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Broadway ended nan 2025-2026 play connected an upswing past week, pinch nan 40 productions grossing a full $40,707,260, up 7% from nan erstwhile week but down 8% from nan aforesaid week past year. Attendance was 336,648, up 6% from nan erstwhile week and holding dependable pinch past twelvemonth astatine this time.
Some notable numbers: Every Brilliant Thing set a location grounds (for a play) astatine nan Hudson Theatre arsenic prima Daniel Radcliffe performed his last week (Mariska Hargitay makes her Broadway debut successful nan domiciled this week). The last tally: $2,296,473. Radcliffe is nary alien to Hudson location records: Merrily We Roll Along, successful which he starred pinch Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, group nan venue’s location grounds for a philharmonic pinch $2,766,127.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball, riding precocious from Tony Award nominations, had its champion week ever, filling 97% of seats astatine nan Broadhurst and grossing a big $1,033,755.
Other large earners for nan week were Hamilton, coming successful astatine #2 aft Every Brilliant Thing pinch $2,038,122; The Lion King astatine #3 pinch $1,979,033; Death of a Salesman, #4 pinch $1,635,537 for a scheduled seven-performance week; and, astatine #5, MJ pinch $1,592,830. Oh, Mary! was adjacent down astatine $1,534,410.
Sell outs for nan week ending May 24 were Death of a Salesman, Every Brilliant Thing, Hamilton, Just In Time, Oh, Mary!, Ragtime and The Rocky Horror Show. In summation to Jellicle Ball, shows successful nan 95%+ scope were Becky Shaw, Fallen Angels, Hadestown, MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Operation Mincemeat and Proof, pinch The Lost Boys and Titanique coming close.
In its last week, Beaches was up a spot to $511,892, but still filled only 58% of seats astatine nan Majestic. That’s astir nan aforesaid attendance percent arsenic Celebrity Autobiography, which opened astatine nan Shubert pinch a gross of $111,087 and an mean summons value of conscionable $20.88.
Also today, nan Broadway League released its end-of-season container agency statistics. Go here for details.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For much container agency accusation visit the League’s website.
