The Thanksgiving holiday helped the 34 currently running Broadway shows take in $48,363,979 for the week ending November 30, an increase of over 19% from the previous week. Not only is the figure a sizable increase from the week earlier, but also nearly a 30% increase from the same week last season.
One of the big earners was the current Broadway revival of the Abba hit Mamma Mia!, which earned $2,020,119 at the Winter Garden Theatre, the musical's original Broadway home. That gross marked the global smash hit's best week ever on Broadway and the first time the musical has been part of The $2 Million Club.
Also breaking a record was the Tony-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which has been doing boffo box office ever since original film star Tom Felton joined the company at the Lyric to reprise his screen role of Draco Malfoy. In fact, last week the play—set 19 years after the final Harry Potter novel—took in $3,152,532, breaking the previous record of $2,973,447, which had just been set the week prior.
The only production that out-grossed Harry Potter was the Lin-Manuel Miranda juggernaut Hamilton, which brought in $4,877,800 at the Richard Rodgers—its highest-grossing week ever on Broadway thanks to original cast member Leslie Odom, Jr. reprising the role of Burr (Odom, Jr. played his final performance November 26).
Others in the top five include the long-running Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked ($3,012,089); the Tony-winning Disney hit The Lion King ($2,787,100); and the new Broadway revival of Chess, which is quickly transforming the history of that musical, which played a very brief run during its original Main Stem outing in 1988. Co-starring Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher, and Aaron Tveit, Broadway's other ABBA-scored musical earned $2,066,742.
On Thanksgiving day itself, the long-running revival of Chicago set a new single performance gross, taking in $151,362 at the evening performance at the Ambassador Theatre. This surpassed the musical's previous record of $140,762, on Thanksgiving night 2024.
There were nearly 300,000 theatregoers who attended Broadway shows during the holiday week, with capacity at 90.73%, up 1.76% from the week prior. The 34 shows had an average paid admission of $162.35, also up $22.41 from the previous week.
(For the sticklers, last year's Thanksgiving holiday fell within a different week and took in $46,046,641, over $2 million less than the current season.)
Take a look at the full report here.
The $1 Million Club (shows that earned $1 million or more at the box office):
- Hamilton ($4.88 million)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ($3.15 million)
- Wicked ($3.01 million)
- The Lion King ($2.79 million)
- Chess ($2.07 million)
- Mamma Mia! ($2.02 million)
- Aladdin
- MJ The Musical
- The Outsiders
- Ragtime
- Maybe Happy Ending
- Art (9 performances)
- Death Becomes Her
- Stranger Things: The First Shadow
- Waiting for Godot
- The Great Gatsby
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Oh, Mary!
- Just in Time
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- Hadestown
- The Book of Mormon
- Hell's Kitchen
(23 of 34 currently running productions)
The 90s Club (shows that played to 90% or higher of their seats filled over the entire week):
- Hamilton (101.26%)
- Maybe Happy Ending (100.39%)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (100%)
- Oh, Mary! (100%)
- Ragtime (100%)
- Waiting for Godot (100%)
- Wicked (100%)
- Mamma Mia!
- Hadestown
- The Lion King
- Oedipus
- The Outsiders
- Chess
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- The Book of Mormon
- Aladdin
- Operation Mincemeat
- Buena Vista Social Club
- & Juliet
- Death Becomes Her
- Art
- The Great Gatsby
(22 of 34 currently running productions)
