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Last week’s Tony Award nominations worked immoderate magic astatine nan container agency of nan awards contenders, pinch astir each of nan productions successful nan awesome categories reporting container agency bumps successful nan days aft Tuesday’s Tony announcements.
Similarly, productions that were disappointed pinch nan nominations – Beaches, Dog Day Afternoon, The Fear of 13 – apt felt nan aforesaid astir nan consequent container office.
Among nan biggest gainers successful nan post-nomination week were Schmigadoon!, The Lost Boys, The Rocky Horror Show, Titanique, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ragtime, Every Brilliant Thing and The Balusters, among a fewer others. Giant, starring nan Tony nominated John Lithgow, posted its champion week ever pinch a gross of $1,290,105. That’s besides past week’s highest gross for immoderate caller play.
Some specifics:
Schmigadoon! and The Lost Boys, which tied for nan number of astir nominations astatine 12 each, were up, respectively, by $197,100 to $843,229 and $131,265 to $1,135,146;
Ragtime, pinch 11 nominations, was up $77,977 to $1,196,461, a sell-out arsenic usual;
With 9 nominations each, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Rocky Horror Show were up
$22,221 (to $957,848) and $235,113 (to $1,065,366), respectively;
Death of a Salesman, besides pinch 9 nominations, had a planned seven-performance week, truthful was down by $6,752 to a still-stellar $1,457,033, pinch astir 100% of seats filled astatine nan Winter Garden;
Titanique, pinch 4 nominations, was up $122,713 to $853,143;
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, pinch 5 nominations, was up $152,203 to $1,094,676;
Every Brilliant Thing, pinch 2 nominations including 1 for prima Daniel Radcliffe, was up $151,880 to $1,870,355;
The Balusters, pinch 5 noms, was up $93,225 to $388,782;
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) saw a overmuch needed boost from its 8 noms, jumping $92,355 to $598,944;
Becky Shaw, pinch 2 nominations, was up $41,776 to $504,419;
Fallen Angels, pinch 5 nominations, continued to capable seats astatine nan subscription-based non-profit Roundabout’s Todd Haines, pinch attendance holding dependable astir about 97%; gross dipped astir $68,845 to $575,766.
Beaches, a information shut-out, was down $44,518 to $475,601, pinch attendance astatine nan Majestic hovering astir nan 50% of capacity mark. The Fear of 13, nominated for lighting and sound creation but thing for nan play itself aliases stars Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, slipped by $10,337 to $707,598, filling astir 82% of seats astatine nan James Earl Jones. Dog Day Afternoon, pinch a disappointing 3 noms (for sets, costumes and lighting), dropped $43,751 to $847,667, pinch astir 87% of seats purchased.
Chess, pinch prima Lea Michele missing respective performances (and a Tony nomination), was disconnected by $103,705, grossing $868,401 and filling conscionable 73% of seats astatine nan Imperial.
Hardest deed past week – though not by nan Tonys – was Chicago, which dropped a whopping $1,131,898 successful its first week since Mormon Wives prima Whitney Leavitt and her Dancing With The Stars partner Mark Ballas near nan show. The gross for past week was $556,231, and attendance was astatine 64% (compared to nan erstwhile week’s 102%).
Also slipping was Oh, Mary!, pinch grosses falling by $293,475 to $1,247,505 successful nan 2nd week of Maya Rudolph’s starring performance.
Aladdin was down $127,320 to $941,061 owed to a heavy subsidized Wednesday capacity for TDF’s Intro to Theatre program. Also, The Book of Mormon was acheronian past week owed to nan May 4 occurrence astatine nan venue.
In all, nan 39 Broadway productions (one less than nan erstwhile week owed to Book of Mormon) grossed $38,297,488 for nan week ending May 10, a driblet of 3% from nan erstwhile week and down astir 11% from past twelvemonth astatine this time. Total attendance past week was 318,376, down 1% from nan erstwhile week and 4% year-to-year.
In nan 50th week of nan 2025-26 season, Broadway has grossed $1,831,853,911, up astir 4% complete past twelvemonth astatine this time, pinch full attendance of 13,921,530 up 2%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For much container agency accusation visit the League’s website.
