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Welcome to your Broadway Grosses report for Wednesday, February 11, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tamminini. I'm coming to you with all of the information that you need for the 36th week of the 20252026 Broadway season, the one that ended on Sunday, February 8th. In total, there were 29 shows that played last week. That is down two from the previous week. That is because of course, both Mamma Mia. And Liberation closed things out. The previous week in total, Broadway saw $30,170,014 come through the ticket gates. That is down about 5% or a little under $1.6 million. However, it is still 7% higher than the corresponding week during 2025. Similarly, attendance dropped by 5% as well to come in at 256,752 people, just a smidge under 13,000 less than the previous seven day period, but still 4% up over last year. The average ticket price though remained pretty steady, dropped just three dimes to come in at 117,051 bucks, up 4% over last year. Looking at the shows themselves, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continues to lead the way at $2,339,937, although it did dip about 25k from the previous week. Hamilton was next at just under $1.85 million. Wicked was in third at 1.6 ish, the Lion King was at 1.5 and Stranger Things. The First Shadow was at almost exactly 1.4 million. The rest of the show's north of seven figures in descending order are Chess, Chicago, Just In Time, Oedipus, and its final week on Broadway. We'll come back to them, Ragtime, MJ and maybe Happy Ending. Now Oedipus, of course wrapped up its run over at Studio 54 last week and in doing so it set a new house record for the Studio 54 to come in at $1,212,949. That include a 279,616 buck improvement from the previous week. But as good as that jump is, it is not the biggest that we saw on Broadway last week that went to Chicago. Thanks without any doubt to the presence of Whitney Levitt, late of Dancing with the Stars and I believe still currently a member of the Secret Wives of Mormon Lives cast. Chicago really, really does well when it brings in reality stars and it feels like they have landed on another good one. Not only because she is popular and she's on a show that everybody seems to really like, even though from what I understand, she's kind of the villain of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But she has a theater background. Like, she was an actor and a dancer and obviously did very well on Dancing with the Stars. But the fact that it was at $659,765 last week and it's now at 1.3 million, yeah, just wild. Good for them. But also in between Chicago and Oedipus actually was maybe happy ending, which also fairly healthy improvement to come in at $311,686 more than it had been the last week. Now, the biggest drop actually was a little bit of a surprise because that was at Omari over at the Lyceum Theater. That, of course, was the first week of John Cameron Mitchell's run in the bratty curled wig. Now, they still did very well in terms of attendance at 96.55%. But to come in at $845,264 was almost $209,000 down from the previous week. A lot of that in these transitions will be as much about the new people coming in as it is actually about the people who are leaving. So I think that they are still doing just fine over at the Lyceum Theater. Speaking of attendance, there were actually 23 of the 29 shows on Broadway that played a 90% capacity or more. You'll remember, I think last week there was only one show that was above 100%. This week we had three. Ragtime was actually right at 100%. Oedipus was sold out, but just barely at 100.16%. And then just in time, down in the basement of Wicked continues to lead the way at 101.32%. As I said at the top of the show, this was Broadway's 36th week of the 2025, 2026 season. In total, Broadway has brought in $1,360,545,472. That is up 8% over the corresponding time period last season. And total attendance is up 3% to come in at 10,169,492. Folks, I know the weather in New York has been awful, and that obviously plays a large part of it. I am starting to see people bust out their shorts and T shirts now that New York City is above freezing, barely. So hopefully that will also help improve things across the board in terms of attendance. Again, we are still, I believe in the last week or so of the two for one Broadway week, so that will obviously help keep some of these attendances high. And you know, I really was interested. I'm starting to plan my trips for New York for this spring and as I was going through a lot of the shows, we don't have nearly as many shows opening in March as we have in previous years. Normally there's a good handful of 4, 5, 6 shows beginning performances in February and then opening in March. This year they are almost all completely March beginnings or even early April beginnings with April opening. So it's really tough to see that big boost coming in after Broadway week is over, but nonetheless still good to see that Broadway Week is doing the job that it was designed for. Now, normally I would separate these, but because the grossest episodes are usually shorter, we do have some news on the Broadway and it's pretty exciting because there will be a new musical playing the Shubert Theater coming up this fall and it stars two of my absolute favorites. The musical is Galileo, when it will begin performances at the Shubert on November 10 ahead of a December 6 opening and it stars the one and only Raul Esparza as the title character, Galileo Galilee. Starring alongside him will be both Joy woods, another one of my favorites, and Jeremy Kushner. The book was written by Danny Strong, also known as Doyle to Gilmore Girls fans, but he's also represented on Broadway currently with Chess and the original score is by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner. The direction will be handled by Michael Mayer and choreography will be done by David Newman. This will be the first time that Raul Esparza has been on Broadway in 13 years since Leap of Faith. He didn't have a very good time with Leap of Faith. He had voiced some concerns and I think a lot of people were suspect whether he would ever end up back on Broadway again. But he is a four time Tony Award nominee and someone who, you know, if I'm being quite honest with you, he's the type of guy who if this show is good and I have no doubt that he's going to be good, you know, whether material supports a Tony nomination or not. But if he's like in the top three for this, I feel like he could be somebody who kind of gets the extra push over the edge for kind of like that lifetime achievement kind of award. So love Raul. He has certainly added some more fans thanks to his role on the Law and Order Special Victims Unit, as I think he might have crossed over to other ones. But this should be very exciting. It had an out of town tryout at Berkeley Rep last year and we'll see what happens with it. I. I don't know a whole lot about it. I had some friends who went and saw it and said, needs some work, but it is still good and it has the opportunity to be great, which is what you want to do with an out of town try if you have. I always am a little suspect when people are like, this show is great out of town because then you have to think like, okay, maybe they're not going to do anything. Maybe they're not going to like really make any big changes. And I think all shows need to make big changes when before they come to Broadway. Because let's be quite honest, critics and audiences out of town are different than the ones you have in New York. They're not nearly as critical, either critics or audiences. And I think, you know, as bad as it sounds, Broadway audiences are much more discerning. And what's interesting about that is I'm not even just talking about local New York audiences, but the people who go to Broadway are expect a little bit more. So we will see what happens when the show begins performances later this year at the Shubert Theatre. But what's interesting is it's not coming in this spring. So we know that Hell's Kitchen is closing very soon. We don't know what's going to happen in the Shubert between the closing of Hell's Kitchen and the opening of Galileo. I still have heard some rumors that there might be a little buggy play going in there in short order, but it only has about a month left in its current home. And I just have to wonder, like, how long are they going to wait to do it if they're going to make that announcement. So maybe the Shubert will be empty from March through November or whenever they start to move in, probably in October. But I think that would be kind of a waste. He could have probably just ridden a little bit more of the tourist wave with Hell's Kitchen through the spring and into the summer. So I have to imagine if that show is closing, which it obviously is, that somebody wants it for the spring. So I think we will probably get a limited run of something in their asap. And I'm just hoping that we will have that announcement sooner rather than later. All right, everybody, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you as always for supporting us here at Broadway Radio. If you want more Broadway Radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thanks for listening. This has been Matt Tammanini and we'll talk to you soon.