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Welcome to your Broadway Grosses Report for no Foolin Wednesday, April 1, 2026 I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tammanini. On today's episode, I will run you through all of the data that came out of Broadway's box office last week, as well as catch you up on some of the biggest stories that we've missed since Monday's last week on Broadway. But first, we will dive into all of the receipts for the 44th week of the 2025, 2026 Broadway season that wrapped up on Sunday, March 29th. In total, because of five new shows joining the boards, Broadway had 36 shows playing last week. That is in line with what they had during the corresponding week last year. But there were some significant differences because during the week of March 24 through March 30 of 2025, not as many shows had just begun preview. So there were actually quite a few more performances during that week. But nonetheless, last week on Broadway, the box office returns came in at $38,657,410, up 5% over the previous week, but down about 5 million from last year for the reasons I just talked about. Attendance in total last week came in at 294,349 people, up 8% over the last week, but only down 5% from last year. The average ticket price was actually down from both last week and last year to come in at $131.33 in total last week. Thanks probably because a little bit of spring break. We already had the one main spring break rush in March. We'll have another one coming up here as we get closer. Easter in April, but three shows eclipsed $2 million. One was very, very close. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, unsurprisingly, led the way at $2,576,039. Hamilton was next at 2.3 million. Just in time during Jonathan Groff's final week in the basement of Wicked came in at a production best $2,066,446. The Lion King was very close at 1.9 million, and rounding out the top five was Wicked at $1.79 million, also seeing a significant increase thanks to a very specific casting. Moulin Rouge was Next up at $1.6 million, thanks in no small part to the addition of Megan Thee, Stallion in the role of Ziddler. That increased nearly $450,000. We'll talk about Meghan a little bit more in the news part of this episode, but that was followed by every brilliant thing. At 1.4 million Stranger Things, the first Shadow Dog Day Afternoon, even though it opened on Monday. So that was was impacted a little bit by comps and those types of things. Then we had MJ Chicago welcoming not only Whitney Levitt back, but also Mark Ballas to the show. Then we had Aladdin, Chess, Ragtime, Death of a Salesman, the Outsiders, the Great Gatsby, with even Oblzada being joined by her real life husband Reeve Carney. And then finally with maybe Happy Ending. Hadestown was also very, very close as well. Giant, during its opening week only had seven shows and one of them was opening night last Monday with all of the comps and free tickets and everything that goes along with that. It did a very strong $958,000 as well. Now, I mentioned the fact that we had five new shows join the boards, most of them later in the week, but not all of them. We'll start with Titanic, which had the most shows played last week. It did six previews, come in at $626,789. If you extrapolate that over an eight show week, it will come in at 836K. Then we had the Rocky Horror show over at Studio 54. It did four performances and it brought in $460,121. Again, expand that to a full playing week, 920K. Moving from one roundabout house to another. Over the Todd Haynes, we had the Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Fallen angels that did three performances and brought in $197,395. That would average out to about 526k during a normal playing week. Of course, subscription house. All of those things that normally apply in those situations are true there as well. Then we had two new musicals that only did two performances. Let's start alphabetically with Beaches. Over the Majestic theater, it did two shows and brought in $217,743. Extrapolating that comes out to 871K. And then what looks to be the big winner in terms of new shows on Broadway Last week, the Lost Boys also did a pair of performances, but brought in $489,214. You exp to eight shows. That is 1.96 million. To date this season, Broadway has grossed $1,588,024,788, an increase of 7% over the corresponding time period in the 20242025 season, with total attendance up to $11,939,767, an increase of 3%. In total, 28 of Broadway, 36 shows played to capacities of 90% or more. We had the Rocky Horror show, which is Lost Boys and Ragtime, all exactly at 100%. Giant, Dog Day Afternoon, Hadestown and Moulin Rouge were all under 101%, but above 100 in descending order, Giant being the closest to 101. Hamilton was at 101.01%. A nice palindromic number there. And then unsurprisingly, given its huge week and Jonathan Grof departing just in time, maintained its status as the top capacity show at 103.35%. I'd be interested to see what happens with Matty Morrison joining the production this week, doing three weeks in the show and then Jeremy Jordan coming in. This has been a box office juggernaut over at the Circle in the Square theater and even better than the grosses has been its capacity. Really jamming people into the standing room only. It's really actually a great standing room only theater, to be quite honest with you, because of the, not only, only the theater in the round aspect of it, because of the stadium seating going up, you really do have a pretty good view from, from the back there. But nonetheless should be fun to figure out how much going from one Glee star and Jonathan Groff to another Glee star and Matthew Morrison does, and then bringing in another beloved Broadway heartthrob of the later millennial age in Jeremy Jordan. All right, let's get into the news. I mentioned Megan Thee Stallion earlier with the with the fact that she joined Marvel Moulin Rouge this week, but during the performance on Tuesday night over the Al Hirschfeld Theater, she had to leave the performance and be taken to the hospital where she was reportedly, quote, very ill. Apparently she was completely worn down and run down dealing with exhaustion. She will miss all the performances today on Wednesday, but is expected to be back in the role of Ziddler on Thursday. Look, Megan Thee Stallion knows how to do a show. She knows how to tour and do big stage spectacles and all that stuff. But Broadway's legit and you throw in a little bit of illness along with a tough rehearsal and performance schedule and it can get the best of anybody. So looking forward to having her back on the boards come Thursday night. In other news, we found out this week that there is a new stage musical adaptation of the Warner Brothers animated film Happy Feet. We don't really know anything about casting or timeline as of yet, but we do know that Tony winner Michael Arden will be handling the direction and Douglas Lyons will be writing the book. The choreography will be handled by the trio of Ayodele Cassel along with Lauren Yolango Grant and Christopher Cree Grant. This will be a jukebox musical pulling from some of the best songs from the films as well as other chart topping tunes. And you're thinking this is a movie about dancing penguins. How are they going to do that on stage? Well, we do know that there will be puppet design by Basil Twist, which if you're going to do puppets, Basil Twist is who you want handling those things. So this will be exciting to see what happens. This is yet another property being brought to the stage by Warner Brothers Theater Ventures, who are currently represented on Broadway by both Dog Day Afternoon and the Lost Boys, which Michael Arden also directs. So there's some connection there. They're also working on the adaptations for Crazy Rich Asians and Practical Magic as well. And finally, after a very short pop up cabaret performance in March, heated rivalry, the unauthorized musical parody will set its sights for a full off Broadway run this spring. It will play at what is now called the 6th Floor Theater, formerly known as the McItrick Hotel. Beginning performances on May 12th. It features a book and score by Dylan, Mark Aurelius and it will star Jay Armstrong Johnson and Jimin Moon Zachary. Noah Peyser had played Shane, which is the role that Jim and Moon is going to be playing during that concert. He has another gig coming up that will take him back to Broadway. It has not yet been announced, but he will be doing a show replacing somebody very soon, which I don't want to spoil that, but I will just say that Matthew Morrison and Jojo will not be the only people replacing Glee stars on Broadway here in the near future. Also in the cast for this eight week run will be Ryan Redmond, Cherry Torres and Ryan Duncan. All right, everybody, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you so much for supporting Broadway radio. If you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thanks again for listening. This has been Matt Tammanini and I'll talk to you soon.