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Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 08/23/2026 in BroadwayWorld’s grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show’s historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is in previews at the Wilson and opens on 8/25. It had 5 heavily comped press performances for the week of 8/16.
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This week (week ending 08/23/2026), 26 shows played on Broadway, with 219,152 tickets sold and a total gross of $24,840,816. The average ticket price was $113.35. This represents 1 fewer show than last week. Overall capacity utilization was 86.00%, with 219,152 of 254,816 available seats filled.
Attendance decreased by 3.13% compared to last week. Compared to the same week last year (Week 34, 2025), attendance decreased by 8.61%.
Overall grosses fell 8.01% compared to last week. Year-over-year, grosses decreased by 13.25% ($24,840,816 vs. $28,634,041).
The average ticket price of $113.35 was $6.01 lower than last week and $6.05 lower than the same week last year ($119.40).
Year-over-Year: Top 5 Gross Increases
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: $2,196,205 vs. $990,128 (+121.8% change)
- MJ: $1,729,644 vs. $1,239,692 (+39.5% change)
- HADESTOWN: $830,916 vs. $681,492 (+21.9% change)
- CHICAGO: $650,965 vs. $546,151 (+19.2% change)
- THE LION KING: $1,821,416 vs. $1,820,876 (+0.0% change)
Overall Capacity Utilization
This week: 86.0%. Same week last year: 89.5%. Change: Down 3.5 percentage points
Top 5 by This Week Gross
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: $2,196,205
- HAMILTON: $1,972,219
- THE LION KING: $1,821,416
- MJ: $1,729,644
- THE LOST BOYS: $1,154,262
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross
- TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK): $455,957
- SIX: THE MUSICAL: $463,638
- OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL: $591,124
- & JULIET: $622,559
- CHICAGO: $650,965
Top 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: $1,111,547
- PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: $306,994
- THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: $120,328
- TITANÍQUE: $115,374
- MJ: $43,161
Bottom 5 by This Week Gross vs. Last Week Gross
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: $-855,767
- HAMILTON: $-150,917
- ALADDIN: $-147,066
- WICKED: $-100,055
- & JULIET: $-90,308
Top 5 by Average Ticket Price
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: $210.38
- HAMILTON: $184.41
- MJ: $160.49
- THE LION KING: $140.18
- OH, MARY!: $140.00
Bottom 5 by Average Ticket Price
- PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: $76.80
- ALADDIN: $79.70
- STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW: $80.80
- WICKED: $85.04
- TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK): $87.70
Top 5 by % of Total Seats Filled
- HAMILTON: 101%
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: 100.4%
- PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: 100%
- JUST IN TIME: 99.5%
- HADESTOWN: 99.2%
Bottom 5 % of Total Seats Filled
- SIX: THE MUSICAL: 59.9%
- TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK): 62.1%
- STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW: 65.3%
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: 71.2%
- CHICAGO: 74.5%
Top 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
- PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: 4748
- TITANÍQUE: 841
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL: 643
- THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: 598
- THE BOOK OF MORMON: 400
Bottom 5 by Total Attendance This Week vs. Last Week
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: -3096
- & JULIET: -620
- STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW: -470
- ALADDIN: -449
- THE OUTSIDERS: -420
That’s all for this week… Note: All data presented for informational purposes only. BroadwayWorld makes no guarantee as to the accuracy of the data, or the matter in which it’s presented. Source: The Broadway League.
