Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/2/25

[Rob]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:01pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/2/2025 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: GYPSY (19.3%), OH, MARY! (1.8%), ENGLISH (0.5%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CHICAGO (-17.5%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-17.2%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-12.9%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-11.7%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-8.7%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-7.6%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-7.5%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-6.3%), HADESTOWN (-6%), REDWOOD (-5.9%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-5.3%), & JULIET (-5.1%), THE LION KING (-4.5%), SUNSET BLVD. (-4.5%), ALADDIN (-3.9%), MJ (-3.5%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (-3.4%), HAMILTON (-3.3%), THE OUTSIDERS (-1.4%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-0.7%),

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[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:04pm

Ouch.

[willep]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:18pm

That Othello number is just insane.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:19pm

Rough week for pretty much everyone not named OTHELLO, which has been printing money since the first presale began. 

Happy trails to ENGLISH and most of the previous year’s principals at WICKED. Tonight in particular should be a fun night at the Gershwin — some history-making, new faces, Oscars aftermath. 

Most of the newer shows are doing okay for now, I would guess?

Hopefully this is rock bottom for the calendar year, and the spring and summer give us some better numbers. 

[Ensemble1665759202]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:22pm

Oof pretty dire across the board with a couple exceptions. That time of year I guess.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:23pm

Compared to the others first two weeks, MINCEMEAT is out performing all the new musicals this  season.

Updated On: 3/4/25 at 01:23 PM

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:28pm

Didn't have the first week of previews for Othello outperforming Wicked on my 2025 Bingo Card

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:36pm

I wouldn’t go into gambling then. It was always going to be a juggernaut with those prices. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 1:50pm

willep said: "That Othello number is just insane."

$362 average ticket price is ridiculous.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 2:33pm

Othello - WOW!!!!!!!

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 3:27pm

That OTHELLO number is indeed obscene and shows the power of casting two major stars in a relatively known classic IP.

I’m honestly expecting a good chunk of the weekly dollars to go to the three major star-driven plays (OTHELLO, GLENGARRY, and GNAGL) once they all open. I’m not counting DORIAN GRAY in the mix because it looks like they overshot the runaway with their initial prices and that may have turned people off.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 3:38pm

They are going the Prima Facie route.  Once it begins word of mouth will push people  to Snook's performance and the production.  She's the frontrunner to win the Tony.

Updated On: 3/5/25 at 03:38 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 3:41pm

And don't forget the money being spent on Vanya and Streetcar.  A whole lotta star power in NYC these next few months!

 

But those ticket sales, goodness!  I mean we all knew it was gonna make bank, but to see it in black and white is another story.   And I kinda hate whomever would actually spend 900 bucks on a single ticket.   And can they be my daddy?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 4:41pm

Headlines about Othello breaking box office records for the Barrymore are already exhausting. It’s not impressive when your tickets are THAT expensive.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 4:43pm

Other than the que sera sera (Othello and its ilk) shows, it seems to me most of the "analysis" posted in this thread relate to statistically insignificant observations. We are, as noted, at or close to the nadir of the season, but many of the numbers referenced are either among those that never are useful tools because they are abstract (grosses as such, % capacity, and so on), or meaningless because they are viewed without any context. Thus, as an example, no effort is made to distinguish the magnitude of revenue drops (for instance, Wicked's at 7.5% with a solid price per ticket and a sellout, vs Six at 4 times as high, with a weak price and lousy attendance). [The same sorts of statistical differentiation makes a large number of the shows predictively meaningless. Digging down is fun for more than building sand castles. :-)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 5:20pm

And some of us are just happy looking at the overall picture.  

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 5:25pm

ACL2006 said: "willep said: "That Othello number is just insane."

$362 average ticket price is ridiculous."

When rich idiots stop paying these terrorist prices, producers will stop charging them. 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 5:40pm

Given the doomsayers predicting no possible scenario in which MHE could survive (a mere couple of months ago) based on its preview business, I find its gross the most amazing on the list.  It basically held its own in a deadly week.  Now if it can just start to sell more full price tickets.  Either way, at this point, it is pretty safe to predict that MHE will be playing in every regional theatre and college in the country for decades to come.  Good for them!

Othello demonstrates (as I am sure GLAGN will in a few weeks) that, if a huge star (or 2) wants to do Broadway, but can only commit for a limited time, there are enough people who will pay extraordinary prices to see them (enabling the investors to get back their investment, with a small bonus no doubt).  I would love to know what percentage of those people paying those sums are real theatregoers or simply people with money, who want to be able to say they were there.  I think it is a shame that real regular theatregoers are priced out of attendance unless they happen to be lucky enough to win the lottery.  I don't need a lecture on the reality of life.  It's a reality, but it's a shame. 

 

 

 

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 6:19pm

CHICAGO needs to get a name in there soon.

[yyys]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 6:26pm

MOULIN ROUGE losing steam? might be closing before end of the year?

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 6:47pm

Jarethan said: "Given the doomsayers predicting no possible scenario in which MHE could survive (a mere couple of months ago) based on its preview business, I find its gross the most amazing on the list. Itbasically held its own in a deadly week. Now if it can just start to sell more full price tickets. Either way, at this point, it is pretty safe to predict that MHE will be playing in every regional theatre and college in the country for decades to come. Good for them!

"

….and how are they going to do the set and projection designs on a regional budget? The music will live on for sure, but I cannot see a regional production of this ever happening outside of a tour.

 

[Bobster159]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 8:50pm

quizking101 said: "Jarethan said: "Given the doomsayers predicting no possible scenario in which MHE could survive (a mere couple of months ago) based on its preview business, I find its gross the most amazing on the list. Itbasically held its own in a deadly week. Now if it can just start to sell more full price tickets. Either way, at this point, it is pretty safe to predict that MHE will be playing in every regional theatre and college in the country for decades to come. Good for them!

"

….and how are they going to do the set and projection designs on a regional budget? The music will live on for sure, but I cannot see a regional production of this ever happening outside of a tour.

"

MHE doesn't need everything they've thrown at it on Broadway. You could easily do it as a slim chamber piece. However, I don't think it's safe to predict it'll be a licensing hit. It could be, but though it's come back from a very low base, which is impressive, it's hardly a mega-smash; based on what's been published, it's probably no more than breaking even at these grosses. Any hindrance to licensing isn't the Broadway scenery, though.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 3/5/25 at 12:58pm

quizking101 said: "Jarethan said: "Given the doomsayers predicting no possible scenario in which MHE could survive (a mere couple of months ago) based on its preview business, I find its gross the most amazing on the list. Itbasically held its own in a deadly week. Now if it can just start to sell more full price tickets. Either way, at this point, it is pretty safe to predict that MHE will be playing in every regional theatre and college in the country for decades to come. Good for them!
….and how are they going to do the set and projection designs on a regional budget? The music will live on for sure, but I cannot see a regional production of this ever happening outside of a tour.

"Haven't you learned anything from all the revisionist productions over the last 2 decades?  If the raw material is good, they will find a way.

 

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 3/5/25 at 2:23pm

Jarethan said: "quizking101 said: "Jarethan said: "Given the doomsayers predicting no possible scenario in which MHE could survive (a mere couple of months ago) based on its preview business, I find its gross the most amazing on the list. Itbasically held its own in a deadly week. Now if it can just start to sell more full price tickets. Either way, at this point, it is pretty safe to predict that MHE will be playing in every regional theatre and college in the country for decades to come. Good for them!
….and how are they going to do the set and projection designs on a regional budget? The music will live on for sure, but I cannot see a regional production of this ever happening outside of a tour.

"Haven't you learned anything from all the revisionist productions over the last 2 decades? If the raw material is good, they will find a way.

"Yes.  This is correct.   Hardly a smash.  This will have to be scaled way down for a tour.  It indeed did not need all the bells and whistles for Broadway.  Over direction without fully trusting the material.  This is barely breaking even with the technical costs, if it is.  Still.  Regionals will do small similiar copied version of this and the Korean production it pulled from. 
 

Othello has the highest numbers .  But, being week 3 of ifs run, MINCEMEAT has the most impressive numbers of the new musicals (at this part of their runs) this year.  It’s the hit so far. 
 

it othello worth the cost of the ticket?