Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/3/25 — Page 2

Sutton Ross said: "Cabaret was struggling for a long time and they decided upon a Fall closing date long before the current cast. Very similar numbers most of June, it has nothing to do with the cast who are incredible in the roles. Cabaret was never the hit everyone predicted because people are wanting to see something fun, not depressing."

I've heard from people involved that the decision to close in October was a rather recent one, made earlier this summer.

Updated On: 8/5/25 at 04:22 PM

Crusty Bagel said: "Why would they keep burning money every week?"

It may benefit ATG to keep the show running longer, even at a loss, being that they are both the landlord and the lead producer (and the production entity is a separate entity than the landlord entity). Closing it even earlier also indicates to agents, managers, and employees that they don’t know what they’re doing, and in a biz of ego and relationships that does mean a little something.

No doubt they hoped to continue with sales levels similar to what they had in June, but last week’s haul was $200K less than their June average, and the average price was down by about $27. But sometimes these numbers are volatile, and it was a bad week all around: only 6 shows increased their haul last week from the week prior.

Updated On: 8/5/25 at 04:30 PM

I think he’ll be good in la cage. He was excellent in jelly’s last Jam. Enough with the dunking on Billy

Yeah quizking, maybe you can take over the Jordan Roth role at ATG and set them straight

La Cage is a hard sell with/without Billy Porter.

CoffeeBreak said: "They should recast Billy’s role in La cage now."

I’m still optimistic about his performance in La Cage. On paper it’s a better fit for him. He can go bigger, he can do comedy and improv and mugging to the audience, riffs are appropriate for the performance numbers, and Robert O’Hara is a great director who has worked with Billy before.

Yeah, this version of Cabaret was truly bizarre, and Eddie was a...um....really something. I will forever cherish my memory of dancing with Alan Cumming (what a thrill!) and the very beautiful Michelle Williams being brilliant and heartbreaking.

Miley Cyrus was supposedly extremely close to signing on, but alas.

I wish they tried more nontraditional casting. Like gender swapping sally or the emcee. I almost feel like Billy Porter could’ve been a better Sally(his made up backstory for the emcee already matches Sally’s).

Miley was never seriously close to getting involved with this production

An incredible amount of seats for Cabaret to sell for the matinee that is starting in less than 12 hours (and of course the main market are all sleeping right now so really it's just a few hours till curtain in real buying time). Including many of the premium orchestra seats which is not a good sign (the pattern for prestige musicals is that they typically have a core market of people who will pay decent money for orchestra but then struggle to sell the mezzanine typically)

The closing date is too far away to get a fan base rush back out to see the show. It would need to be in August. I wonder if we might see a closing notice in the next few weeks, the losses each week are too much. If I recall when people here heard the eye-watering costs for Cabaret when it was first mounted they predicted it would be a failure and I guess they were right.

Even Gypsy, which has had its share of very strong weeks and hype was simply unsustainable with the costs involved to mount and run. Very hard to escape the harsh cold reality of Broadway economics it seems.

Updated On: 8/6/25 at 03:13 AM

Owen22 said: "Is the only reason "John Proctor" is closing after its limited run because the theatre has already been promised? Has anyone heard of a theatre transfer? It seems crazy a show that is doing this well is closing completely. There also must be a hoard of young TV and movie actresses who might like a stab at Sadie's role (it’s a really GOOD role). I mean Purpose is closing too and it's doing good box office, but Proctor is doing better...AND it has a youthful zeitgeist popularity despite losing the Tony."

I don’t think anyone predicted the runaway success of JPITV, and so probably no plan of that nature was considered. The Booth is a very hot house for small productions, and with small theatres at a premium, it seldom stays empty so it makes sense they lined up the next production.

Plus, theatre transfers are hardly cost effective unless there is a true demand for it and they could secure essentially the same production/cast or has awards prospects (see APPROPRIATE)

I wish John Proctor was continuing. It would be nice to see more open ended plays. Aside from Oh Mary, it's been very rare except for big franchises like HP and ST

Also I feel like JPITV would be a huge draw for school groups in the fall.

Updated On: 8/6/25 at 10:38 AM

binau said: "An incredible amount of seats for Cabaret to sell for the matinee that is starting in less than 12 hours (and of course the main market are all sleeping right now so really it's just a few hours till curtain in real buying time). Including many of the premium orchestra seats which is not a good sign (the pattern for prestige musicals is that they typically have a core market of people who will pay decent money for orchestra but then struggle to sell the mezzanine typically)

The closing date is too far away to get a fan base rush back out to see the show. It would need to be in August. I wonder if we might see a closing notice in the next few weeks, the losses each week are too much. If I recall when people here heard the eye-watering costs for Cabaret when it was first mounted they predicted it would be a failure and I guess they were right.

Even Gypsy, which has had its share of very strong weeks and hype was simply unsustainable with the costs involved to mount and run. Very hard to escape the harsh cold reality of Broadway economics it seems.


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In case people are interested, here is the same seating chart 30 minutes before the matinee yesterday. On the day, they were able to sell most orchestra but struggling with mezz