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welcome to your Broadway Grosses report for Wednesday, February 25, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tifoneni. I am diving into all of the box office numbers for the 39th week of the 20252026 Broadway season. And as we discussed on last week on Broadway, things were once again interrupted by a snowstorm in and around New York City. So the grosses did in total take a bit of a hit. But fortunately, only eight of Broadway's 28 shows lost performances last week because only shows on Sunday, February 22, the final day of the 39th week of the season, were all canceled. But in many cases, all of the shows played their total allotted number of performances last week. So while there was a dip, it wasn't as big as it could have been had all of Sunday's performances been canceled or even more been canceled throughout the course of the weekend. But in total, we had 28 shows playing on Broadway. That was because Stranger Things, the first Shadow, had not played public performances the week before because they were doing filming. So it it was back as well as the Daniel Radcliffe led Every Brilliant Thing, which we will talk about here in a little bit. But in total, 28 shows on the boards that brought in a gross of $31,554,841. That was down just a little over $2 million from the previous week, or 6%, but still up 13% over the corresponding week in last calendar year, the calendar year of 2025, that was at about $3.4 $3.6 million more than last year. In total, attendance dropped 2% week to week, coming at 242,027 people. That's still up 4% from last year as well. And ticket prices were down Almost a full $6 to come in at $130.38. But as with a lot of these Trends, up nearly $10 from last year. Unsurprisingly, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continued to be the top grossing show on Broadway last week, pull $570,906. Hamilton also was above 2 million at 2.14 million. The Lion King was very close at 1.92, followed by Wicked at 1.6, and then Stranger Things, the first shadow at 1.58, despite the fact that it only played seven performances. In fact, both Wicked and Stranger Things were both in the top five with only seven performances last week. The rest of the show's north of seven figures, in descending order, were just in time. Hell's Kitchen, during its final week on Broadway. MJ Chicago, Aladdin, the Great Gatsby, Hadestown, Ragtime, Operation Mincemeat, we'll get back to that. The Outsiders, Moulin Rouge, and maybe Happy Ending. As I mentioned, Operation mincemeat did clear $1 million. It was at 1.1 million. That is the first time in the show's run on, on Broadway that it has gotten into the seven figures club. And what's crazy about that is that, yes, it did eight performances, but it did have a ninth performance scheduled as we talked about on last week on Broadway. They had to cancel that performance and instead did a concert of all of the songs in the show featuring the original Broadway cast, including three of the show's writers who have departed the show now. And the all American cast is now going to be performing, performing throughout this week. That concert is available on social media, on YouTube. You can find it. So if you want to be able to see all of those incredible stars, the people who are instrumental in the creation of this show, either on page or on stage, you can absolutely do that. And as I said, Hell's Kitchen marked its Broadway closing last week as well. It did get a full eight shows in and had a very good week, was up $213,000 and was just shy of 99% capacity. Now, I mentioned Daniel Radcliffe coming back to Broadway in every brilliant thing. He just did two shows over at the Hudson Theater. And if you follow our own Grace Sacke on social media, you know that he had a little chat with Grace and F before the show on stage because they were sitting in the front row in the onstage seats. But for just two performances, they did $304,427. So if you extrapolate that over the normal eight show week, that would come in at roughly $1.2 million. It is at the Hudson. It's a smaller theater, although they do add some seats on stage. So I don't expect it to get like in a $2 million range. But if this can continually pull in 1.2 to $1.5 million, that would be a huge success for a one person show like this, even with a star like Daniel Radcliffe, that would be pretty, pretty impressive. In total, 22 of Broadway's 28 shows played to 90% capacity or more. Every Brilliant Thing was at 100%. Chicago and Stranger Things. The first, Shadow and Hamilton were all between 100 and 101%. Hadestown was a little bit over at 101.38 and then just in time, continually leading the way at 103.21% again. This was the 39th week of the Broadway season. So far during this season, Broadway has grossed $1,425,678,511. That is right about 8% more than the Great White Way had brought in during the corresponding time period last season. Attendance is also up 3% to come in at 10,658,235 butts in seats. Now keep in mind that yes, there were shows that were canceled on Sunday night, but there were also shows that are canceled on Monday night. So that will continue to impact next week's grosses. Shows that canceled performances already this week were Chicago, Every Brilliant Thing, the Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the cursed child and 6 Chicago has already added an additional performance. They weren't going to let a performance with their latest box office draw Whitney Levitt escape them. So this snowstorm that happened in and around the New York City area will continue to impact Broadway grosses and box offices for at least another week and hopefully things get back to normal and the Northeast and everywhere else in the country doesn't have to deal with with any dramatic inclement weather for the rest of the season. All right everybody, that's all that I have for you today. As always, thank you for supporting Broadway radio. If you want more Broadway radio, head over patreon.com broadwayradio thanks as always for listening. This has been Matt Tamnini and I'll talk to you soon.
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