Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/1/26

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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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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.

Updated On: 3/3/26 at 01:53 PM

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. 

 

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.

I think Six needs to start looking for an off-Broadway theater because dang not good

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

 

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!

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. 

Updated On: 3/3/26 at 09:28 PM

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

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.

Agree with the other takes that Betsy Wolfe is simply not up to snuff compared to Megan Hilty, but I think the show is ultimately more difficult to stunt cast than some folks perceive it to be. Both leads are a hell of a sing, you’re running around like a crazy person, and you’re also dealing with quick costume and prosthetic changes from beginning to end. The only roles you could feasibly stunt cast are Viola and maybe Ernest. Mad and Hel aren’t exactly “slot in a random celebrity” parts; they’re not Roxie and Velma. You need someone up to the task.

I don't think the DBH numbers have much, if anything, to do with Hilty being gone. This show was never going to be a "run for half decade or more" show. It's based on a campy niche movie. It's not broadly appealing IP like The Outsiders and Moulin Rouge and others and didn't capture the zeitgeist like Hadestown, Dear Evan Hansen, Six and others. The fact that it has done as well as it has for nearly a year and a half is pretty impressive.

On another note, I remain amazed at how well Hadestown has turned into a stunt casting show. I never thought it could keep popping back up in the grosses Chicago-style but it might be even better than Chicago now at getting the right type of stunt casting (obviously Chicago is doing well at the moment with that too but has had some lapses).