared Dixon would come back, but I could also see them riding out the holiday weekend with understudies and the new Burr will start next Tuesday 

Running costs are just under 600

 

 

Ensemble1698878795 said: "I hear Two Strangers is like 450-475K to run weekly. The aren't losing. But they aren't smashing either.

CoffeeBreak said: "The nut on TWO STRANGERS is quite low with a 4 person cast, few crew and a band of 6? The word of mouth on it is excellent and growing. The shows ticket prices will now go up. They ran a specia,l for all preview performances, at reduced costs all over the theater including prime seats. This show is on its way to hit.



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Updated On: 11/25/25 at 03:14 PM

But that was 15 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, $700k in 2011 is comparable to well over $1mil today. 

Ensemble1698878795 said: "I hear Two Strangers is like 450-475K to run weekly. The aren't losing. But they aren't smashing either.

CoffeeBreak said: "The nut on TWO STRANGERS is quite low with a 4 person cast, few crew and a band of 6? The word of mouth on it is excellent and growing. The shows ticket prices will now go up. They ran a specia,l for all preview performances, at reduced costs all over the theater including prime seats. This show is on its way to hit.



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It's the clear front-runner for Best New Musical. They'll hold out unless something shocking gets announced for the Spring.

"In addition, the fixed weekly operating costs of Two Strangers are estimated to be $480,577. Adjusting for inflation, the show should cost less money to run each week than any other new commercial musical on Broadway since at least the start of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marchershberg/2025/11/17/two-strangers-arrives-on-broadway-in-a-perfect-storm/

I think Two Strangers follows the same path as Maybe Happy Ending, growing its audience organically by positive word of mouth. 

MadsonMelo said: "Wondering the weekly costs of Chess because they are making MONEY!"

Per r*ddit bway gross reports it is $900k,

In other threads/other spaces people couldn't figure out how Queen could close pulling $1 million, as it did the prior week. But with this nearly $200k plummet, and Winter 2026 looming large, it's quite clear. Has anyone reported a ballpark nut? Did they ever come close?  Is it really $1.2 million? I cannot imagine believing you could pull that, other than in a mega-star led show like the Midler Dolly or Gyllenhaal whatever. 

CoffeeBreak said: "MadsonMelo said: "suzcap said: "MadsonMelo said: "Wondering the weekly costs of Chess because they are making MONEY!"

Per r*ddit bway gross reports it is $900k,"

Oh, that's great for them!"

The man running those numbers is consistently under and off."

Then please share with all of us what the numbers should be for each show.