Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
#1Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 12:53pmClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/18/2025 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: REDWOOD (10%), SUNSET BLVD. (7.1%), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (6.6%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (5.7%), OH, MARY! (5.4%), THE GREAT GATSBY (3.1%), THE LION KING (1.7%), SMASH (1.5%), MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (1.5%), & JULIET (1.4%), OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (1.4%), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (0.7%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (0.7%), THE OUTSIDERS (0.5%), DEAD OUTLAW (0.4%), HAMILTON (0.3%), GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (0.3%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (0.2%), JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN (0.2%), GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (0.1%),
Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: HELL'S KITCHEN (-10.4%), SIX: THE MUSICAL (-6.2%), MJ (-3.9%), PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL (-3.1%), CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB (-2.8%), STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-2.8%), REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES: THE MUSICAL (-2.6%), GYPSY (-2.5%), HADESTOWN (-2.3%), DEATH BECOMES HER (-2.2%), FLOYD COLLINS (-2%), BOOP! THE MUSICAL (-1.3%), STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S OLD FRIENDS (-1%), CHICAGO (-0.6%), THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (-0.5%), PURPOSE (-0.5%), JUST IN TIME (-0.1%),
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gibsons2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
#2Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 12:58pm
John Proctor is finally getting the audiences and the grosses it deserves!
Good bye, Real Women and Boop!
#3Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:05pm
Mostly steady week...
Great showing for Buena Vista and John Proctor
Ouch for Boop and RWHC again. They just aren't catching on.
Dead Outlaw did not get a Tony noms bump like some of the other Best Musical contenders, which does not bode well. Smash is falling apart quickly too. Might not even make it to the end of summer like I originally thought it would.
#4Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:06pm
And with this report, the 2024-25 Broadway season has officially ended with a record total gross, surpassing that of 2018-19. With tourism of all kinds now on the decline, it could take some time to get back to these numbers. (A-list celebrities will help to try and ease the pain in future seasons.)
Happy trails to REDWOOD, those aren’t bad numbers to end on.
Oh look, a bibu!
#5Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:09pm
Strangers Things grosses continue to tumble. Boop, Smash, and RWHC need to pull the plug.
Cabaret and Harry Potter also seem very close to deaths door.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
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Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
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Updated On: 5/20/25 at 01:09 PM
witchoftheeast2
Stand-by Joined: 9/25/24
#6Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:14pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Strangers Things grosses continue to tumble.Boop, Smash, and RWHC need to pull the plug.
Cabaret and Harry Potter also seem very close to deaths door."
If Cabaret casting rumors are to be believed, they might have a big bump mid-summer/fall. I wouldn't count it out quiiiiite yet
#7Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:17pm
The grosses for Real Women Have Curves continue to be the most depressing thing of the week. It will probably run for a week after the Tonys, and then sadly close up shop. This show just deserved so much more. Boop probably closes around the same time. The spring road conference is probably the only reason that both shows didn't already announce a closing date.
And even in a pre-Memorial Day week that is guaranteed to be low on tourists....that number is a huge YIKES for Cabaret. This show is truly a showcase and lesson on the perils of star replacement casting in the States. For all of their talent, Orville and Eva aren't pulling in enough sales. How many weeks are these producers willing to throw away $300K+ before the next cast starts (assuming that the new batch of leads can actually sell enough tickets)? If those wild Miley Cyrus rumors are true then good for them. They basically need a Miley-level celebrity in every single round of casting to make this thing work financially.
#8Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:22pm
The spring road conference was last week, probably resulted in a lot of comps and discounted tickets for these shows. Now that it’s passed I’m not sure what is keeping Boop, RWHC, and Smash hanging on.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
#9Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:23pm
Also adding that Dead Outlaw is toast. They have a very low average ticket cost and are still using discounts post-Tony nominations. And even with those lower cost tickets, they aren't selling out the house. Word of mouth is fairly poor. The Tony race was supposed to be Maybe Happy Ending vs. Dead Outlaw...but MHE has firmly pulled ahead. So no Best Musical win to boost the box office. Maybe a surprise win in book or an upset in featured actress. Neither would make a dent in sales. It's a small show, so it can ride these numbers for a bit, but when new shows arrive in the fall it's going to be drowned out.
Which A-List movie stars are going to make their Broadway debuts next season? With these astronomical grosses for star-driven plays, expect them to dominate Broadway through this incoming recession. New musicals, not so much.
Papi2013
Featured Actor Joined: 5/4/13
#10Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:31pm
Real Women will have life after Broadway in many regional theaters. Smash is just Trash that will soon be forgotten.
MadsonMelo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/24/14
#11Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:34pm
So many shows begging to close its not even Funny :(
Harry Potter is in really dangerous water.
Papi2013
Featured Actor Joined: 5/4/13
#12Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:35pm
MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "Also adding that Dead Outlaw is toast. They have a very low average ticket cost and are still using discounts post-Tony nominations. And even with those lower cost tickets, they aren't selling out the house. Word of mouth is fairly poor. The Tony race was supposed to be Maybe Happy Ending vs. Dead Outlaw...but MHE has firmly pulled ahead. So no Best Musical win to boost the box office. Maybe a surprise win in book or an upset in featured actress. Neither would make a dent in sales. It's a small show, so it can ride these numbers for a bit, but when new shows arrive in the fall it's going to be drowned out.
Which A-List movie stars are going to make their Broadway debuts next season? With these astronomical grosses for star-driven plays, expect them to dominate Broadway through this incoming recession. New musicals, not so much."
Actually; the race is now between MHE and DBH. With DBH showing to be a favorite in last weeks road convention.. so as far as the Tonys.. anything can still happen. I suspect financially DBH will eventually be the financial winner regardless.
#13Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:39pm
Sadly, there's close to a dozen shows right now that'll probably be closing by Labor Day.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
MadsonMelo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/24/14
#14Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:39pm
DBH cost 30M, right? It really needs that Tony…
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#15Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:39pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Strangers Things grosses continue to tumble.Boop, Smash, and RWHC need to pull the plug.
Cabaret and Harry Potter also seem very close to deaths door."
You've been saying that every week. CABARET isn't going anywhere anytime soon -- sorry to disappoint.
witchoftheeast2
Stand-by Joined: 9/25/24
#16Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:40pm
Is the James Earl Jones cursed? When was the last time it had a show that ran more than a few months?
#17Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:41pm
Is this the first week “Maybe Happy Ending” reached 100% + a million dollars?
#18Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:41pm
Yes, I'd definitely that Death Becomes Her has risen to second place in the Tony race! I just meant that at the outset of awards season, most folks assumed the race would be Maybe Happy Ending vs. Dead Outlaw. But the latter just hasn't caught on in the way most people thought it would. Just furthering my thought that Dead Outlaw only makes it to September or October.
#19Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:44pm
MadsonMelo said: "So many shows begging to close its not even Funny :(
Harry Potter is in really dangerous water."
I’m not someone to root for a show to close, especially one employing as many people as Harry Potter. But if it does have to close up shop, I hope it makes JK Rowling pause for even just a second to think about how much energy she has thrown into her campaign of hatred against trans people.
#20Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:45pm
JSquared2 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Strangers Things grosses continue to tumble.Boop, Smash, and RWHC need to pull the plug.
Cabaret and Harry Potter also seem very close to deaths door."
You've been saying that every week. CABARET isn't going anywhere anytime soon -- sorry to disappoint.
"
Even if the Miley rumors are true I don’t see a world they’re able to ever recoup their initial investment. They’re probably having to recapitalize during Eva and Orville’s run.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#21Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:47pm
Sauja said: "MadsonMelo said: "So many shows begging to close its not even Funny :(
Harry Potter is in really dangerous water."
I’m not someone to root for a show to close, especially one employing as many people as Harry Potter. But if it does have to close up shop, I hope it makes JK Rowling pause for even just a second to think about how much energy she has thrown into her campaign of hatred against trans people."
Do you really think that her personal beliefs would have anything to do with the show running out of steam and closing? But yeah...I'm sure she will pause for a moment... and then go back to counting her millions of dollars!
schubox
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/16
#22Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:49pm
witchoftheeast2 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Strangers Things grosses continue to tumble.Boop, Smash, and RWHC need to pull the plug.
Cabaret and Harry Potter also seem very close to deaths door."
If Cabaret casting rumors are to be believed, they might have a big bump mid-summer/fall. I wouldn't count it out quiiiiite yet"
Which rumor? Miley?
singerunlimited
Stand-by Joined: 3/19/06
#23Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 1:57pm
While I'm pulling for a miracle for them, I truly don't understand what's keeping RWHC and BOOP from closing up shop. Ticket sales for the week ahead for both shows are absolutely terrible.
#24Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 2:02pm
They might both be performing at the Tony Awards and hoping for a bump from that?
SmokeyLady
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
#25Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/18/25
Posted: 5/20/25 at 2:03pm
MadsonMelo said: "DBH cost 30M, right? It really needs that Tony…"
Can you just point as to where your getting this from? Thanks.
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