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Hello and welcome to your Broadway Grosses episode of Broadway Radio for the week ending on January 18, 2026 on Broadway radio's Matt Tammanini as we dive into last week's grosses report, obviously a little bit delayed because of the holiday, but for the week running from January 12th through January 18th of 2026, there were 31 shows running on Broadway the same as the previous week and the grosses more or less stayed the same with just about a 1% increase change, which we'll talk about here in a minute. In total, Broadway brought in $34,695,615. That is $375,000 more than the previous week. Attendance also rose a corresponding 1% coming at 274,663 but in seats and the average ticket price increased incrementally. I believe that is 54 cents if I'm doing my math correctly to come in at $126.32. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child again continues to be the top show on the grosses ladder this week bringing in $2,652,673 followed by Hamilton which was also north of $2,000,000 at 2.19. Then we had Wicked in third at 1.94 and Mamma Mia just slightly behind at 1.94 as well. And then Stranger Things, the first Shadow rounding things out at $1.74 million in the top five. The rest of the shows north of seven figures in descending order are Chess, the Lion King, MJ, Ragtime, Death Becomes her, maybe Happy Ending, oh Mary, the Outsiders, Aladdin, the Great Gatsby and Hadestown. The biggest riser of all last week was Bug over at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater with its post opening word of mouth being very very good. We heard Grace Ake tell us about how much she loves this production. It saw its grosses increase nearly $256,000 to come in at 573,000 dol. 302 bucks. Very good for the fairly small Friedman. And also of course this is in a subscription house, a not for profit theater, so its financial situation is much different than any of the commercial houses on Broadway. Now I did mention that there was one fairly big change on Broadway last week and that was over at the basement of Wicked at Circle in the Square Theater where Jonathan Groff had taken a pre planned week of vacation. But Matt Magnussen, who I've heard is tremendous in the role, stepped and while attendance was still very good at just in time not as good as it had been, but came in at nearly 92.5%. The grosses did see a rather sizable decline, dropping 911,970 bucks to come in at $544,378, the third lowest total on Broadway last week. Of course we have talked about the fact that Grof will be wrapping up his run in March and that I have heard a certain somebody who loves him some green lights might be heading over to the same building as Wicked fairly soon. If that's the case, I think the grosses will continue to be good. I don't know if they'll be as good as Grof, but we will have to wait and see. That decrease for just in time represents a 63% dip from the previous week, with the average ticket price dropping from $256.58 to $106.72. Last week was the 34th in the 20252026 season and in total the Great White Way has brought in $1,268,658,072. That is up about 8% over the corresponding week of the previous season. In total attendance is up 3% as well to come in at 9,392,503 people so far seeing Broadway shows this season, just over half of Broadway shows. Sixteen of the 31 saw grosses come in at $1 million and in terms of 90% capacity, 21 of the 31 shows were north of that mark with wicked right at 100%, Hadestown just a bit over and then Hamilton leading the way at 101.03%. Obviously that is generally just in times benchmark, but with Jonathan Groff out, that was not the case this week. I do want to shout out the fact that Mamma Mia. Continues to do incredible business. Over at the Winter Garden Theater, it was again just under $2 million and with the show wrapping up in early February and it going back on the road, obviously we know that it's not going to extend anymore. They have tour stops that are going to be coming up and the House is obviously spoken for. I just have to wonder if this makes producers interested in maybe setting up a actual full revival production on Broadway. As I'm scrolling through the grosses from when it launched back in August, obviously other than the first week when there was just one performance, I don't think that it has grossed less than $1.4 million. Yes, I'm going through all of these. It is grossed less than one and a half million dollars just once and it's been over $2 million four times. So I just went wonder if this show might have more life on Broadway in a different production, maybe one that comes back next season and sets up a full open ended run. Obviously they've shown that the stars don't necessarily matter with a production on Broadway. This has been the tour cast, which is excellent, but there's no big names or anything like that. So I'm interested to see what happens with this or if we start to see more of this type of tour, set up shop on Broadway. We obviously saw it with Beetlejuice recently as well and we've seen it a number of times over the years. But this was just such a good financial run that it seems to me that it would be leaving money on the table if they didn't find a way to do it again. Whether it's the same show or not. But this is an all out, incredible success for this run on Broadway. All right, everybody, that's all that I have for this Grosses Report episode of Broadway Radio. If you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thank you again for listening and we will talk to you soon.