Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/10/26

Schmigadoon and Lost Boys both seem to have gotten sizable boosts from their Tony nods. 

A lot of interesting numbers this week. Seems like anything for the "kids" was crushed this week. Wicked, Aladdin, Six. We know why Chicago dropped this week, but still incredible.

My goodness, BEACHES, close it up already.

With Book of Mormon canceling all of its performances last week, I wonder which shows those theatergoers chose to see instead.

I’m impressed by Every Brilliant Thing’s grosses as it got the 2nd highest overall. I looked at ticket prices next week and the week after and orchestra prices are $894 and $994. I wonder if it will break the Hudson theater record?

Mr. Wormwood said: "Nice jumps for Schmigadoon, The Lost Boys, Rocky Horror and Titanique. Tony noms make a difference, at least in the short term. Less so for Two Strangers but it's been open awhile. It needs the win.

I know it was a huge overperformer last week but that Chicago drop is wild. Casting is everything for that particular show.

Just waiting on the official word for Beaches.

Chess strikes me as an end of summer closing.

Aladdin has been looking weaker and weaker except for big tourist weeks. I wonder when Disney will pull the plug. Probably not until something is ready to go right in.

Six has looked rough forever. I know its cost is low by my goodness. 55% capacity and lower than Becky Shaw and Beaches

Obviously it's not in an trouble but just a note that this is the lowest grossing non-Covid era, full week for Wicked since May 2004"

Do we see a world in which Wicked closes anytime soon? 

I am flabbergasted that Death is filling the Winter Garden, which is an awful theatre for any drama.  I don't know what makes a 'legendary' production, but I am guessing that this will be viewed in the future as a legendary production.  It will actually be a shame if it loses the Best Revival Tony because of Rudin hate.  

How much money are the producers of Six going to lose before they conclude it is time to move it off-broadway or close it?

Happy to see that Just in Time filled the theatre and the grosses went up.  I guess, when all is said and done, this will be the biggest hit musical from last season, despite not getting a Tony nomination for Best Musical, which is usually pretty easy.

 

What happened to Oh! Mary!  I expected every Maya Rudolph performance to sell-out.  Was she out at all?

Updated On: 5/12/26 at 03:24 PM

MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "Nearly every major Tony nominated show got at least some kind of bump. But what's weird is the decrease for Fallen Angels. It's not by a super alarming amount, but it's still strange that a show that got so many nominations, including in the very competitive Revival of a Play category, actually fell by over $60K. Did Roundabout have some sort of special night(s) this past week that had a sizeable chunk of comps?

A little worried that Cats still didn't quite break the $1 million mark even after the Tony nominations. It feels like they are just hovering around their breakeven. This perhaps speaks to the difficulty in getting the general public to understand the concept behind ballroom? Perhaps a really engaging Tony performance can boost their sales more."

Fallen Angels has already been addressed by another commenter, but just wanted to add that the rest of their run is completely sold out. This seems to have become a semi-hot ticket, at least at the prices they were charging. Curious to see if this reflects in their grosses in the next couple of weeks.

re: cats, I don't think it's too surprising that people aren't getting the concept when they're not really doing anything to make that happen. I had no idea what was going on with the in-memoriam-but-not-actually-in-memoriam slideshow of people at the beginning of the second act and then later found out that I was supposed to watch a documentary as homework beforehand. Whoops!

Ptero2 said: "re: cats, I don't think it's too surprising that people aren't getting the concept when they're not really doing anything to make that happen. I had no idea what was going on with the in-memoriam-but-not-actually-in-memoriam slideshow of people at the beginning of the second act and then later found out that I was supposed to watch a documentary as homework beforehand. Whoops!"

I've never watched Paris is Burning, though I did watch Pose.  I don't think any prior knowledge of ballroom is necessary to enjoy this production, and the act 2 opener was pretty easy to understand without actually knowing who many of the folx were who were shown. My two pre-teens only knew my few sentence explanation of ballroom and it's one of their favorite things they've seen and they fully understood the dramatic arcs the production created.  

It does rankle me that CATS hasn’t taken off completely, and also some people may have requested a refund since André was out sick all week (Phumzile Sojola and Ken Ard rotated in his place). André being out for any performance, let alone a whole week is concerning because his work ethic is strong enough where, if the theatre flooded, he’d vogue in the puddles. (Hyperbole - but you get it). One performance was also subsidized by TDF for graduating high schoolers

It’s a $16M production with an $850K breakeven every week. They are just about at par every week, but not exceeding it by much and any profit is likely eaten up by advertising/incidentals. In terms of exposure, they did do GMA a few weeks ago and are scheduled for THE VIEW on 5/28 (tickets are available) so that can help.

My bigger concern with this production is the departure of the swings and covers, cast injuries, and the fact that they have yet to find anyone to replace the lost covers, which is causing some of the featured ensemble to perform in cover tracks. I would’ve thought they would’ve maxed out on swings/covers from the jump, or at least after opening, but there seems to be a struggle finding the right performers to fit the roles and so the ones who are there are covering anywhere from 6-12 roles (specifically the males).

Updated On: 5/12/26 at 04:34 PM

Some have speculated that Beaches is hanging on until the spring road conference next week, but at this point they would just be peddling damaged goods. The production has demonstrated it has almost no selling appeal. Nobody is going to book a show that got critically trashed, snubbed by awards, and has been playing to half-empty houses. 

Updated On: 5/12/26 at 04:47 PM

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "quizking101 said: "Also, I honestly think BEACHES is just staying open out of spite at this point. They are hawking their new Thursday matinees starting 5/28.

I should live so long…"

Yea a 1pm matinee… whhhhhhhy? Close already"

Well…if they have a 1pm matinee, that leaves you JUST enough time to walk out at intermission and go catch a 3pm summer Thursday matinee of OH MARY