Broadway Grosses $29.6 Million in Week Ending November 1, Four Shows Sell Out

Broadway's 33 shows took in $29,572,284 in the week ending November 1, Deadline reported. Four of those shows sold out.

That total is the gross, meaning all the money paid for tickets before any costs are taken out. The same week, 251,700 people attended. The average paid admission across all 33 shows was $117.49, which is the average price a ticket-holder actually paid after discounts and promotions.

A sold-out show has no seats left for the performances it played that week. The four were A Few Good Men, Hamilton, Much Ado About Nothing and Other Desert Cities.

Hamilton grossed $2,317,475 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Other Desert Cities grossed $2,347,158, and its average paid admission was $301.23. A Few Good Men grossed $1,277,792 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Much Ado About Nothing stars Tom Hiddleston as Benedick and Hayley Atwell as Beatrice. Jamie Lloyd directs. The production took in $358,262 for a single preview performance at the Winter Garden Theatre. A preview is a performance held before the official opening, which is set for November 19. Deadline has listed the show's closing date as January 10, 2027. A limited run has a set end date from the start, which is how this production is being sold.

For a first-time buyer, the sellout is the easiest number to read. Every seat was taken. The gross is the more useful measure of the money coming in, and the average paid admission shows how much the audience paid per seat. Those two figures can point in different directions, which is why both matter.

Across the season, Broadway has grossed $726,010,709 so far. That is the season-to-date total, the running sum since the 2026-27 season began, through its 23rd week.

Each week's gross is compared with the same show's running costs, the amount it spends each week to keep the doors open, including salaries, the theater rent and the stage crew. A show that brings in more than it spends in a week is covering its costs. A show that has paid back what it cost to open is said to recoup, meaning the investors have gotten their original money back. Recoupment is the milestone every new musical or play works toward, and most do not reach it.

The shows that sold out this week will get no sympathy from the box office for the weeks ahead. Each week starts from zero. The next report will show what the same shows sold in the seven days after November 1.