{"id":829755,"date":"2026-07-28T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829755\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:17:10","slug":"broadway-ragtime-cats-the-jellicle-ball-hit-highest-grosses-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829755\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway: ‘Ragtime,’ ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Hit Highest Grosses Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRagtime broke its own house record at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, bringing in $1.625 million last week, marking the highest gross for Lincoln Center Theater. The best musical revival had an average ticket price of $192.95, the second highest on Broadway<\/a> last week, behind Hamilton, and played to 100 percent capacity.\u00a0The musical is set to end its limited run Aug. 16. <\/p>\n

\n\tCats: The Jellicle Ball continues to have a pre-closing resurgence, with the show also hitting its highest gross yet, with close to $1.2 million. The average ticket price jumped up to $126.55 week and capacity increasing to more than 100 percent, ahead of the musical\u2019s Aug. 8 closing<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJoe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone, starring Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, also reached the highest gross of its run last week, bringing in close to $1.2 million for its final performances. The show, which played its final performance July 26, played to 99 percent capacity and the average ticket price increased to $142.22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a big week for most shows, as industry grosses jumped 12.5 percent from the prior week and attendance increased 7 percent amid the summer crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lion King was the highest grossing show of the week, with $2.4 million brought in across nine performances, followed by Hamilton with $2.3 million, Death of a Salesman with $2.2 million (across seven performances), MJ with $1.9 million and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with $1.89 million.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ragtime broke its own house record at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, bringing in $1.625 million last week, marking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,133412,366312,447,134],"class_list":["post-829755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broadway","tag-broadway-grosses","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}