Broadway grosses dropped 6 percent last week as eight productions canceled Sunday evening performances due to the blizzard in New York City.
Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm, as the musical fell $408,223 from the prior week. It was still one of the highest grossing shows of the week with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as the top grossing show ($2.6 million), followed by The Lion King ($1.9 million), then Wicked ($1.6 million) and Just In Time ($1.5 million).
& Juliet (down $195,292 from the prior week), All Out: Comedy About Ambition (down $77,149), Chicago (down $169,110) and Oh, Mary! (down $216,345) also lost their Sunday evening performances.
Though it was not impacted by the snowstorm, Chess had the largest drop of the week, falling $802,675, as lead Lea Michele was out of the show from Wednesday through Sunday due to a scheduled absence. Attendance also fell to 80 percent from 95 percent and the average ticket price dropped to $85 from $144.
Operation Mincemeat was meant to have a nine-performance week, with Sunday evening marking the final performance of original cast members David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts. However, the cast members performed the matinee and then held a live-streamed concert in the evening, in lieu of the final performance. The show still saw a $150,000 boost from the prior week, bringing in $1.1 million as the average ticket price jumped up $23 to $175.
Hell’s Kitchen played its final performance Sunday, after opening on Broadway in April 2024. The musical brought in $1.4 million, and saw its grosses jump up about $200,000 from the prior week.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow also had to cancel Sunday night’s performance due to the storm, but still brought in close to $1.6 million across seven performances, above its totals at the beginning of February. The production was dark the prior week to allow for filming.
Broadway also canceled Monday performances, impacting six productions that were scheduled to go on that night. Those cancellations will be reflected in the upcoming grosses.