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Hello everybody and welcome to your Broadway Grosses Report for the week ending on January 25, 2026 on Broadway radio is Matt Tammaneni. I probably don't have to tell you that this is not going to be the biggest Broadway grosses that we have talked about in the recent past. Obviously the entire Midwest and Northeast was blanketed with a heavy snowstorm that included New York City. And even if a bunch of Broadway shows had not canceled performances, the likelihood that people would have been in the seats was fairly minimal. Only 17 of Broadway's 31 shows last week played a full eight show week. In total, Broadway brought in $29,950,531. That's down 14% from the previous week, but still up 1% over the corresponding week in 2025. In total, attendance was down just about 24,000 people to come in at 250,682, down 9%. And the average ticket price also dropped about $5 to come in at $119.48. Now, despite the fact that all of this craziness happened last week and the fact that it only played seven shows, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was still able to bring in over $2 million leading the way at 2,124,053 bucks. Hamilton ad an eight show week was pretty close behind at $1,948,375. It was followed in the top five by Wicked at 1.79 million, Mamma Mia at 1.4 and Chess at 1.4 as well. Of note, Mamma Mia only did seven shows, so on average probably would have been a bit higher as well. The rest of the shows north of seven figures in descending order are Just In Time, Stranger Things, the First Shadow, the Lion King, and maybe Happy Ending. Of course it is pretty difficult to compare apples to apples with all of this, but these types of weeks will happen every year and it really kind of is bad luck that it happened over the weekend, at least in terms of the grosses, because it could have knocked out, you know, it could have hit on a Monday and most shows were dark. But this did happen over the weekend. So in addition to the canceled performances, a lot of people probably curtailed their travel and willingness to head into the city while the snowstorm was on its way. Of note, we did see one major jump last week and that was with Just In Time with Jonathan Groff returning to the role of Bobby Darin following his pre planned week of vacation in which Matt Magnussen took On the role, just in time did come in at just under $1.4 million. This was the 35th week of the 2025, 2026 season. And in total, Broadway has brought in $1,298,608,603. That is still up about 8% over last time with a total attendance up 3% at 9,643,085 people. Of course, these numbers are down as well, but 17 of Broadway's 31 shows did play to capacity to 90% or more, but over only one show was north of 100%. And that was just in time. That came in at 101.74% capacity. Now, a lot of conversation has been happening over the past few days, the past week around producers canceling performances for shows about Actors Equity and the Broadway League, encouraging patrons who might be local and not have to do nearly as much travel to come into shows while there is, you know, heavy storms either happening or on their way because they can get cheaper tickets. A number of shows, from what I understand, ended up canceling performances because of how many call outs they had, not just from from cast, but from crew and from front of house just because they couldn't make it to the theater. Obviously, whatever your job is, you should be able to feel safe that you can get to work and do your job without having to worry about massive delays or getting stranded or potentially much worse, freezing to death or anything like that. And it really isn' incumbent on the producers and the theater owners and all of the companies that manage individual workers in the different buildings in and around Broadway to make sure that they are taking care of their workers. Obviously, Broadway and theater is such a finite product, they can't just say, okay, well, we didn't sell a show today, so we'll just make sure that we sell it tomorrow when people are back out and able to to travel into the city. That's not how it works. Once a show is gone, you can't make that up. So I understand wanting to maximize your profits, but if you can't guarantee that your workers are safe during something like this, you can't guarantee that your audience is safe. And that in turn makes for a worse experience going to the theater if people think, well, I spent all this money on a ticket, I should probably go, since they aren't canceling this performance and you know, it makes for a bad experience. So keeping the safety of the workers and the audience members should be first and foremost. And I understand it's a difficult call to make, but hopefully the next time this happens, they can be a little bit more judicious in making that call ahead of time and protecting all of the people that are important to the Broadway ecosystem, whether they are being paid to be there or they are the ones actually doing the pain. All right, everybody, obviously a short grosses because there's not a whole lot to break down with everything that happened last week. But we appreciate you listening. If you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thanks again for listening and supporting us, and we'll talk to you soon.