Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#1
Posted: 5/27/26 at 3:44pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/24/2026 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: CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY (59%), DEATH BECOMES HER (20.2%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (14.4%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (14%), BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (13.5%), CHICAGO (13.2%), THE GREAT GATSBY (12.3%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (10.1%), & JULIET (8%), CHESS (8%), TITANÍQUE (7.3%), THE OUTSIDERS (6.1%), CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (5.9%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (5.9%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (4.7%), SCHMIGADOON! (4.4%), WICKED (3.9%), THE LION KING (3.6%), THE LOST BOYS (3.1%), GIANT (2.8%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (2.7%), HADESTOWN (2.6%), PROOF (2.6%), MJ (2.3%), THE FEAR OF 13 (1.5%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (1.2%), BECKY SHAW (1.1%), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1%), ALADDIN (1%), JUST IN TIME (0.8%), HAMILTON (0.7%), FALLEN ANGELS (0.2%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-6%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-3.1%), THE BALUSTERS (-2.6%),
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#2
Posted: 5/27/26 at 3:51pm
Late report for what was a plentiful Memorial Day weekend.
Happy trails to BEACHES and Daniel Radcliffe, whose show set a new house record for a play last week. Well done.
HAPPY ENDING tumbles as Darren Criss has left the Helperbot Yards. Can’t imagine it lasts a lot longer… but who knows.
2025-26 fiscal year in the books: total of $1,910,903,835 made on Broadway. Another new record to tout at the Tonys despite the numbers consistently slowing down in recent months.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#3
Posted: 5/27/26 at 3:58pm
Happy to see the average ticket price for Celebrity Autobiography up 33%!!!
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#4
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:07pm
111K is nothing celebrate, lowest grossing show - isn't it?
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#5
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:14pm
Highest grossing week for Two Strangers in three months. Love to see it.
eta: corrected my mistake.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#6
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:15pm
Looks like DBH def got a bump from the closing notice.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#7
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:20pm
MemorableUserName said: "Highest grossing week yet for Two Strangers. Love to see it."
this isn’t even remotely true
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#8
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:23pm
THE FEAR OF 13 is turning into such an interesting study in star casting and producing. It doesn't seem to be grabbing on. I suppose it's not about just casting a star, but the right star(s).
Conversely, very interesting to see POTTER back over $1.2mil without Felton.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#9
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:25pm
MemorableUserName said: "Highest grossing week yet for Two Strangers. Love to see it."
No, it's really not. Would it kill you to do a simple google search before you post?
https://playbill.com/production/gross?production=ee56675d-e323-4809-8be8-3451f0350eb9
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#10
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:27pm
Ensemble1665759202 said: "MemorableUserName said: "Highest grossing week yet for Two Strangers. Love to see it."
this isn’t even remotely true"
My bad. I checked the link in the first post in the page but failed to notice the default on the chart is to show the past 12 weeks and not the full run.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#11
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:43pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "2025-26 fiscal year in the books: total of$1,910,903,835made on Broadway. Another new record to tout at the Tonys despite the numbers consistently slowing down in recent months.
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Ah yes - another record breaking year which will also be used to continue justifying pricing out your average audience members.
These numbers are certainly something to look at. I really have no idea how & JULIET is still hanging on at those rates. MHE naturally took a tumble, but really the next few weeks are going to be the indicator of future success. Remember that the show did well for 9 weeks without Criss and amidst racially charged controversy, so I’m not too pressed yet. STRANGER THINGS is also past their sell-by date, but as has been established for months, Netflix has deep pockets and nobody is exactly craving to use the Marquis.
My biggest question mark is TITANIQUE. The fact that the breakeven is a staggering $1M/week and the fact it hasn’t pulled that level with any degree of frequency is making me think announcing the extension was a mistake. Are they really expecting to pick up any Tony Awards? Their best odds are probably in Book of a Musical (as a way to honor Marla, Connie, and Tye in one), and that doesn’t usually boost anyone.
Shoutout to OPERATION MINCEMEAT for not only continuing to hold the line, but staying consistently above the grosses of the original cast by roughly $100K on a weekly basis. I’m not sure what their path to recoupment looks like, but there is definitely some hope here as they’ve since extended through their second anniversary in February 2027
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#12
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:47pm
It's nice to see all four Best Musical nominees up this week.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#13
Posted: 5/27/26 at 4:52pm
dramamama611 said: "111K is nothing celebrate, lowest grossing show - isn't it?"
We call it sarcasm, dear.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#14
Posted: 5/27/26 at 5:13pm
I realize it was a holiday weekend, but it’s still nice to see positive numbers for almost everything - and the exceptions either feel irrelevant (Death of a Salesman’s grosses dropped a bit but are still excellent at a sold out Winter Garden) or expected (Maybe Happy Ending’s decline was predictable in the week after Darren Criss’ second exit from the show).
Maybe Happy Ending will probably have to endure a slow period as attention turns even more to the Tony-nominated shows for a while. But the question, more than before, is whether the musical can survive on its own. I think it’s an excellent, emotionally resonant show that is more likely to appeal to the masses than many musicals, but I could be wrong.
My optimistic comp for it is Hadestown, a show that survived the loss of its original cast and has plugged away for years despite gloomy predictions. Even if box office receipts decline, wouldn’t running costs drop too with Criss gone? But this is where the absence of tourists might hurt. And like most newer musicals, it will have to make money for a while to break even.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#15
Posted: 5/27/26 at 5:27pm
MHE will struggle to have the same kind of casting success as Hadestown has had to keep it fresh. They have found themselves in a position where they have a very limited pool of actors to pull from in terms of name recognition without getting raked over the coals on social media. I do not envy their position...
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#16
Posted: 5/27/26 at 6:00pm
Ptero2 said: "MHE will struggle to have the same kind of casting success as Hadestown has had to keep it fresh. They have found themselves in a position where they have a very limited pool of actors to pull from in terms of name recognition without getting raked over the coals on social media. I do not envy their position..."
I am honestly surprised that the social media police haven’t said anything about the new Claire standby being an African-American woman. They seemed hellbent on decimating ABF for being a non-Asian in the role. Could it be that maybe those loud voices called it a day after Michael Arden doubled down on the assertion that they are robots that could be of any background?
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#17
Posted: 5/27/26 at 6:25pm
I don't think the SJWs have noticed that there's a Black understudy. I'm very curious to see how the show goes if she ever goes on, as I think some of the script may feel very different with a Black character talking about her owner, and I hope I'm overthinking that.
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