Cats: The Jellicle Ball just had its best week on Broadway — and it's about to close.

For the week ending August 2, 2026, the production grossed $1,405,709 at the Broadhurst Theatre, playing to standing room only. That's an increase of $216,278 over the previous week and a new high-water mark for the show, which opened at the Broadhurst on April 7, 2026 (Broadway.com). The Broadway League's weekly grosses had previously listed the show at $1,189,431 for the week ending July 26, 2026, at 101% of capacity (Broadway League).

The final performance is set for Saturday, August 8, as Deadline reported on August 4 (Deadline). Andrew Lloyd Webber announced the closing in July 2026, citing high production costs and the current financial climate. The show's capitalization — the money raised to get the doors open — and weekly running costs are factors that can end a run even when the gross is climbing. The closing comes five months before a previously announced extension to January 17, 2027.

For the show's investors, that means the run won't reach the length they'd planned for. A closing notice, the formal announcement that a show will end on a specific date, often drives a last-week surge as audiences rush to see a production before it's gone. The standing-room-only figure suggests that's exactly what happened here.

Playbill's production page listed the show's cumulative gross at $17,320,060.03, with an average ticket price of $109.31 and an average capacity of 93.47% across its run (Playbill).

Across the rest of the street, the week's top earner was Hamilton at $2,363,268. Ragtime grossed $1,887,495 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, breaking its own house record for the third time. Every Brilliant Thing, starring Tracee Ellis Ross, grossed $657,451 at 99% of capacity and closed Sunday, August 9 — the day after Cats plays its final performance.

Broadway's 29 running productions grossed a combined $33,889,856 for the week, down about 3% from the previous week but up 13% from the same week a year earlier. Total attendance was 263,897, off 3% week-to-week and up 11% year-to-year. Ten weeks into the 2026-27 season, Broadway has grossed $351,725,557 with total attendance of 2,863,791 (Deadline).

Two shows closing in the same August week, both near or at capacity, tells the story of Broadway in summer: the audience is there, but the weekly running costs have to clear the bar every single week. For Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the audience showed up. The expenses won.