Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26

[Rob]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#1

Posted: 5/27/26 at 3:44pm

Click 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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[EDSOSLO858]

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. 

 

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[n2nbaby]

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%!!!

[dramamama611]

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?

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Updated On: 5/27/26 at 04:07 PM

[MemorableUserName]

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.

Updated On: 5/27/26 at 04:14 PM

[skyboy]

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. 

[Ensemble1665759202]

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

[inlovewithjerryherman]

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 $1.1mil without Felton.

Updated On: 5/27/26 at 04:23 PM

[JSquared2]

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

 

[MemorableUserName]

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. 

[quizking101]

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.

"

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

 

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[Mr. Wormwood]

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.

[n2nbaby]

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.

[bear882]

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.

[Ptero2]

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...

[quizking101]

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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[Nettik]

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. 

[Jarethan]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#18

Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:14pm

inlovewithjerryherman said: "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."

I think that Adrien Brody is an excellent actor who deserved both of his Oscars.  That said, he was never really a star.  Other than the two biggies, it seems to me that he was rarely in leading roles...generally relegated to ensemble casts or movies with limited potential.  When this was announced, I wondered whether he would really sell tickets.  Given the subject matter, he clearly sold tickets, just not a lot compared to the other bigger names that have appeared in recent seasons.  

[Ensemble1698878795]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#19

Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:23pm

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 don't think they'll have an issue recasting. Savy Jackson, who is African American, is the new Claire stand by. Though the production fumbled their responses to the outcries, the workshops of this piece were very much "colorblind." The show has caught its wind for being a great Tony Award winning musical. A year later that's simply fact. 

[Jarethan]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#20

Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:24pm

quizking101 said: "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.

"

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

Maybe they are hoping that the number they perform will get people interested in buying tickets.  Decades ago, Smokey Joe's Cafe saw business explode after the Tony Awards, because people loved the number they chose to perform.  I have to admit that I never liked the show; I saw it a second time and thought it was torture.  But it ran for 5 or so years, and has been a huge touring and regional hit, so I am clearly in the minority.  I really do believe that all of that is due to their Tony selection.

What I find amazing is that in the past two weeks, it has grossed about the same as Schmiggadoon, which really does not speak well for Schmigdoon, a new musical vs.a revival of an off-Broadway show that closed several years ago, having run out of steam.  Titanique is in a larger theatre and their average ticket price was lower, but almost 3,000 more people saw Titanique.

I am thinking that Just in Time is going to do just fine.  They may not see the stratospheric Groff grosses, but selling out with an ATP of $150 is pretty impressive.  Good for them.

 

[MezzoDiva47]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#21

Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:33pm

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..."


blame the woke mob for that

i say bring back ABF stat

 

[EvanstonDad]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#22

Posted: 5/28/26 at 10:12am

Good grief, what kind of money laundering scheme is going down at the Shubert?

[DaveyG]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#23

Posted: 5/28/26 at 10:29am

EvanstonDad said: "Good grief, what kind of money laundering scheme is going down at the Shubert?"

Rita Wilson is the lead producer and she doesn't seem like the brightest bulb. Besides the original My Big Fat Greek Wedding, her producing career has been dismal. 

[carolinaguy]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#24

Posted: 5/28/26 at 10:36am

bear882 said: "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)."

 

Salesman's numbers are even more irrelevant considering that according to the charts, they did 8 shows last week and 7 this week and only dropped $75K.


 

 

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[Auggie27]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#25

Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:10am

I'll just add, going out on a shaky limb: calling attention to a story entirely contained in the Asian culture and a specific geographic locale deserving Asian actors the action of a "woke mob" misses the point. This piece is a unique capture of a Korean future, theatrical world-building with various components indigenous to the terrain (the "love" motel, for example.) The logic in presenting a Seoul peopled with Asian bots is baked into the DNA of the show. Since we're re-opening this topic, we need to be clear about the backlash: Korea is not a routinely musicalized nation on the Broadway stage, and surely a show that prominently focuses on its citizens, even cloned replicants, might best be peopled with folks from that part of the world. It's not about "woke," it's about the opportunity in fair depictions of societies other than our own.  

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Updated On: 5/28/26 at 11:10 AM