Well, the 2024-2025 Broadway season is officially over, and as we've known it would be for some time, it was a big success. In fact, it was the highest-grossing season in recorded Broadway history鈥攁nd that "recorded" is merely a formality. Nothing pre-dating the data we have could have out-performed this season. With a total gross of $1.89 billion and attendance numbering 14.7 million, the 2024-2025 season beat even the pre-pandemic record holder of the 2018-2019 season, which earned just $1.83 billion. It's been a struggle getting everything back after the setback of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we're back, baby.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this past season was also the most expensive on record, with those millions of theatregoers paying an average of $129.12. That's an increase from 2022-2023's average of $128.43, though, of course, that season saw dramatically less total people (12.3 million). But this last season was also the highest attended since 2018-2019 (which welcomed 14.8 million theatregoers), and 91.19% of seats were filled, the highest percentage in years. Though we often decry rising ticket prices and its impact on Broadway's accessibility, it appears that at least for now, there are plenty of people willing to pay top dollar for what Broadway has to offer. And those expensive tickets have become the vehicle to Broadway's triumphant comeback, for better or worse.
The other asterisk with this latest season data is that because of an odd calendar anomaly, every seventh season on Broadway gets an extra week to make up for six seasons of 364-day years. That extra week helped send this last season over the top, beating the 2023-2024 season by 23%. But if you remove that 53rd week from the totals, we still beat last season by 19.88%. In other words, this season was a big success, no asterisks.
It also goes without saying that inventory has been a huge part of Broadway's comeback. The 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons each barely broke 1,400 playing weeks. The 2024-2025 season boasted 1,712 playing weeks, the highest since (you guessed it) 2018-2019, which had 1,737 cumulative playing weeks. There were 43 new productions last season, up from just 39 and 40 the two previous seasons, showing that while we did have more new shows last season, the biggest change was that they ran longer on the whole.
We also, of course, got data for grosses from last week, in which the winners of the season continued their winning. Good Night, and Good Luck beat its own record for the highest-grossing non-musical play with a staggering $4.24 million over eight performances, thanks to its average ticket price of $337.59. Usual suspects Othello, Glengarry Glen Ross, Wicked, and The Lion King filled out the rest of the top five, each meeting or exceeding The $2 Million Club.
Grosses were up more than 6% last week compared to the week prior, bringing in a cumulative $47.28 million in the final week of the season, which represented 92.71% of seats filled across the 40 currently running shows. Average ticket prices also saw a steep increase, going from $131.81 to $138.20.
Take a look at the full report here. (You can find season-end totals at .)
The $1 Million Club (shows that earned $1 million or more at the box office):
- Good Night and Good Luck ($4.24 million)
- Othello ($3.33 million)
- Glengarry Glen Ross ($2.75 million)
- Wicked ($2.35 million)
- The Lion King ($2.06 million)
- Hamilton
- Death Becomes Her
- Aladdin
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- The Outsiders
- MJ The Musical
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Just in Time
- Oh, Mary!
- Gypsy
- The Great Gatsby
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Maybe Happy Ending
- Sunset Boulevard
- Stranger Things: The First Shadow
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
(21 of 40 currently running productions)
The 90s Club (shows that played to 90% or higher of their seats filled over the entire week):
- Just in Time (103.42%)
- John Proctor is the Villain (102.32%)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (102.11%)
- Maybe Happy Ending (101.77%)
- The Outsiders (101.45%)
- Buena Vista Social Club (101.36%)
- Hamilton (101.33%)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (101.16%)
- Wicked (100%)
- Othello (100%)
- Operation Mincemeat (100%)
- Oh, Mary! (100%)
- Purpose
- Death Becomes Her
- The Lion King
- & Juliet
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- Hadestown
- Pirates! The Penzance Musical
- The Book of Mormon
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Aladdin
- The Great Gatsby
- Call Me Izzy
- Sunset Boulevard
- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
(26 of 40 currently running productions)
