Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/10/25

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: GYPSY (16.8%), MJ (2.6%), CALL ME IZZY (2.1%), OH, MARY! (2.1%), PURPOSE (0.9%), HADESTOWN (0.8%), ALADDIN (0.5%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (0.5%), JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN (0.5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.4%), MAMMA MIA! (0.3%), THE LION KING (0.1%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (-6.7%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-4.6%), & JULIET (-2.9%), HELL'S KITCHEN (-2%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-1.5%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-1.5%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-1.3%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-0.9%), CHICAGO (-0.7%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-0.5%), HAMILTON (-0.1%), JUST IN TIME (-0.1%), THE OUTSIDERS (-0.1%),

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Anyone know if John Proctor or Purpose are close to recouping?

That Cabaret number- yikes. Does anyone think it might not make it to October?

That Call Me Izzy number is embarrassing. Cannot believe it's still open.

Jeff Ross with a $37 average ticket price 😝

Third week in a row Cabaret has reached a new lowest gross for its run. I suspect this upper-mid 500k range is going to be the new average for its grosses, which is really not going to be sustainable for over two more months.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Mostly calm this week, before the end-of-summer drop until Labor Day weekend. (Lots of schools around the country started back up yesterday.)

Faint praise, but also not as bad as I expected for Jeff Ross.

In its first full week back on Broadway, MAMMA MIA! was the fourth-highest grossing title of the current bunch, but dare I say their numbers feel a little... underwhelming? I honestly was expecting $2 million-plus for this, maybe we'll get it during the holiday season.

Remember that HAMILTON had a performance last week mostly made up of $10 lottery winners, plus an invite-only perf for their 10th anniversary!

Nice bump for Jinkx and co. over at OH, MARY!

Last-chancers are flocking to PURPOSE, GYPSY, and JOHN PROCTOR which keeps on climbing."

Mamma Mia only played 7 performances. An eighth performance would have brought is above $1.8. I have to admit that I am not surprised, and assume — between this and The Wiz and Beetlejuice, Broadway will have another source of product.

In the 60s, you never saw revivals of musicals on Broadway. Maybe classics for 2 week runs at City Center or 6 week runs at. Lincoln Center in the summer. I guess that the smash revival of No! No! Nanette! Changed things forever.

Hopefully, we will not see this becoming a significant factor in the future, as touring production values are generally inferior to Broadway, among other reasons.

gibsons2 said: "witchoftheeast2 said: "That Cabaret number- yikes. Does anyone think it might not make it to October?"

I think everyone thinks that at this point"

Yeah. It’s getting to look like a situation where they just need to put it out of its misery already. It was outperformed by even CHICAGO of all shows. When I went last Tuesday, the orchestra seats seemed to only be sold within an hour of curtain when I was looking around on the website for kicks. Even then, about 25% of the orchestra was empty and the mezzanine was…yikes.

I’ll be forever grateful that I got to see Marisha burn down the house with the title number because that was worth the $50 I paid for a secondhand ticket. But I was told last week that if things didn’t pick up, to expect an early closing notice going up this week or next week.

gibsons2 said: "It's really hard to believe that Hell's Kitchen and The Outsiders haven't recouped yet. They are both running for almost 1.5 years and both are doing very well."

I would guess Hell's Kitchen is more expensive and it hasn't been doing quite as well so that doesn't shock me but The Outsiders has GOT to be close. It's been doing about as well as it could do for a long time now.

ACL2006 said: "Jeff Ross with a $37 average ticket price 😝"

should be lower

During the 1940s, there were a number of revivals -- Sally, Desert Song, Red Mill, Student Prince, Show Boat, Sweethearts. The 1950s and 1960s had mostly new shows, so the only revivals were at City Center or Lincoln Center for shorter runs. The 1970s is when there were fewer new musicals with broad appeal, so there were more revivals and revisals-- No No Nanette, Irene, Good News, Candide, Lorelei, Gigi, and Very Good Eddie. Faithful duplications included The Desert Song, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, On The Town, and Yul Brenner in King and I. The 1980s and 1990s saw more touring shows that "dropped in" for a Broadway engagement -- Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, Richard Burton and Richard Harris in Camelot, later Richard Chamberlains' My Fair Lady, then Music Man twice (Dick Van Dyke, then Stroman revival) Hal Prince's Show Boat, and that eternal revisal Grease, then Chicao which is still playing. It seems revivals and revisals only appear when there is a lack of good new product and producers fear taking risks, so they return to the older shows with "stars" that will promise payback and a lucrative national tour.

Updated On: 8/12/25 at 03:18 PM

To an above question, I believe Purpose has already recouped. They just haven't announced it yet.

The only show with a worse average ticket price than Cabaret is Jeff Ross!? LOL. That is dire. There is no financial reason for this show to make it to October. But considering the producers were crazy enough to extend it that far with this cast in the first place, I think they might just be crazy enough to keep it open until the announced date. Perhaps they have accepted that they will lose a few million more dollars and they are rich enough that it doesn't bother them.

There is no set formula to announcing a recoupment. And it involves a variety of factors.

First off, there is no rule saying that shows must make such an announcement. And indeed, many do not. It used to feel like tradition to make this announcement, but the landscape has shifted in recent years. There is a growing trend among limited run shows to announce recoupment at the end of the run. Open ended musicals are more likely to announce closer to when the actual recoupment happens. Often it comes down to optics and the need (or lack of need) for press around such a thing. An open ended big-budget musical needs lots of different types of press over the course of its life. And saying "we recouped! Yay!" is equivalent to saying "we are a success!" which attracts ticket buyers. In the &Juliet example you mention, the gap of a few weeks might have to do with finalizing paperwork, creating social and press materials, or simply waiting for an opportune slot in their press schedule. Limited runs, by contrast often have tightly planned press schedules over however many months. So this announcement is often saved for the final week or two because it has the celebratory "going out with a bang" feel to it. It may also depend on the overall landscape of the season. If it's been a rough year and tons of shows are flopping financially, some producers feel it in bad taste to announce a recoupment, as if it were boasting.