Ragtime, Lincoln Heart Theater’s revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens-Terrence McNally musical, started previews final week and stuffed each seat on the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the three performances. Directed by LCT’s creative director Lear deBessonet, the manufacturing on the non-prof grossed $451,554 for the three previews; opening evening is October 16.
Whereas total Broadway enterprise was down a bit – final week included the two-day Rosh Hashanah vacation – the hits stayed sturdy. Ready For Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, had a superb opening week, promoting out the Hudson and grossing $1,618,800, whereas Hamilton, using very excessive with the restricted run return of authentic solid member Leslie Odom, Jr., took in $3,773,354, simply topping the roster.
After Hamilton, the highest earners have been Depraved ($2,003,339); Artwork ($1,648,063); Mamma Mia! ($1,645,712); and Godot. Promote-outs for the week ending September 28 have been Artwork, Hamilton, Simply in Time, Mamma Mia!, Oh, Mary!, Ragtime, Ready for Godot and Depraved.
Punch, James Graham’s play that opened to blended opinions final evening, was at 87% of capability final week on the non-prof Manhattan Theatre Membership’s Samuel Friedman, grossing $274,116.
Exiting the roster was Jeff Ross: Take A Banana For The Trip, the comic’s one-man present that by no means fairly discovered its viewers. In its last week on the Nederlander, attendance was at about 50% of capability, with a gross of $267,034.
Another notable numbers:
Chicago attendance was at about 56% of capability on the Ambassador, for a gross of $502,018;
Buena Vista Social Membership nonetheless going sturdy on the Schoenfeld – 98% capability, $1,055,187 gross;
Possibly Glad Ending took in $1,169,909, 97%;
In all, the 28 Broadway reveals grossed $30,783,164, a dip of about 4% from the earlier week however up 22% from final season right now. Attendance was 233,580, down 6% from the earlier week however up 3% 12 months to 12 months.
Season so far, Broadway, within the 18th week of the 2025-26 season, has grossed $609,572,885, up about 9% over final 12 months right now, with complete attendance of 4,780,836 up 6%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For extra field workplace info go to the League’s web site.
