Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 1:46pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/1/2026 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.
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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHESS (3.9%), BUG (3.2%), WICKED (2.4%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (0.4%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE GREAT GATSBY (-16.9%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-16.2%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-15.2%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-13.7%), OH, MARY! (-12.7%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-10.9%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-10.8%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-10.7%), ALADDIN (-10.6%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-10.4%), & JULIET (-10.3%), MJ (-9.6%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-8.9%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-8.5%), ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION (-8.1%), THE LION KING (-6.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-4.7%), CHICAGO (-2.8%), EVERY BRILLIANT THING (-2.5%), JUST IN TIME (-1.5%), HAMILTON (-1.3%), RAGTIME (-1.3%), HADESTOWN (-0.2%),
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#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 1:53pm
Every Brilliant Thing looks set to be profitable rather quickly if those grosses continue. I imagine it'll crack 1 million in the next few weeks.
Book of Mormon has been seeing its lowest grosses since its first weeks of previews lately... not a great sign.
Nor is DBH's steadily declining grosses since the new year.
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 1:53pm
Rough week all around.
That DEATH BECOMES HER NUMBER is pretty grim. I’m also curious to see how much potential money that GATSBY lost when Eva delayed her return and so the Jeremy/Eva reunion was off.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING’s biggest cost is Radcliffe. I could easily see this show recouping in 13 weeks.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 1:55pm
Note that while this is a very rough report, especially for most of the musicals, this week of the year is perhaps the weakest for Broadway as recent history tells us. The numbers should start climbing from here until about mid-July if trends were to continue.
Monday night performances were cancelled because of Winter Storm Hernando.
Happy trails to Meg Donnelly, Tam Mutu, Lencia Kebede, Allie Trimm, Jordan Litz, Brad Oscar, NaTasha Yvette Williams, the full principal cast of HADESTOWN, and longtime SIX alternates Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert and Sierra Fermin. Julia Schade also conducted her final performance this weekend in the aforementioned SIX.
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:09pm
A show in Circle in the Square just made more than a show at the Gershwin- I never thought I would see the day!
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:11pm
The numbers for Chicago remain extraordinary. By the way, what are the weekly operating costs for Chicago on a normal basis?
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:14pm
Only six shows begin previews in the coming three weeks before the floodgates open at the end of March - one this week, two next week, and three the week after.
Colleges will likely start having spring breaks over the next two weeks and public schools won’t have theirs until April around Easter.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:16pm
Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The numbers for Chicago remain extraordinary. By the way, what are the weekly operating costs for Chicago on a normal basis?"
Considering they canned a bunch of long-tenured cast members to curtail costs at the same time they brought in a stunt cast, it’s probably hard to estimate.
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:40pm
Re Death Becomes Her: Is Wolfe still only contracted through April? She had it listed in her Instagram bio, but it’s no longer there. They need some stunt casting or a new marketing strategy.
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 2:58pm
Surprised BOOK OF MORMON has never stunt cast. I'd have to imagine this could be their final year.
witchoftheeast2
Leading Actor Joined: 9/25/24
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 5:56pm
I think Six needs to start looking for an off-Broadway theater because dang not good
Ensemble1698878795
Broadway Star Joined: 11/1/23
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 6:07pm
ACL2006 said: "Surprised BOOK OF MORMON has never stunt cast. I'd have to imagine this could be their final year."
Remember that BOM started 15 years ago. Their running costs and weekly is no where near what it takes to mount a show or keep it open these days. They have a loonnng runway.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 8:23pm
Call_me_jorge said: "ReDeath Becomes Her: IsWolfestill only contracted through April? She had it listed in her Instagram bio, but it’s no longer there. They need some stunt casting or a new marketing strategy."
I think Death Becomes Her needs two Mormon Wives lol
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 8:52pm
Call_me_jorge said: "ReDeath Becomes Her: IsWolfestill only contracted through April? She had it listed in her Instagram bio, but it’s no longer there. They need some stunt casting or a new marketing strategy."
DBH really misses Hilty. Wolfe is simply not funny and wrong for the role. Luckily, the rest of the terrific cast mostly Simard, along with Sieber and Williams is intact for at least another 3 months.
PipingHotPiccolo
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/22
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 9:23pm
I know nothing about Wolfe's performance, and Hilty was truly something special, but the idea that Hilty's absence is hurting the box office--and not just winter months following a year when its target audience has mostly seen the show--is just wild. Hilty was out quite a bit, including a weekly absence, and the show did fine. And even if Wolfe is doing a barely passable job up there, that wouldnt impact ticket sales from the 11 people who read message boards and would know it.
Shows run out of steam after a while. Hope DBH can turn it around but im not surprised that one year of theater people and tourists was all it could really muster---still a healthy run!
mridley2
Understudy Joined: 1/6/12
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 9:28pm
re: DBH & M. Hilty. She'll be back! After the out of town try out(was there only 1 in Chicago)? and the 1 year plus broadway run, Hilty needed a much deserved break. I believe she has relatively young children..
I expect a summer or perhaps Fall return for Hilty.
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 9:28pm
I think Hilty mattered to the DBH box office not as an individual name but as the completing part of that original cast. Without her, now it's just mostly the original cast and Wolfe may never come into her own to replicate the original chemistry.
chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/3/26 at 10:41pm
fwiw I talked to someone that worked customer service and she said that poeple DID call in to get get their tickets exchanged when Hilty was out for an unexpected absence, and they mostly knew her from Smash. I don't know if that alone is enough to account for the drop in grosses (and I agree with Kad about missing the "complete set"), but she does hold some bit of name recognition.
pablitonizer
Leading Actor Joined: 4/8/21
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/4/26 at 9:52am
Awful numbers for DBH :( - Nothing against Wolfe, but the show is not the same without Hilty imo. I recenly saw Wolfe and it felt a complete different vibe from 2025 shows, but can't explain why. Something big was definitely missing
Merkin2
Joined: 12/2/25
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/4/26 at 11:02am
I think a stumbling block for DBH was not doing a wholesale replacement of the core four cast members back in January. It puts Betsy in the position of having to replace a critically acclaimed lead while the rest of the originals are still there - that absence would be felt. Plus, the contract extensions certainly cannot be cheap. I think the business move would be not renewing Simard, Sieber, and Williams if business is tanking and they can find someone big to replace at least one of them.
OMM, Hadestown, and Wicked usually do wholesale replacements, and that prevents the awkward learning curve of only one new cast. For OMM, this is especially helpful because it allows for the new cast to form their own dynamic and shorthand together to maintain the tight ensemble nature of the show.
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26
Posted: 3/4/26 at 11:05am
quizking101 said: "I think a stumbling block for DBH was not doing a wholesale replacement of the core four cast members back in January. It puts Betsy in the position of having to replace a critically acclaimed lead while the rest of the originals are still there - that absence would be felt. Plus, the contract extensions certainly cannot be cheap. I think the business move would be not renewing Simard, Sieber, and Williams if business is tanking and they can find someone big to replace at least one of them.
OMM, Hadestown, and Wicked usually do wholesale replacements, and that prevents the awkward learning curve of only one new cast. For OMM, this is especially helpful because it allows for the new cast to form their own dynamic and shorthand together to maintain the tight ensemble nature of the show."
SIX as well.
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