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welcome to your Broadway Grosses report for Wednesday, March 4, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tamneni and I'm going to be running you through all of the numbers and data and analysis that goes with the 40th week of the 20252026 Broadway season. As I mentioned last week, despite the fact that only a handful of shows were actually closed due to the winter storm, that broad blanketed the Tri State area with snow a little over a week, week and a half ago, the impacts of that storm did play a major part in Broadway attendance and in turn on the box office. In total, there were 27 shows playing on the main stem last week and their grosses dropped 17% over $5.5 million to come in at 26,036,589 bucks. Attendance also dropped 8%, about 20,500 people to come in at 221,567. But in seats, average ticket price also dropped nearly $13 or 10% to come in at $117.51. Obviously, looking at the previous week and then even further back to the corresponding week during the previous season, this is a little bit of an aberration because of the winter storm, but winter storms happen every year. This is par for the course. This is something that is baked into the overall numbers. But when you look back at the week that ended on March 2nd of 2025 versus the one that ended on March 1st of 2026, grosses were down 4%, attendance down 3%, and the average ticket price down 1%. So that shows you that despite all of the implications of a handful of closed shows, but then the difficulty with travel, the snow that was built up making it hard for people to get into town, and then people who might have otherwise wanted to very well might have called off their plans or rescheduled. So overall, essentially flat from last year, but down significantly from the previous week despite that fact, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child did make over $2 million and you're thinking, okay that's fine, of course it did. But what makes that even more interesting is that they only did seven performances last week. Nonetheless, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came in at $2,159,398. That is down over 411,000 from the previous week, but still pretty imp impressive considering that they did not get their eighth performance in. In second place was Hamilton at 1.76 million, just in time in third at 1.48, the Lion King in fourth at 1.33 and Wicked rounding out the top five at 1.3 million. The rest of the shows north of seven figures in descending order are Hadestown, which saw a very healthy $160,000 bump come in at 1.3 million during the final week of the principal cast that was led by Jack Wolfe as Orpheus. As I mentioned previously, later this week I'm going to have an incredibly in depth conversation with Hadestown expert Ashley Hufford, where she and I go back and forth and draft the best possible principal cast outside of the OBC that we can. If I pick somebody as Orpheus, she can't pick him. Vice versa, all the way back and forth and we come up with some really, really great lists and talk about our favorite principal casts from that show over the years. But getting back to the grosses, stranger things, the first shadow also did well at 1.28 million. Chicago only did seven shows. The power of Whitney Levitt keeps it up there. And then that was followed by Chess, the last show north of seven figures. That one actually saw the biggest jump on Broadway last week outside of every Brilliant Thing that went from two previews to seven previews. But that is because Lea Michele came back from her week long vacation. Bryce Pinkham's Cold War musical went up nearly $382,000, coming at 1.17 million. As I said, Every Brilliant Thing went from two previews to seven. They did have an eighth show scheduled, but that was canceled on Monday night because of the snow. So that was very close to $1,000,000 at 980,000. So far this season, Broadway has grossed 1,451,715,100 dol 7% over the first 40 weeks of the previous season. Attendance comes in at 10,879,802 people in Broadway houses up 3% over the previous year. So overall last week, the week ending on March 1, 2026 wasn't exactly a banner week for Broadway. But that makes sense because of all of the implications of the Snowstorm that blanketed New York City over the previous weekend. Nonetheless, as we move forward into March, we're going to start seeing more new Broadway shows begin performances. Things start to open. Every brilliant thing opens next week. And with all of that, of course, the grosses will likely improve quite a bit. But it'll be interesting to see which of these shows that begins performances in the coming weeks really hits with audiences. There are some that I think will, there are some that I think won't, and some that I will be very happy to be wrong about. So we will keep an eye on that. As you know, I normally like to throw in any big news that has come up over the previous days. Since last week on Broadway, there isn't anything major, but I will let you know that two pretty fun Broadway stars have been announced to be joining the cast of Just in Time on Broadway. They are Tony Award and Grammy Award winner Debbie Graven, who will replace Michelle Pa as Paulie. And then Carrie St. Louis, who will succeed Sadie Dickerson, who I didn't know, but I really liked when I saw her in the role of Sandra D. Debbie will begin performances on April 1st. Carrie will begin performances on April 21st. As we have talked about quite a bit, Matthew Morrison will begin performances on April 1, so he will start with Debbie Gravett and then Jeremy Jordan will start on April 21st along with Carrie. I need to go and look. I Did they ever do Rock of Ages together? Jeremy Jordan and Carrie St. Louis, both rock of ages on Broadway. I wonder if they ever overlapped. Our friend Rob Johnston probably knows that with his encyclopedic knowledge of his hundreds of times seeing Rock of Ages. I wonder if Jeremy and Carrie are gonna have a little bit of a reunion over in the basement of Wicked coming up in about a month and a half. Alright everybody, I've got some episodes coming up that I want to make sure that you're aware of. I mentioned the Hadestown principal cast draft that I did with Ashley Huffer. That'll be coming up later this week. Later today tonight I will be giving you my review of the Hell's Kitchen national tour that I saw the Dr. Phillips center for the Performing Arts. And then coming up on Sunday, it will not be last week on Broadway, it will be today on Broadway because James Marino and I will be recording an episode on Sunday, March 8, the Monday, March 9 episode, which will mark 10 years to the day since we recorded our first episode of Today on Broadway. So it'll be an anniversary episode coming out on Sunday night. And Patreon and Monday on the regular feed. So make sure that you stay close to your podcast feeds for that. All right, everybody, that is 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 Tamanini and I'll talk to you soon. Sam.