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Welcome to your Grosses Report episode from Broadway radio for Wednesday, March 11, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tammanini. On today's episode, I'll be breaking down all of the numbers, the data and the analysis that comes with the 41st week of the 2025, 2026 Broadway season, the one that wrapped up on Sunday, March 8th. Fortunately, it appears that all of the issues dealing with the winter storm that plagued Broadway over the previous two weeks were primarily wrapped up heading into last week. So it was a much more steady and stable week on Broadway. In total, 28 shows were on the boards and they brought in 28,123,874 bucks. That is up 8% over the previous week, which is just a little under $2.1 million. Of course, last week was still plagued with all of the long reaching ramifications of that winter storm. Interestingly enough though, this is actually down 1% from the corresponding week a year ago. Even at that time only 26 shows were on Broadway. However, attendance was up last week by 17,500 people to come in at 238,988 butts in seats, up 8% and also up 1% over the previous year. The average ticket price remained steady at $117.68. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continued to be the top grossing show on the boards, bringing in $2,453,970. It was followed by Hamilton at 1.8, just in time, just under 1.6, Chicago at 1.4 and Wicked also at 1.4, just a little bit down. The rest of the shows north of seven figures in descending order are the Lion King, the Great Gatsby and Jeremy Jordan's final week in the show, Chess. Every brilliant thing who admittedly did do it in nine performances, MJ Ragtime and Stranger Things. The first Shadow, which actually did it in just seven performances, so keep that in mind. And then the Outsiders was very close, just on the outside looking in. The one show joining Broadway last week was the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman starring Laurie Metcalfe and Nathan Lane that began previews at the Winter Garden Theater and had just two shows last week, but in total it brought in $329,821. Extrapolated over an eight show week that turns into a little bit more than $1.3 million. Of course two shows wrapped up their runs on Broadway last week, all out comedy about ambition and Bug had especially significant jumps in grosses other than from the fact that the previous week was hampered by the snow bug brought in $424,743 up 113k all out saw about $105,000 increase to come in at $695,210. Only three shows on Broadway last week saw week to week declines. The top grossing one was Chess, but it only lost $6,700. Stranger Things the first shadow did drop a quarter of a million dollars, but that of course had to do with the fact that it only had seven shows and then Hadestown actually fell $427,126. This was the first week of the new cast for Hadestown, so there was obviously quite a bit of interest in seeing the Jack Wolf led group wrap up their run at the Walter Kerr if you love Hadestown and want to hear two Hadestown superfans, dive deep into all of the replacement castings that have happened on Broadway and then the cast on tour and around the world, head over to our Patreon, Ashley Hufford and I draft our favorite non original Broadway company cast members from Hadestown in an attempt to try to select the best five principals. It was a ton of fun. We got into some very cool discussions about different people who have played these roles over the years. So if you're interested in that, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio in total, 20 of Broadway's 28 shows last week played to 90% capacity or more, but only four were at complete sellouts or standing room only. Death of a Salesman was at 100%, Hamilton was just a tick over and Hadestown was just under 101%, even though it did see those grosses decline just in Time was of course the top capacity leader at 102.45%. Again, this was the 41st week of the 20252026 Broadway season. In total, the Great White Way has brought in $1,479,838,974 during this season. That is up 7% over the corresponding time period in last season. In total attendance was also up, but just 3% to come in at 11,118,790 people so far. Now before I wrap up the show, I did want to run you through a few little bits of news that have come out since James and I did our 10th anniversary episode of Today on Broadway earlier this week. I have teased that I have heard that Evita will be coming to Broadway and will be playing the winter Garden Theater. Recently, Andrew Lloyd Webber did an interview with USA Today in which he said they are still hoping to bring the show to Broadway, considering all of the great fanfare that it had in London, including some what's On Stage awards that just happened this past weekend. But he does seem to throw a wet blanket over the possibility of them recreating the iconic outdoor balcony scene that they did in London. He said, quote, it's an extraordinary production. The one thing that absolutely cannot happen is what we did in London on the balcony. We can't do that in New York. I mean, something awful could happen. We have gun laws in Britain. I mean, it's tough to argue with the logic there, especially given Rachel Zegler's outspoken political stances that have gotten numerous people in numerous groups fairly angry at her over the years for various reasons. I think that'd be really disappointing. Obviously they were able to do the Sunset Walk with Tom Francis with Sunset Boulevard. Again, very different thing. When you are asking people to congregate on a New York City street in big groups with no metal detectors or security, maybe they'll figure out a way to do that. I think I would be shocked if Jamie Lloyd didn't come up with a way to make that happen. But Andrew Lloyd Barber is not only the writer of the show, he is also one of the main producers of any show of his. So I don't think he is just making things up without there being some truth behind it. In some pretty fun Broadway casting news this morning. On Wednesday it was announced that Issa Briones is going to be joining the Broadway company of Just In Time in like three weeks. Actually, three weeks from today. She will take over the role of Connie Francis from Sarah Hyland on April 1st. She will be joining the production ahead of the premiere of not only Jeremy Jordan who takes over the role on April 1, but Carrie St. Louis will take over the role of Sandra D. From Sadie Dickerson on that date as well. Issa will be joining the production on the same day that Tony Award winner Debbie Gravett will take over the role of Polly from Michelle Paul. And then in not surprising news whatsoever, we've actually talked about this previously, but on Tuesday it was announced that Dancing with the stars three time champion Mark Ballas will reunite with his season 34 partner Whitney Levitt for a limited engagement in Chicago on Broadway. We previously discussed the fact that Whitney was doing her run, leaving and then coming back for a few weeks. We all kind of knew that it was because Mark was going to be joining the production. And while most people know Mark from Dancing with the Stars, this is not going to be his first time on Broadway. And he's actually been in two musicals before. You might think, oh, he was in Burn the Floor or something. No, he was not. He played Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys on Broadway. And he was also in Kinky Boots on Broadway. So he will take over as Billy Flynn for four weeks beginning on Monday, April 6th. Alright, everybody, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you for supporting Broadway radio. If you want more Broadway radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thanks again for listening. This has been Matt Tamnini and I'll talk to you soon. Sam.