Other Desert Cities Grosses $2,347,158 at the Hudson in the Week Ending November 1
Jon Robin Baitz's play, in its first Broadway revival, played to 100 percent of capacity at the 970-seat Hudson and took the week's top gross while Broadway's 33 shows fell to $29,572,284. Its average ticket, $301.23, was the highest on the street.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ed Harris in Other Desert Cities grossed $2,347,158 at the Hudson Theatre in the week ending Sunday, November 1, 2026 — the highest gross on Broadway, in a week when the street's total fell 13 percent.
Twenty-six of the 33 shows on Broadway lost ground against the week before. The revival of Jon Robin Baitz's play gained $84,716.
The production played eight performances to 7,792 people — four more a night than the Hudson's 970 seats, which is standing room in the League's arithmetic, and the League records the week at 100 percent of capacity, the share of a house's available seats that were filled. The average ticket cost $301.23. Broadway's average ticket cost $117.49.
The week belongs to a debut. Louis-Dreyfus plays Polly Wyeth — her first Broadway credit, as an eleven-time Emmy winner — opposite Harris as Lyman Wyeth, with Allison Janney as Silda Grauman, Lily Rabe as Brooke Wyeth and Joe Keery, also making his Broadway debut, as Trip Wyeth. John Benjamin Hickey directs the first Broadway revival of the play, in a limited engagement through January 17, 2027.
Hamilton stayed full at the Richard Rodgers and grossed less
Hamilton took $2,317,475, down $207,476 from the week before, with 10,629 attendees recorded at 100 percent of capacity. The room stayed full; the price mix moved, and the average ticket eased from $235.58 to $218.03.
A Few Good Men opened on Thursday, October 29, at the Vivian Beaumont and played its three previews and five performances to 8,824 people at 100 percent of capacity, grossing $1,277,792. The gross runs $93,655 under the week before on the trade's standard opening-week arithmetic: press and opening-night guest seats count in the attendance and not in the gross. At the Winter Garden, Much Ado About Nothing played a single preview, on Saturday, October 31, to 1,503 people at 100 percent of capacity and grossed $358,262, an average ticket of $238.36 — Hayley Atwell making her Broadway debut as Beatrice, after twenty years on London stages, opposite Tom Hiddleston's Benedick, in Jamie Lloyd's production, ahead of a November 19 opening.
Six productions rose in all. After Other Desert Cities, the largest gain belonged to 860, up $141,556 at the Imperial to $1,353,611 across seven performances at 99 percent of capacity; The Rocky Horror Show gained $79,088 at Studio 54 and Paranormal Activity $21,583 at the August Wilson.
The Hudson opened in 1903, left Broadway in 1968 and came back in 2017
The Hudson stands at 141 West 44th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. It opened on October 3, 1903, built for the producer Henry B. Harris, who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912; his widow, Renee Harris, ran the house until the Depression. The exterior and the Beaux-Arts interior — three lobbies that ran wider than any in New York when the house opened, a ticket lobby ceiling of 264 plaster coffers — are designated city landmarks.
CBS took the house as a radio studio from 1934 to 1937, and NBC as a television studio from 1949 to 1960; Steve Allen and Jack Paar both hosted The Tonight Show from its stage. Broadway used it intermittently into the 1960s, and then the building passed through lives as an adult film theatre, a movie house and the Savoy nightclub before the Millennium Broadway hotel was built around it in the late 1980s and the theatre became the hotel's event space. From 1968 to 2017 — 49 years — the Hudson's stage belonged to other trades.
The house reopened on February 8, 2017, with Sunday in the Park with George, as Broadway's 41st theatre and, in the same breath, its oldest; ATG Entertainment operates it now. Hickey has directed in the room before — his Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, played the Hudson in 2022.
The week on the calendar held Halloween on its Saturday, the city marathon on its Sunday and the end of daylight saving time, and the trade has filed the drop under all three. The calendar was published well in advance.
Broadway's 33 shows grossed $29,572,284 in the week ending November 1
The League's season totals run behind last year: $726,010,709 grossed to date, down 8.0 percent, on attendance of 5,929,169, down 3.2 percent. In a week when the street fell 13 percent, the top of its chart was held by a straight play in a 970-seat room, at an average ticket of $301.23. The house opened in 1903.
Sources
- The Broadway League, "Grosses — Broadway in NYC," the published table for the week ending 11/1/2026 (Week 23 of the 2026–27 season) — opened in full: weekly totals (33 shows, $29,572,284, 251,700 attendance; week ending 10/25/2026: $33,966,016, 262,928; same week last season: $33,880,998, 277,506; season to date $726,010,709 and 5,929,169, at −8.0% and −3.2%) and every by-show row used in the piece (gross, previous-week gross, attendance, performances, previews, % capacity, theatre). https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/?sw=2026-11-01&ew=2026-11-01
- IBDB, "Broadway Show Season Grosses & Attendance" — the League-supplied statistics record, opened: the week ending Nov 1, 2026 at $29,572,284 and 251,700, 88% of capacity street-wide. https://www.ibdb.com/statistics
- BroadwayWorld, "Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/1/26 — OTHER DESERT CITIES Tops the Grosses" (November 3, 2026) — the full League table as published by the trade: Other Desert Cities top at $2,347,158, the street at $29,572,284 across 33 shows with 251,700 tickets and an average ticket of $117.49, overall grosses down 12.94% on the week and 12.72% year over year; A Few Good Men opened at the Beaumont on 10/29. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Grosses-Week-Ending-11126-20261103
- The week's trade grosses report, as republished (europesays.com, Ireland edition, November 3, 2026) — Other Desert Cities and Hamilton the only two shows over $2 million; 26 of 33 shows down; A Few Good Men's $93,655 dip attributed to press and opening-night comps; Hamilton standing room only at $2,317,475, down about $207,476; Much Ado About Nothing's single preview at $358,262 with a November 19 opening; only two other productions besides Other Desert Cities over a $200 average ticket (Much Ado $238.36, Hamilton $218.03); season-to-date $726,010,709 in the season's 23rd week. https://www.europesays.com/ie/765067/
- Playbill, "Photos: Ina Garten, Matt Rogers, Busy Philpps, More Attend a Starry Opening Night at Broadway's Other Desert Cities" (October 19, 2026) — opening night October 18 at the Hudson Theatre; "11-time Emmy winner Louis-Dreyfus makes her Broadway debut as Polly Wyeth, opposite Ed Harris as Lyman Wyeth, Oscar winner Allison Janney as Silda Grauman, Joe Keery (Stranger Things) as Trip Wyeth, and Lily Rabe as Brooke Wyeth"; John Benjamin Hickey at the helm; the limited engagement through January 17, 2027; the production in the $2 million club in its first full week of previews. https://playbill.com/article/photos-ina-garten-matt-rogers-busy-philipps-more-attend-a-starry-opening-night-at-broadways-other-desert-cities
- People, "Lily Rabe Calls Her Broadway Return in 'Other Desert Cities' a 'Dream'" (October 2026) — the revival began previews at the Hudson Theatre on September 29 and opened October 18; limited engagement through January 17, 2027; the company as billed. https://people.com/lily-rabe-calls-her-broadway-return-in-other-desert-cities-a-dream-after-years-of-wanting-to-play-the-role-exclusive-12190698
- Aussie Theatre, "Other Desert Cities Opens on Broadway With Julia Louis-Dreyfus" (October 22, 2026) — the Hudson hosted the opening on 18 October 2026; the role is Louis-Dreyfus's Broadway debut; Joe Keery, who plays Trip Wyeth, is also new to Broadway; the first Broadway revival of the play; 16-week limited engagement through 17 January 2027. https://www.aussietheatre.com.au/international/other-desert-cities-broadway-opening-julia-louis-dreyfus/
- NY Stage Review, "Other Desert Cities: Star Power in Action" (October 19, 2026) — Louis-Dreyfus in her Broadway debut; Hickey "scored a similar commercial triumph with his staging of Plaza Suite at the same theater"; opened October 18, 2026, at the Hudson Theatre, through January 17, 2027. https://nystagereview.com/2026/10/19/other-desert-cities-star-power-in-action/
- BroadwayWorld, "Meet the Cast of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Now Playing on Broadway" (October 31, 2026) — the strictly limited 10-week engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre, previews beginning Saturday, October 31, opening night Thursday, November 19; Hiddleston as Benedick and "Hayley Atwell in her Broadway debut as 'Beatrice'"; Atwell's London record with the Jamie Lloyd Company at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Meet-the-Cast-of-MUCH-ADO-ABOUT-NOTHING-Now-Playing-on-Broadway-20261031
- British Theatre, "Much Ado About Nothing heads to Broadway with Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell" — Atwell's Broadway debut, in her words: "After 20 years on the stages of London's West End, it is a huge honour for me to be invited to make my Broadway debut playing Beatrice in this electric production"; previews from Saturday 31 October 2026 at the Winter Garden, opening Thursday 19 November. https://www.britishtheatre.com/posts/much-ado-about-nothing-broadway-previews-hiddleston-atwell-2026
- "Hudson Theatre," the house's documented record (en.wikipedia.org) — opened in full: 139–141 West 44th Street; one of the oldest surviving Broadway venues, built 1902–1903 and opened October 3, 1903; 970 seats across three levels; exterior by J. B. McElfatrick & Son, interior completed by Israels & Harder, Beaux-Arts throughout; the three lobby spaces collectively the widest in New York when the house opened; the ticket lobby's coved ceiling of 264 coffers; Henry B. Harris, the house's first operator, died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and his widow Renee Harris operated the Hudson until the Great Depression; CBS radio studio 1934–1937, NBC television studio 1949–1960, with Steve Allen and Jack Paar both hosting The Tonight Show at the Hudson; intermittent Broadway use into the 1960s (years active run to 1968), then an adult film theater, a movie theater and the Savoy nightclub; the Millennium Times Square hotel built around it in the late 1980s and the theatre converted to the hotel's event space; facade and interior designated New York City landmarks November 17, 1987; reopened February 8, 2017 with Sunday in the Park with George, becoming the 41st Broadway theater and both its newest and oldest; operated by ATG Entertainment; current production listed as Other Desert Cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Theatre
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