Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#1
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:20pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/31/2026 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: CHESS (7.3%), THE LION KING (2%), THE OUTSIDERS (0.9%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (0.4%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (0.3%), THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (0.2%), ALADDIN (0.1%), BECKY SHAW (0.1%), FALLEN ANGELS (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY (-32.8%), CHICAGO (-13.5%), TITANÍQUE (-12.6%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-10.2%), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (-10.2%), THE BALUSTERS (-9.8%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-8.9%), THE FEAR OF 13 (-8.8%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-8.7%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-8%), THE GREAT GATSBY (-8%), & JULIET (-7.4%), TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-7%), CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (-6.4%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-5.7%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-5.1%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-4.4%), PROOF (-4%), SCHMIGADOON! (-4%), EVERY BRILLIANT THING (-3.2%), THE LOST BOYS (-2.5%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-2.4%), WICKED (-2.2%), GIANT (-1.8%), JUST IN TIME (-1.4%), MJ (-1.1%), HADESTOWN (-1%), OH, MARY! (-0.5%), HAMILTON (-0.4%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (-0.4%),
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#2
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:24pm
This celebrity autobiography thing is tanking at an absolutely astounding rate.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#3
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:34pm
Jordan Catalano said: "This celebrity autobiography thing is tanking at an absolutely astounding rate."
I don't think a Broadway show has grossed that little in my lifetime.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#4
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:40pm
Jordan Catalano said: "This celebrity autobiography thing is tanking at an absolutely astounding rate."
I got comps for Saturday night and you know what? It was pretty fun. The house looked 20% full though.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#5
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:42pm
What a ****ty week across the board, save for a few of the hits/long-running shows… hopefully summer vacations/tourism/Tony Award Wins will stop the hemorrhaging at the box offices!!
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#6
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:47pm
Anyone know the nut for Two Strangers?
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#7
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:55pm
Was the idea behind Celebrity Autobiography to go after the All Out/All In crowd? My first time hearing about it was when I saw the marquee going up at the Shubert a week before opening - shocked to see those numbers and wonder what people were (or weren’t) thinking.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#8
Posted: 6/2/26 at 3:57pm
We have now entered the 2026-27 fiscal season, which should reflect the tanking economy and decrease in US tourism a lot better than the latter half of 2025-26 did. It's up to the big A-list names fronting casts both old and new to help combat an expectedly precipitous drop.
Happy trails to Isa Briones, Dylan Mulvaney, Joshua Colley, and Tavon Olds-Sample (who has been with MJ from the start and played his final performance in the musical on Sunday).
EVERY BRILLIANT THING doing just fine with Hargitay now in the fold. I do wonder who's going to lead the national tour, or if different faces for different cities / legs are used.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#9
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:21pm
THDavis said: "Was the idea behind Celebrity Autobiography to go after the All Out/All In crowd? My first time hearing about it was when I saw the marquee going up at the Shubert a week before opening - shocked to see those numbers and wonder what people were (or weren’t) thinking."
I went on comps on Sunday afternoon and I honestly had fun. It’s worth exactly what I paid for it and 90 minutes of diversion.
I went primarily because the gay trifecta of Mario Cantone, Bruce Vilanch, and Jeff Hiller were there and I was not disappointed (and it’s probably the easiest stage door of my life). Pack and Reyfel are annoying and seem like they shouldn’t actually be in the show, despite creating it
It didn’t come together until two weeks before it opened, and it seems they are actively scheduling people to fill in the slots. It probably costs nothing to run - I can’t imagine any performer getting more than scale for this
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#10
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:24pm
Play Esq. said: "Anyone know the nut for Two Strangers?"
For some reason 550 sticks out in my mind.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#11
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:26pm
Alex Kulak2 said: "Jordan Catalano said: "This celebrity autobiography thing is tanking at an absolutely astounding rate."
I don't think a Broadway show has grossed that little in my lifetime."
Between this and BEACHES, these desperate, third-tier producers need to think twice when Shubert offers them an inappropriate house. Regardless of how cheap CelebAut is to mount, it's not THIS cheap.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#12
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:31pm
Regarding the other shows, I’m not really concerned about SIX and & JULIET since they’ve been running on fumes for months now and so short of absolute insolvency, they seem to be well settled to keep humming along. OPERATION MINCEMEAT is also keeping steady, only falling back a little to where they were running most of 2025.
I do worry about CATS because it’s about $850K to run but, according to a producer I know for the show, they are not profitable at the moment, so they need the Tony wins to push them above floating. To that end, I don’t see anything saving TITANIQUE. Those numbers aren’t BEACHES-level bad, but nowhere near where they need to be to sustain a run to September. I see them folding when originally scheduled like CHESS did.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#13
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:33pm
Not a great week overall.
Every Brilliant Thing still real solid with Mariska.
Celebrity Autobiography reminds me of those megabombs you would see back in the 80s and 90s.
Interesting how much Dog Day has fallen off. That and the rise of Salesman over the same month or two can show the impact of reviews and awards even for starry plays.
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#14
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:33pm
$44k gross for Celebrity Autobiography? Wouldn't it have made more sense to just keep the doors closed?
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#15
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:38pm
quizking101 said: "THDavis said: "I went primarily because the gay trifecta of Mario Cantone, Bruce Vilanch, and Jeff Hiller were there
This is why I went. I had to see Auntie Bruce. Jackie Hoffman was the standout though, she had me cackling.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#16
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:40pm
Maybe Happy Ending, you are in danger, girl!
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#17
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:40pm
TotallyEffed said: "quizking101 said: "THDavis said: "I went primarily because the gay trifecta of Mario Cantone, Bruce Vilanch, and Jeff Hiller were there
This is why I went. I had to see Auntie Bruce. Jackie Hoffman was the standout though, she had me cackling.
"
HERE’S TO THE CAMP QUEENS WHI RAISED US!!
Yeah, Jackie was a hoot doing Oprah and Nia Vardalos was a perfect Kardashian.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#18
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:41pm
Were any of the new musicals profitable this week?
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#19
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:47pm
I wish we got to see Jackie Hoffman do more broadway. She was very funny in Celeb.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#20
Posted: 6/2/26 at 4:56pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Were any of the new musicals profitable this week?"
Did we ever find out a weekly actual for LOST BOYS? I have to think it's under $1.2 mil a week, in which case they broke even the past two weeks.
Assuming SCHMIGADOON costs about $950K per week? If so, it and TITANIQUE have yet to break even in any week.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#21
Posted: 6/2/26 at 5:34pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "We have now entered the 2026-27 fiscal season, which should reflect the tanking economy and decrease in US tourism a lot better than the latter half of 2025-26 did. It's up to the big A-list names fronting casts both old and new to help combat an expectedly precipitous drop.
I just came back from two weeks in Italy and everywhere we went -- big cities and small towns -- were packed with tourists, yet our Lufthansa plane coming home was half empty -- Business Class was a ghost town.
Not likely, I know, but I so want Daniel Radcliffe to win!
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/23
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#22
Posted: 6/2/26 at 5:45pm
I did enter the month thinking Whitney White would be a lock for Play Director... now I'm feeling as though Mantello will take it easily. Strange how that works!
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#23
Posted: 6/2/26 at 6:57pm
GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "I did enter the month thinking Whitney White would be a lock for Play Director... now I'm feeling as though Mantello will take it easily. Strange how that works!"
I think Whitney might have had it locked up since, on paper, people weren’t sure what Mantello would do with SALESMAN - turns out he had a vision and BODIED it.
I’m more wringing my hands that Lear will win Direction of a Musical over Zhailon/Bill and my head will explode out of the Radio City balcony
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#24
Posted: 6/2/26 at 7:06pm
Honestly good. These shows have been very corrosive for Broadway. The future of Broadway is great new plays and new musicals and a musical theater rep company. Time to go BIG and remind people what they love about theater.
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/31/26#25
Posted: 6/2/26 at 7:06pm
People are abandoning Broadway and just going to Lincoln Center now. The opera and ballet and philharmonic have never been fuller. LCT seems to be benefiting from this too.
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