Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/26

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: PROOF (99.8%), SCHMIGADOON! (92.5%), THE BALUSTERS (85.7%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (81.6%), CHESS (17.6%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (6.6%), THE FEAR OF 13 (5%), CHICAGO (4.9%), THE LION KING (4.1%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (3.4%), OH, MARY! (3.2%), BECKY SHAW (2.5%), FALLEN ANGELS (2.5%), ALADDIN (0.7%), EVERY BRILLIANT THING (0.6%), GIANT (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: SIX: THE MUSICAL (-9.2%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-8.5%), BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (-7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-5.7%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-5.5%), THE LOST BOYS (-5.4%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-5.2%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-3.9%), MJ (-3%), THE OUTSIDERS (-2.9%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-1.8%), & JULIET (-1.2%), CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (-1.2%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-1.1%), THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (-1%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-1%), WICKED (-0.9%), HADESTOWN (-0.8%), TITANÍQUE (-0.4%), HAMILTON (-0.2%), JUST IN TIME (-0.1%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-0.1%),

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Kad said: "There are going to be quite a few empty theaters for the 26-27 season."

And assuming next season is as light as this one was, they might stay empty for quite some time. 

Wow, Chicago is killing it these days.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "I'm not too worried about the new shows (Beaches aside). They all ran pretty steep discounts for previews, so I'll judge when they officially open.”

Post-opening won’t make a difference. The new shows are all competing for the same local audience and they don’t want to pay those prices.

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Maybe. But I want to see, for example, what The Lost Boys can do with an 8 show week without selling $25 tickets. Maybe you’re right and capacity will just plummet this week but time will tell!

 

Beaches is done for.
Chicago should just give Whitney $$ at this point and have her extend

I'm very interested to see what happens to Chess's grosses when Lea Michele leaves. I'm a bit surprised they're even replacing her given how much they dropped when she was out. I like JoJo a lot, but does she have enough pull?

 

I'm also wondering if we might be nearing the end of the road for Death Becomes Her. The numbers aren't especially bad, but when you factor in what sound like incredibly high running costs, they could be in trouble.

 

And awards season truly can't come soon enough for Two Strangers, which needs a major shot in the arm.

I'm very interested to see what happens to Chess's grosses when Lea Michele leaves. I'm a bit surprised they're even replacing her given how much they dropped when she was out. I like JoJo a lot, but does she have enough pull?

I think she wants to spend the Summer with her family, so it was probably her choice. It is really interesting how bad sales plummet when she is gone, so they are going to have to figure that out. JoJo, while talented, isn't comparable in terms of sales if Moulin Rouge was any indication. 

BEACHES is nearly double the gross of some of those MAYBE HAPPY ENDING preview weeks, which I'm pretty sure means that it win twice as many Tonys and run twice as long.

Updated On: 4/15/26 at 03:22 PM

Do we even know if any cast members of Death Becomes Her are leaving soon? I agree that a big cast refresh might be the only big advertising strategy they could successfully leverage to boost sales at this point. But then again, this would also means they must get a really exciting cast together. I kept expecting sales to improve as we left February...but yikes. This thing needs help.

I'm also quite shocked that Cats didn't break the million dollar mark yet, but I guess lots of comps were in play last week for the final couple press performances and opening night. So they will assumedly have a big jump this week after the stellar reviews.

Thew new musicals are all in danger territory. I feel sad for Beaches. I don't know how they even finish the limited run. They just aren't in the right theater. Schmigadoon has a similarly low avg ticket price but is at least most selling out at the cheaper price point. Still, they are probably roughly $200K below the weekly operating cost, so there is a ton of ground to make up here. Two Strangers is basically stuck in the same place. If they win the Tony it will juice things...but for how long? I think the fact that its a rom com type show doesnt lend a sense of urgency, or a "must see" vibe to ticket buyers. I'm not sure that a Tony win could change that, at least not in the long term. The Lost Boys feels like it has potential to grow. But given how expensive it is to run, I could see it falling into the same trap that Death Becomes Her is in, as it eventually ends up hovering around a decent gross that just isnt enough to cover the approx $950k a week operating cost.

uncageg said: "I wonder if "Beaches" may experience a slight uptick when the snowbirds return from Florida. Kind of their demographic. I think they start returning Between May and June.Just a thought."

I don't know if it will be an "uptick" vs just a slightly different group of people being in town. In the same way that they might get a slight uptick today from that TV appearance, and then the grosses will drop again.

If it remains open through the end of May, that would be a huge achievement.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "uncageg said: "I wonder if "Beaches" may experience a slight uptick when the snowbirds return from Florida. Kind of their demographic. I think they start returning Between May and June.Just a thought."

I don't know if it will be an "uptick" vs just a slightly different group of people being in town. In the same way that they might get a slight uptick today from thatTV appearance, and then the grosses will drop again.

If it remains openthrough the end of May, that would be a huge achievement."

 

That was my other thought. Would it still be open. "uptick" was the only word I could think of!

 

bwaylyric said: "It makes me so happy to see thatOperation Mincemeat is still going strong even with the replacement cast."

Same. It really is the little show that could and has bucked all expectations. Even if it doesn’t run as long as the London production and peter out come 2027, it is undoubtedly a modern success story