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Welcome to your Broadway Radio Grosses report for Wednesday, January 14, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tamnini. This week, of course, is coming off of the incredible highs that had preceded us with the holidays both Christmas and then into New Year's. But for the week ending on January 11, Broadway had a total of 31 shows playing the boards engrossed $34,320,229. Now that was a significant decline over over the previous week that ended on January 4th. That was down 34% or just about $18 million. Of course, two shows had closed at the end of the week on the 4th, but overall that is still fairly good because compared to the same period January 6th through the 12th of 2025, this is actually up 7% in the grosses, or just about $2.2 million in total attendance last week was at 272,911, down 13% from last week but over the previous year and the average ticket price dropped over 40 bucks from the holiday week to come in at $125.76. As I had predicted at the beginning of 2025 we are seeing multiple shows north of $2 million on a regular basis and that continued last week with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child led by Tom Felton leading the way at $2,648,036. Hamilton was next at $2.2 million, followed by Wicked in third place at 2,075,000. In fourth place was Mamma Mia at 1.78 million and the Lion King at 1.71. Rounding out all of the shows north of $1 million in the previous week were Chess, Stranger Things, the first Shadow, Just in Time, Ragtime, MJ, the Great Gatsby, Aladdin, Death Becomes her, the Outsiders, and maybe Happy Ending with oh Mary Fairly close. I will point out that Bug had a fairly significant decline, dropping about $129,500. But they had two cancellations last week due to illnesses in the cast and they also had Opening night. So they came in at $317,330. They were the lowest grossing show on Broadway, but again down a couple shows as a whole across the main stem. Only three shows saw week to week increases and they are all plays. Which makes you think that perhaps the more local drama driven audiences were turning up now that things have gotten a little colder and a little less hectic with all the tourists. At the top of that list was oedipus, picking up $51,000 come in at 864,706 bucks. Then we had the show that had the largest increase last week and that was gratefully liberation. It grew 214,311 bucks, coming at a $639,035 clip, which is by far its high during its Broadway run. This show of course, closes on February 1, which is just a few weeks away. But it does feel like this is starting to gain some momentum. I have thought that the marketing for the show has been pretty good throughout. I think the timing has just been really hard for this show. A play that is not holiday driven, but opened, you know, right in the heart of the holiday season, had a relatively short, limited run, scheduled to be closing in January initially and then extended into February. For a show that I think most people that saw it off Broadway and then have now seen it on Broadway really like a lot and think is a contender for the Tony. Obviously it will be closing, but to see it picking up momentum now is gratifying. Not only because you want good things to succeed, but also could portend a little bit more of awards consideration if more people are seeing it now and having the opportunity to talk about it throughout the course of the spring. The other show that saw an increase was Marjorie prime, which again subscription house from a second stage. But it did pick up an even $29,000, coming at 382,918 bucks. This was the 33rd week of the 2526 Broadway season and season to date has grossed $1,233,962,457. That is up 8% over the corresponding week the previous year in total attendance is also up, but just about 3% to come in at 9,117,740 people who have come to Broadway this season. In total, Broadway saw about 92% of its seats filled, which is fantastic. 21 of the 31 shows that played last week saw capacity at 90% or more. Three were either right at or just barely above 100%. Capacity that was Wicked, Ragtime and Stranger Things. The first shadow between 100 and 101%. We had Hadestown, Mamma Mia and Hamilton. And then just In Time was almost lapping the field at 102.83% capacity. We of course are getting ready to head into the Two for One Broadway week, which is actually multiple weeks where you can get two tickets for the price of one regularly priced ticket. While that is certainly a great way for people to get in to see shows, since many of these shows will often offer discounts of some sort either through mailers or TKTS or TDF or anything else, it sometimes is not as big of a discount as you might think. But it is certainly an opportunity to grab more people from outside the regular theater going audience to come in and see shows. So we'll have one more set of grosses before that starts to kick in. It actually runs multiple weeks from January 20th through February 12th. So for the rest of this month and into the middle part of next month, we should see some bumps in not only attendance but also grosses as well, as these are great times for people in the Tri State area to get in to see shows that they might not be able to afford normally or might not even think to because of all the marketing happening now. So keep an eye on that and see how it impacts the grosses in the coming weeks. All right, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you for listening to this episode of Broadway Radio. If you want more Broadway Radio, head over to patreon.com broadway radio. This has been Matt Tamnini. We will talk to you soon and we'll see you at the. The.