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‘Smash’, ‘Floyd Collins’ & ‘The Final 5 Years’ Exit Broadway On Excessive Notes


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A number of Broadway reveals – Smash, Floyd Collins and The Final 5 Years – went out on excessive notes final week, with last-chancers boosting field workplace for all three productions.

Smash, the musical primarily based on the TV sequence, noticed essentially the most important bounce, with grosses climbing $401,499 to $977,805 for the week ending June 22 (the earlier week was a seven-performance week). Nonetheless, the Imperial Theatre was solely 84% crammed.

Floyd Collins, the Tina Landau musical at Lincoln Middle’s Vivian Beaumont, noticed a big enhance of $258,106 to $754,317, with a powerful 91% of seats crammed. The Final 5 Years, starring Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas, noticed a $123,154 achieve to $604,088, with attendance at 86% of capability on the Hudson.

The uptick in Broadway field workplace wasn’t restricted to the exiting reveals, although, with many of the 38 productions reporting positive aspects over the earlier week. Cabaret At The Equipment Kat Membership, which has posted an October 19 time limit, was up $182,267 to $944,982.

Useless Outlaw, closing June 29, was up $25,510 to $475,175 and Actual Girls Have Curves, additionally closing June 29, was up $143,292 to $508,544, however the attendance ranges for each reveals remained stubbornly under optimum ranges. Identical for Stephen Sondheim’s Outdated Pals (identical time limit), which took in simply $317,363 with 72% of the Friedman’s seats occupied.

Two different about-to-close reveals, Glengarry Glen Ross (June 28) and The Image of Dorian Grey (June 29) did their regular sell-out enterprise, with the previous taking in $2,234,152 and the latter $1,655,861 for seven performances.

Different sell-outs for the week had been included Hamilton, John Proctor Is The Villain, Simply In Time, Perhaps Blissful Ending, Oh, Mary! (Cole Escola’s last week within the title position), The Outsiders and Depraved. Coming very near promoting out, with not less than 97% of seats occupied, had been & Juliet, Aladdin, Buena Vista Social Membership, Dying Turns into Her, Hadestown, Operation Mincemeat, Function, Sundown Blvd., The E book of Mormon and, at 99.8%, The Lion King.

Along with Glengarry Glen Ross, three productions topped the $2 million mark: Prime earner Depraved ($2,484,800), Hamilton ($2,169,797) and The Lion King ($2,141,944).

Name Me Izzy starring Jean Good in a critically lauded solo efficiency, was nonetheless searching for its viewers, with attendance at solely 62% of capability at Studio 54, with a take of $604,213.

In all, the 38 Broadway reveals on the boards grossed $43,169,396, a bounce of 10% over the earlier week and 17% over final 12 months at the moment. Attendance was 328,951, up 5% over the earlier week and 12% over final season.

Season thus far, Broadway, within the 4th week of the 2025-26 season, has grossed $173,112,264, up about 22% over final 12 months at the moment, with whole attendance of 1,305,709 up 13%.

All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For full field workplace go to the League’s web site.