Broadway's Week of Snow: 10 Shows Cancel Performances
The week ending 1/25/2026 saw a significant impact from the snowstorm, with 10 Broadway shows canceling a total of 13 performances on Sunday, January 25th. Here's a breakdown of the affected shows and their performance statistics:
Cancelled Performances:
- JULIET (evening)
- ALADDIN (matinee and evening)
- ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION (evening)
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (evening)
- MAMMA MIA! (evening)
- MJ (matinee)
- RAGTIME (matinee)
- STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (evening)
- THE BOOK OF MORMON (matinee and evening)
- THE LION KING (matinee and evening)
Broadway Week and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:
- NYC Broadway Week runs from January 20th to February 12th.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend was part of Week 34, and last season, it fell within Week 35.
Attendance and Grosses:
- ALL OUT: COMEDY ABOUT AMBITION saw a slight increase in attendance (0.4%).
- Several shows experienced significant decreases in attendance, with some as low as -100%:
- HAMILTON (-101%)
- HADESTOWN (-100.4%)
- WICKED (-100%)
- MAMMA MIA! (-100%)
- RAGTIME (-99.8%)
- OH, MARY! (-99.4%)
- STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW (-99%)
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-98.4%)
- OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL (-97.3%)
- MAYBE HAPPY ENDING (-96.6%)
- MARJORIE PRIME (-96.1%)
- THE OUTSIDERS (-95.8%)
- THE LION KING (-95.1%)
- MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-94.8%)
- MJ (-93.6%)
- JUST IN TIME (-92.4%)
- DEATH BECOMES HER (-92.3%)
- THE BOOK OF MORMON (-89.3%)
- OEDIPUS (-88.8%)
- LIBERATION (-87.3%)
- TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (-85.3%)
- THE GREAT GATSBY (-83%)
- HELL'S KITCHEN (-82.4%)
- SIX: THE MUSICAL (-79.1%)
- CHICAGO (-75.5%)
- BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (-7.5%)
- & JULIET (-4.6%)
- BUG (-3.8%)
- ALADDIN (-2.8%)
- CHESS (-2.2%)
Top and Bottom Grossing Shows:
- Top 5 by This Week's Gross:
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: $2,124,053
- HAMILTON: $1,948,375
- WICKED: $1,792,224
- MAMMA MIA!: $1,429,269
- CHESS: $1,409,760
- Bottom 5 by This Week's Gross:
- MARJORIE PRIME: $339,431
- SIX: THE MUSICAL: $519,118
- LIBERATION: $539,557
- BUG: $542,518
- & JULIET: $560,038
Other Key Statistics:
- Total tickets sold: 250,682
- Total gross: $29,950,531
- Average ticket price: $119.48
- Overall capacity utilization: 492.14%
- Attendance decrease: 8.73% compared to the previous week.
- Overall grosses decrease: 13.68% compared to the previous week.
- Average ticket price decrease: $6.84 compared to the previous week.
Note: BroadwayWorld provides this data for informational purposes only, and accuracy is not guaranteed. Source: The Broadway League.
