Broadway's 10 Priciest Tickets Last Week

Bea here. Celia has the League's new table, a pencil and strong opinions about what a seat's worth, so I'll be brief: this is the ten priciest tickets on Broadway last week, counted down, and every price here's one honest division you can check yourself. Celia, the aisle is yours.

How this list is ranked — the criteria, in plain words: Ranked by average ticket for the Broadway League's week ending November 1, 2026 — the latest week the League has posted. The average is this desk's division: the week's gross divided by the week's attendance, both as the League publishes them. The League doesn't print the average; we did the long division, show by show, from the table we opened. Full-week shows only: a production had to play a full week of performances or previews to qualify. That rule removes one curiosity — Much Ado About Nothing played a single preview in this table, and its $238.36 average (one performance, 1,503 people) is a first-night snapshot, not a week's price, so it's excluded and we're saying so here rather than ranking it second. This list builds on our full 33-show ranking of the same week; here, it's a buyer's guide, not a lecture.

The countdown

10. Paranormal Activity — $117.46 (August Wilson Theatre; $1,094,504 ÷ 9,318 people; 99% of seats filled) The cheapest ticket in this top ten is $117.46, and the show is a play — no orchestra, no dance break, a stage built to frighten. It played to 99% of capacity at the August Wilson: 9,318 people in one week, choosing to be scared together in the dark. Horror has always known what theatre keeps relearning — a gasp lands harder with witnesses.

9. The Rocky Horror Show — $126.87 (Studio 54; $970,053 ÷ 7,646 people; 97% of seats filled) Studio 54 was a nightclub before it was a theatre, and this is the show that uses that fact. The Rocky Horror Show played to 97% of capacity at $126.87 a head. The audience doesn't watch this one so much as complete it, which makes it the bargain on this list.

8. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — $127.34 (Lyric Theatre; $1,629,103 ÷ 12,793 people; 99% of seats filled) The biggest crowd on this list — 12,793 people in one week — at a price that sits eighth. The Lyric is enormous, and the scale is the trick: spectacle at $127.34 a head, 99% of capacity. The casting note for this house: Tom Felton's run as Draco is the draw of the season, and the company around him keeps rotating in fresh blood.

7. The Lion King — $129.53 (Minskoff Theatre; $1,571,842 ÷ 12,135 people; 89% of seats filled) The family baseline of Broadway, nearly three decades in, still seating 12,135 people in a single week at $129.53. Its 89% is the lowest capacity figure in this top ten — which makes it one of the easier top-ten tickets to actually get.

6. A Few Good Men — $144.81 (Vivian Beaumont Theater; $1,277,792 ÷ 8,824 people; 100% of seats filled) Sold out, every seat, for a straight play with no songs to hide behind: 100% of capacity at the Vivian Beaumont, $144.81 a head. The run is short — it closes January 10, 2027 — and the sellout says the city knows it.

5. MJ — $149.32 (Neil Simon Theatre; $1,616,111 ÷ 10,823 people; 98% of seats filled) 10,823 people paid an average of $149.32 at the Neil Simon to watch Michael Jackson's catalogue staged like a thriller. The seat buys precision: choreography executed nightly at a level most concerts never reach. At 98% full after years in the same house, MJ isn't a fad. It's a standing appointment.

4. 860 — $152.59 (Imperial Theatre; $1,353,611 ÷ 8,871 people; 99% of seats filled) Billy Crystal's solo play at the Imperial played seven performances instead of the usual eight — every one of them at 99% of capacity, $152.59 a head. The calendar is part of the price: the run closes February 14, 2027. Limited man, limited weeks, unlimited demand.

3. Oh, Mary! — $184.78 (Lyceum Theatre; $1,309,171 ÷ 7,085 people; 99% of seats filled) A comedy in the Lyceum, one of Broadway's smallest houses, holds the third-priciest ticket on Broadway — ahead of every big musical except Hamilton. 7,085 people, 99% of capacity, $184.78 a head: the city has decided that laughing this hard is a luxury good.

2. Hamilton — $218.03 (Richard Rodgers Theatre; $2,317,475 ÷ 10,629 people; 100% of seats filled) A decade in, it's sold out at 100%, and last week its $2,317,475 was more money than any musical in the city took. One note on the average, from the desk: we divide 2,317,475 by 10,629 and get $218.03 — a cent under the figure some coverage prints. The cent doesn't change the rank or the sellout. It changes whether we print arithmetic we've actually done, so we printed ours.

1. Other Desert Cities — $301.23 (Hudson Theatre; $2,347,158 ÷ 7,792 people; 100% of seats filled) The priciest ticket on Broadway is a straight play in one of its smallest houses, and it out-grossed every musical in New York last week: $2,347,158 from 7,792 seats at the Hudson, every one of them sold. The cast is the reason, and it's on the page: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris and Allison Janney, in a family drama, close enough to touch. It closes January 17, 2027. After that, this exact cast in this exact room doesn't exist at any price.

Bea, closing. Notice the shape of the list: the top isn't the biggest shows — it's the fullest rooms and the shortest runs. The value sits at No. 10 through No. 7, where the crowds are huge and the averages are half the top. Every price here comes from the same table the League published, divided the same way. That's the whole trick of this page.