Forget Tony season for a minute. Last week’s most impressive Broadway box office number was scored by none other than the two-year-old Oh, Mary!, freshened up for the spring with the arrival of new star Maya Rudolph.
In her Broadway debut, Rudolph, as the title character, boosted the weekly gross of Oh, Mary! to $1,540,980, a record for both the production and the Lyceum Theatre. The single-performance take for Friday, May 1, was $199,935, another house record.
The Cole Escola comedy was one of six productions (out of 40) to sell out the week ending May 3. Others included Chicago, with Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt in her final week as the musical’s star pushing the gross to $1,688,129; Every Brilliant Thing, with newly Tony-nominated star Daniel Radcliffe counting down to his May 24 exit ($1,718,476); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, still soaring with big draw Tom Felton and the roster’s top earner at $2,290,728; Ragtime, another new Tony nominee ($1,118,485); and Tony nominee The Rocky Horror Show ($830,253).
Among the spring’s new musicals, The Lost Boys was the top earner at $1,003,881 (with four heavily comped performances and attendance at 85% of the Palace’s capacity).
Other recent arrivals reporting strong or promising numbers were Cats: The Jellicle Ball ($935,627, 94%); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ($942,474, 90%); Death of a Salesman ($1,463,786, 88%); Fallen Angels ($644,611, 97%); Becky Shaw ($462,643, 90%); Giant ($1,149,162 for 7 performances, 96%); and Proof ($911,572, 96%).
In the 70%-80% of capacity range – some Tony noms might help boost numbers for next week’s chart – were Schmigadoon! ($646,129, 75%); Titanique ($730,431, 79%); The Balusters ($295,799, 79%); Chess ($972,106, 75%); and The Fear of 13, at 80% of capacity and showing a troubling drop of $65,569 from the previous week, landing at $717,935. Today’s major-category Tony snub for the Adrien Brody-starring play could smart.
On the other hand, eight nominations, including Best Musical and leading musical actor/actress, could give a much-needed boost to Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), which last week filled just 69% of seats at the Longacre for a gross of $506,589.
No such hope for Beaches, snubbed entirely by Tony nominators this morning. Last week more than half of the seats at the Majestic went unoccupied (48% were filled) for a gross of $520,119.
Some of the non-newcomers showed some significant declines last week, including Death Becomes Here (down $221,878); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (down $225,120) and Wicked (down $209,069). The latter, as always, was still among the week’s big earners with a gross of $1,202,405.
In all, the 40 Broadway productions grossed $39,259,008 for the week ending May 3, a drop of 3% from the previous week and down about 16% from last year at this time when high ticket prices for Good Night, And Good Luck, Othello, Glengarry Glen Ross and The Picture of Dorian Gray bolstered the overall take.
Total attendance last week was 321,960, down 4% from the previous week and 7% year-to-year.
In the 49th week of the 2025-26 season, Broadway had grossed $1,793,556,665, up about 5% over last year at this time, with total attendance of 13,603,156 up 2%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For more box office information visit the League’s website.