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Call New York City’s recent weather what you want – bomb cyclone, blizzard, or plain old snowstorm – but it definitely chilled Broadway‘s box office over the weekend. Receipts for the week ending Sunday February 22 were down 6% from the previous week, settling at $31,554,841 – and that’s with a 28-show roster, one more than the previous week.
Attendance was off just 2 percent, though, at 242,027, suggesting that a decent turnout for much of the week helped offset those Sunday night cancellations caused by the 18-inch pile-up.
In all, eight of the 28 shows lost a performance (many productions are dark on Sunday nights anyway), and most took significant box office blows. Reporting drops were the seven-performance productions & Juliet (down $195,292 from the previous week to $662,807), All Out: Comedy About Ambition ($77,149 to $622,193); a sold-out Chicago (down $169,110 to $1,240,983); Oh, Mary! (down $216,345 to $711,581), The Book of Mormon (down $234,496 to $753,920) and Wicked (down $408,223 to $1,616,106).
Hell’s Kitchen played its usual eight-performance week as it saw its final curtain on a pre-blizzard Sunday afternoon, selling out 99% of the week’s seats at the Shubert for a gross of $1,438,730 – the Alicia Keys musical’s biggest take since the December holidays of 2024.
Also bucking the downward trend was Operation Mincemeat, which had planned a nine-performance week to see off its original British cast before tonight’s all-American replacements take over. The loss of the planned final performance on Sunday evening left the OGs with a sold-out eight show week and a fine going-away gross of $1,107,825, up $150,105 from the previous week. The Brits did play an audience-free concert-style livestream Sunday evening as a celebratory farewell to fans.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, even with losing the Sunday night performance, grossed $1,584,338 for seven shows, an increase over the previous week of, well, $1,584,338 – public performances for the earlier week were scotched while the cast was performing for cameras for a future film release.
New to the roster was Every Brilliant Thing, the Duncan Macmillan-Jonny Donahoe solo play starring Daniel Radcliffe. With a planned third preview canceled, Radcliffe got in two performances for his first week at the Hudson, selling out and grossing $304,427. Opening night is March 12.
Other sell-outs for the week were Chicago, Hadestown, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Just in Time, Operation Mincemeat and Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Coming close, at 99% of seats filled, were Hell’s Kitchen, Moulin Rouge! and Ragtime.
Top earners for the week were Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ($2,570,906), Hamilton ($2,139,682), The Lion King ($1,923,682), Wicked ($1,616,106), Stranger Things ($1,584,338) and Just in Time ($1,508,060). Only Bug, Chess and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) saw attendance dip below the 80% of capacity mark.
Season to date, Broadway, in the 39th week of the 2025-26 season, has grossed$1,425,678,511, up about 8% over last year at this time, with total attendance of10,658,235up 3%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For more box office information visitthe League’s website.