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Hello and welcome to your Grosses report for Wednesday, February 4, 2026 on Broadway radio's Matt Tanani coming to you as we are leaving port in St Thomas on the Icon of the Seas. While I have been met with a little bit of cold and a little bit of rain over the past few days here on the cruise, it is much better than where many of you are around the country or at least were over the past week or so. But fortunately the fact that last week Broadway did not see any snow related cancellations, that means that all shows are running and we saw increases pretty much across the board. In total, we had 31 shows running, which was the same as the previous week and two more than in the corresponding week during the previous Broadway season. However, two shows did wrap up their runs this past Sunday. Those were of course Mamma Mia. And Liberation. We will talk about those here in a second. In total, Broadway's grosses came in at $31,766,855. That is up 6% from the previous week. Obviously that was influenced by all of the cancellations and snow related travel limitations that people had to get into the city. It is also still 2% up from the previous year. In total, Broadway had 269,655 people come and see a show last week that is up 8% over the previous week and 4% over the year before. The average ticket price actually went down though to $117.81 and you might be wondering why that is. It's because it's Broadway week. We have the two for one ticket sales going on right now, meaning that while we will see attendance pick little bit over the next week or so, the average ticket price could drop down a little bit because people are getting essentially half off for two tickets now, leading the way as it has been since Tom Felton joined the cast as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The only show north of $2 million this week coming in at 2,364,698 bucks. It is followed by Hamilton at just a smidge over 1.9 million. Mamma mia. In its final week on Broadway doing $1.8 million, it actually saw an increase of over 392,000 over the previous week. So a really good note to for the folks over at the Winter Garden then wicked was in fourth at 1.6 and the Lion King at 1.5. The rest of the show's north of seven figures in descending order are Stranger Things, the first shadow chess just in time Ragtime, O Mary and MJ Aladdin was pretty close as well. We mentioned Mamma Mia. The other show that closed last week was Liberation. And even though it has kind of struggled during its run on Broadway, the best Wall play was able to wrap up its run with its highest grossing week over the James Earl Jones Theater. It a very, very solid $734,237, up just about $195,000 over the previous week. Again, snow related and all of that. The biggest dip last week actually came from maybe happy ending, but that's because it only did seven shows. It came in at $711,055. It will be interesting to see what happens when this show gets new stars. I have not heard anything about who will be replacing Helen Jason or Darren Criss. But it will be interesting to see if people, they, they get some people that have some sort of notoriety because obviously Darren Chris's star power helped get this show going and helped keep it going when it opened in the fall of 2024 and really seemed dead in the water for a long time. But because of Darren Criss's star power, because of really good word of mouth, because of good social media campaigns, it was able to keep going. And I do have to hope that that has built up some really good will in the community and good word of mouth for people that are gonna be coming into the city. But I would not be surprised if they tried to find some actors of Asian descent to play those two roles to keep the show going even more. In total, 21 of Broadway's 31 shows played to 90% capacity or more. But again, there was only one show that was over 100%. And this time it was just in time. And it was lower than it has been quite in quite a while at 100.56%. Again, really slow time of year. January and into February on Broadway are very slow. It's cold, I don't have to tell you that. And there's not a lot of like holidays for people to come into. Obviously we'll have Valentine's Day and President's Day and all of these things coming up. So hopefully there's a little bit of a tourist bump in there to help these shows stay afloat a little bit longer, but not getting these sellouts. Even though in total Broadway was over about 91% capacity for the entire week. This was Broadway's 36th week of the 2025, 2026 season. And in total so far it has grossed $1,330,375,458. That is up 8% over the previous year. And attendance is getting dangerously close to 10 million people for the season. It is currently set at 9,912,740 people, up 3% over last year's total in the corresponding week. Now, we will have a few more shows closing between now and when the next lot of shows begin performances. In terms of things, beginning performances, we don't have another one until the 6th of March, and that'll be Death of a Salesman at the Winter Garden. Then we'll have just a few days later, Dog Day Afternoon beginning over the August Wilson Theater on March 10th. So it's going to be a little bit of a while until we start to have some other shows helping out with the grosses and kind of us figuring out what is going to look like for the rest of the season. But overall, at least from a financial standpoint, Broadway is doing fairly well, holding its own despite some of the adverse weather conditions that we've seen in previous weeks. All right, everybody, that's all that I have for you today. As always, if you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thank you for listening. This has been Matt Timminenti, and I'll talk to you soon. Sat.