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Broadway welcomed nan New Year pinch logic for precocious spirits arsenic nan 33 productions grossed an awesome full of $52,037,125. Some 24 of nan shows were sell-outs (or wrong a fraction) and only 1 filled less than 90% of their disposable seats. More connected that later.
While nan $52M people is simply a 4% driblet from nan erstwhile week, and astir 7% down from nan aforesaid clip – Week 32 – past year, those slips bespeak nan always-lucrative Christmas week highs (Christmas fell wrong Week 32 past season).
Some stand-outs for nan week ending January 4, 2026, included Mamma Mia!, playing nan champion week of its constricted return engagement astatine nan Winter Garden Theatre, grossing $2,594,204 for 9 performances. The engagement ends February 1.
Setting a caller eight-performance location grounds astatine nan Minskoff was The Lion King, grossing $3,145,899. That fig marks nan 34th location grounds group by nan musical.
Total attendance for nan 33 shows was 313,513, astir moreover pinch nan erstwhile week and erstwhile season.
Two shows – Beetlejuice and Waiting For Godot – closed past week, pinch nan demonic philharmonic posting a large $311,282 summation complete nan erstwhile week, taking successful $1,373,691 and trading 96% of its seats. Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, was a waste retired yet again, grossing $1,549,152.
In summation to Mamma Mia!, The Lion King and Godot, different sell-outs for nan week were & Juliet, Aladdin, Buena Vista Social Club, Chess, Death Becomes Her, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and nan Cursed Child, Just In Time, Mamma Mia!, Marjorie Prime, Maybe Happy Ending, MJ, Moulin Rouge, Oh, Mary!, Operation Mincemeat, Ragtime, The Book of Mormon, The Great Gatsby, The Outsiders and Wicked.
Top earners for nan week were Hamilton, $3,332,754; Wicked, $3,286,525; Harry Potter and nan Cursed Child, $3,270,719; The Lion King; Mamma Mia!; Aladdin, $2,155,912; and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, $2,001,639.
Bug, nan non-prof Manhattan Theatre Club’s accumulation of nan Tracy Letts play starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, took successful $446,806 for 8 previews, filling 96% of seats astatine nan Samuel J. Friedman. Opening nighttime is January 8.
Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), nan critically acclaimed two-person musical, saw an upswing astatine nan Longacre, filling astir 90% of seats, up from 81% nan erstwhile week. For 9 performances, Two Strangers grossed $885,968.
While nan fantabulous Liberation saw immoderate betterment successful attendance – 66% of capacity compared to nan erstwhile week’s 52% – nan figures stay stubbornly sub-par. Eight performances astatine nan James Earl Jones took successful $424,723.
With nan wide mean summons value astatine $165.98, 4 productions topped nan $200 people and 1 nan $300. Top tickets was Hamilton astatine $310.49, followed by Just In Time ($281.22), Harry Potter ($252.06), Lion King ($234.09) and Wicked ($213.30).
Season to date, Broadway, successful nan 32nd week of nan 2025-26 season, has grossed $1,199,642,229 up astir 10% complete past twelvemonth astatine this time, pinch full attendance of 8,844,829 up 3%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For much container agency accusation sojourn the League’s website.
