Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26- Page 2

[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

[TotallyEffed]

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

Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:14am

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

 

Tonight's 9:00PM show was just cancelled for some reason.

[GottaGetAGimmick420]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#27

Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:47am

Ensemble1698878795 said: "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 theoutcries, 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."

What is also interesting is that Savy had a LOT to say on their insta when ABF was replacing an Asian cast member. Now that they are a principal standby they've walked back almost all of those comments... 

I'm just here so I don't get fined

Updated On: 5/28/26 at 11:47 AM

[bear882]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#28

Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:54am

carolinaguy said: "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."

Thanks for catching that. I knew Death of a Salesman was moving to a 7-shows-per-week schedule, largely after the Tony Awards. I overlooked that they did it last week. That makes their box office performance even more impressive. The play is at the point where it’s selling SRO tickets now.

 

[quizking101]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#29

Posted: 5/28/26 at 12:00pm

Meanwhile, press release forthcoming, but CATS had just extended through 1/17/27 and the tickets are on sale now.

Good news if you wanted the runway seats

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[MemorableUserName]

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/24/26#30

Posted: 5/28/26 at 12:05pm

Auggie27 said: "I'll just add, going out on a shaky limb: calling attention to a storyentirely contained in the Asian culture and a specific geographic locale deservingAsian 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."

Your post is entirely too thoughtful and reasonable for this site, but thank you for posting it.