Cats: The Jellicle Ball Sells Out 1st Week of Previews, and More From Last Week's Broadway Grosses

Fans are rushing to the Broadhurst to see the drag ball-inspired revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

March 24, 2026 By Logan Culwell-Block

Curiosity made Broadway's latest Cats a bonafide hit last week, with theatregoers descending upon the Broadhurst Theatre to catch the first four previews of the drag ball-inspired reimagining of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It was a total sell-out for the first week of previews for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, with tickets going for an average of $131. Over a partial week of just four previews, the revival brought in $612,084. If the show can keep up that performance in this week's full slate of eight previews, we'll see it handily debut in The $1 Million Club in its first full week on the boards. Meow!

Broadway's newest shows are actually doing pretty great across the board. Becky Shaw and The Fear of 13 both began previews last week as well, and both very nearly sold out. Broadway also welcomed newcomer Giant to The $1 Million Club in its first full week, an esteemed list that also included the still-in-previews Death of a Salesman and Dog Day Afternoon.

And so it's perhaps no great surprise that box-office totals rose by more than 12% from the week before—and that week had the same amount of performances available to theatregoers! Across the 31 currently running shows, Broadway brought in $36.77 million last week, with an average ticket price at a healthy $134.78. Keep in mind there are still nine new productions that haven't yet begun previews, which should only make that situation even better. We are currently beating the same period of time from last year's historic season by more than 7%, so we can likely expect another historic season total come May.

Speaking of ticket prices, it looks like people are very eager to catch Tony winner Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in Just in Time before he gives his final performance at the end of the month. Nearly the entire run has already been a high-grossing sell-out, and thanks to a comparatively small house size at the Circle in the Square, the show has been commanding some of the highest ticket prices on the Main Stem. But last week, they reached a new high with an average ticket price of $328. It's the first time the show broke an average of $300, no doubt thanks in part to its top ticket price of $974.50. It's more than $100 more expensive than the next highest average ticket (Hamilton's $224.15), and led to a total gross of $1.87 million, the fifth-highest of any show. That is a pretty astonishing performance for any show, but, again, with the production housed in one of Broadway's smallest houses, very nearly making The $2 Million Club is downright insane. Never say that Broadway doesn't grow its own highly bankable stars from time to time.

The rest of the top five were filled in by what's become the usual suspects. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, still flying high with a starring stint from Harry Potter film star Tom Felton, again won the day with a total take of $2.64 million, followed by Hamilton, The Lion King, Wicked, and Just in Time.

Take a look at the full report here.

The $1 Million Club (shows that earned $1 million or more at the box office):