Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/26

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/26

Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:03pm

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/17/2026 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: OH, MARY! (15.8%), THE BALUSTERS (7.2%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (2.9%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (2.1%), JUST IN TIME (1.9%), MJ (1.2%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1.1%), CHICAGO (0.7%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (0.5%), FALLEN ANGELS (0.4%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (0.3%), ALADDIN (0.1%), PROOF (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-19.3%), BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (-6.6%), SCHMIGADOON! (-5.6%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-4.9%), CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (-3.9%), THE FEAR OF 13 (-3.9%), & JULIET (-2.8%), GIANT (-2.8%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-2.6%), HADESTOWN (-2.5%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-2.2%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (-2%), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (-1.4%), BECKY SHAW (-0.5%), HAMILTON (-0.5%), CHESS (-0.4%),

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/17/26

Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:11pm

It’s time beaches …it’s time

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:11pm

Happy trails to Darren Criss and Claire Kwon at MAYBE HAPPY ENDING. Expect their numbers to plummet immediately.

Tom Felton was on vacation this week from POTTER, hence their major drop.

"Gitchie gitchie Betsy Aidem / Squibby Squibby Squibby June."

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:14pm

Literally had zero idea that Celebrity Autobiography was running already until I read through this grosses report. Clearly nobody else seems to know that, either.

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:38pm

WldKingdomHM said: "It’s time beaches …it’s time"

Same with Six and &Juliet

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:43pm

Celebrity Autobiography seems like it could get abridged.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:46pm

Assuming it's not a misprint, is the average ticket price for Celebrity Autobiography of $15.22 a new record low?

Can someone remind me -- do comps get included in both the average ticket price calculation and the % of capacity?

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:52pm

"Assuming it's not a misprint, is the average ticket price for Celebrity Autobiography of $15.22 a new record low?"

The Blonde in the Thunderbird, which ran for three weeks in summer 2005, had an average ticket price of $11.02 in its second week.

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:52pm

mikem said: "Assuming it's not a misprint, is the average ticket price for Celebrity Autobiography of $15.22 a new record low?

Can someone remind me -- do comps get included in both the average ticket price calculation and the % of capacity?"

It has to be. They're essentially just giving out comps to get people in the theater.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:54pm

Kad said: "Celebrity Autobiography seems like it could get abridged."

Honestly, I think going in they knew this was just a place filler and not meant to blow up the box office. They also only announced it like two weeks ago and the theatre was just assembled with the marquee and such on Monday. I assume each cast member is taking a small amount of money per performance to just goof around.

Meanwhile, BEACHES can’t even GIVE tickets away. I haven’t seen comped Broadway tickets left on the table with this degree of frequency since BAD CINDERELLA

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#11

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:55pm

It's a really weird thing. It was only announced two weeks ago and there's barely been any kind of major marketing or press push. People genuinely do not seem to realize it's even happening.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#12

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 2:56pm

WldKingdomHM said: "It’s time beaches …it’s time"

Beaches averaged 717 people per performance. The balance between evening and matinee shows likely means the weeknight shows had roughly 400 in attendance.

#13

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 3:02pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "

Tom Felton was on vacation this week from POTTER, hence their major drop.

"

Huge drop. I wonder what he is getting paid as this drop shows that he is the reason a majority of people have been seeing the show.

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#14

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 3:04pm

ACL2006 said: "WldKingdomHM said: "It’s time beaches …it’s time"

Beaches averaged 717 people per performance. The balance between evening and matinee shows likely means the weeknight shows had roughly 400 in attendance."

Just pull the plug already

#15

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 3:09pm

How much longer is Netflix willing to lose money on Stranger Things?

#16

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 3:10pm

Beaches closing Sunday! Announcement coming

#17

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 3:22pm

ElephantLoveMedley said: "Literally had zero idea thatCelebrity Autobiographywas running already until I read through this grosses report. Clearlynobody else seems to know that, either."

Same. Wow $15 average ticket price! I’m guessing a lot of people got comps.

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:03pm

Where did this Celebrity Autobiography thing even come from?? I remarked to a friend of mine in the press that I had never heard of it until the other day (which was opening night?). And they remarked that they hadn't heard anything about it until they got their press invitation! Their RSVP was never responded to either. I mean...where is the advertising? Where is the effort? Where is the anything? There are some utterly fabulous people in the cast lineup, but maybe tell folks that they're in a show and what it's about?

This week is the spring road conference, so I imagine Beaches was just holding on for this week when those presenters were in town.

Elsewhere, pretty rough numbers for Six, & Juliet, Stranger Things. Gatsby and The Outsiders have both softened a lot. Just a blip, or are they entering into a freefall like Death Becomes Her that they wont be able to correct?

It's also concerning that Tony darlings like Schimgadoon, The Lost Boys, and The Jellicle Ball haven't really seen their grosses reliably skyrocket since nominations. Hopefully Tony performances will change things.

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:08pm

Forgot to mention... this week (ending 5/24) is the final week of the Broadway fiscal season, and a new total gross record is expected to be set once more. (Although it'll be a MUCH lesser jump than 2023-24 to 2024-25, which was a 22% increase.)

The way the numbers are trending at the moment, 2026-27 is on track to be a lower-grossing season, but A-list celebrities in some shows' casts can help ease some of the pain. The district is gonna need bigger names than the season about to conclude.

"Gitchie gitchie Betsy Aidem / Squibby Squibby Squibby June."

Updated On: 5/19/26 at 04:08 PM

#20

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:13pm

WithoutATrace said: ""Assuming it's not a misprint, is the average ticket price for Celebrity Autobiography of $15.22 a new record low?"

The Blonde in the Thunderbird, which ran for three weeks in summer 2005, had an average ticket price of $11.02 in its second week."

The iconic Home for the Holidays's average for their 2nd week was $13.51 in 2017. And their best ever week was $34.68...with a capacity of 22.83%...on the week of Christmas. Not as ignominious as Blonde & the Thunderbird, but one for the books nonetheless.

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#21

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:14pm

Home for the Holidays!!!! Another doozy.

#22

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:21pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "Forgot to mention...this week (ending 5/24) is the final week of the Broadway fiscal season, and a new total gross record is expected to be set once more. (Although it'll be a MUCH lesser jump than 2023-24 to 2024-25, which was a 22% increase.)

The way the numbers are trending at the moment, 2026-27 is on track to be a lower-grossing season, but A-list celebrities in some shows' casts can help ease some of the pain. The district is gonna need bigger names than the season about to conclude."

well, here's hoping they can get some good ones. maybe also a stunt-cast or two

#23

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:35pm

Noticing Chess hasn't recovered from its slide since March 22nd despite everyone in and the Tony nominations with capacity at 73% and box office under $1M. I've had a bit of a theory forming about that for a couple of weeks.

Chess hasn't been over 90% capacity or $1.3M since week ending 22nd March. they announced Lea was leaving 20th March.

A friend was telling me a few weeks ago they saw a couple of people on Facebook, very much regular person land, say it was sad Lea had left the show, not leaving in June, left.

Makes me think a lot of people saw the headline and missed the date and thought she'd left because it seems too much of a coincidence the real slide in capacity and box office started the week after the announcement of Lea leaving the show and its never recovered.

#24

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 4:38pm

TheGingerBreadMan said: "How much longer is Netflix willing to lose money onStranger Things?"

It's Netflix. I don't think they are too worried.

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#25

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Posted: 5/19/26 at 5:17pm

And quietly, Death of a Salesman has turned into a monster hit. I wonder if they will try to extend, or if that’s possible. How much money would the play need to make to recoup?

The other news looks kind of grim, at least for now. The nominated musicals got their bump last week but that’s it for now.

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