Whereas most of Broadway noticed field workplace slips final week, new arrival Mamma Mia! acquired off to a fantastic begin: The musical revival offered out its first preview on the Winter Backyard Theatre, grossing $261,796.
The restricted six-month engagement of the ABBA musical marks the return of one in every of Broadway’s longest-running reveals (the ninth-longest, to be actual). The unique 2001 manufacturing performed for a record-breaking 14 years and 5,773 performances on the Winter Backyard after which on the Broadhurst Theatre.
the story: “On the eve of her wedding ceremony, a daughter’s quest to find the identification of her father brings three males from her mom’s previous again to the island they’d final visited many years in the past.” The Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus rating consists of “Dancing Queen,” “The Winner Takes It All,” “Cash, Cash, Cash,” and “Take a Probability on Me.”
Opening night time is Thursday, August 14. The engagement runs by way of February 1, 2026.
Mamma Mia! wasn’t the one sell-out for the week ending August 3: Hamilton, John Proctor is the Villain, Simply In Time, Possibly Completely happy Ending, The Outsiders and Depraved stuffed all their seats. Coming shut, with attendance at 95% or extra of capability, have been & Juliet, Aladdin, Buena Vista Social Membership, Loss of life Turns into Her, Hadestown, Moulin Rouge!, Oh, Mary!, Objective, The E-book of Mormon and The Lion King.
Most reveals – 21 of 28 – noticed not less than some field workplace drops as New York hits the canine days of August. Aladdin was down by $178,270 from the earlier week to a still-impressive $1,432,616. The Lion King slipped $122,811 to a still-huge $2,201,502, coming in third for the week’s largest earners behind Depraved ($2,344,841) and Hamilton ($2,231,399).
Along with Aladdin, final week’s million-dollar membership included Buena Vista Social Membership ($1,432,616), Loss of life Turns into Her ($1,393,417), Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby ($1,205,033), Simply In Time ($1,321,510), Possibly Completely happy Ending ($1,401,674), MJ ($1,292,623), Oh, Mary! ($1,112,432) and The Outsiders ($1,231,912).
Simply In Time, the Bobby Darin bio-musical starring Jonathan Groff, was the road’s priciest choice, with a mean ticket worth of $231.84, adopted by Hamilton at $207.65. Common ticket worth for all 28 reveals was $126.86.
Nonetheless struggling have been Name Me Izzy, the Jean Good solo present, filling about 56% of seats at Studio 54, and Gypsy, at about 67% of capability on the Majestic.
In all, the 28 productions on the boards final week grossed $30,062,727, a drop of about 5% from the earlier week and 4% from final yr presently. Complete attendance was 236,981, down 4% from the earlier week and 1% year-to-year.
Season so far, Broadway, within the tenth week of the 2025-26 season, has grossed $371,261,619, up about 10% over final yr presently, with complete attendance of 2,867,818 up 7%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For extra field workplace data go to the League’s web site.
