The Tony Award-winning musicals Ragtime and Schmigadoon! each received a big bump at the Broadway box office last week after winning the top honors in the category at the June 7 ceremony.
The productions each won four Tony Awards. Ragtime’s four Tonys came for Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance for a Leading Actress and Actor in a Musical for Caissie Levy and Joshua Henry, as well as Best Sound Design of a Musical.
Schmigadoon! — the stage adaptation of the Apple TV series that was canceled after two seasons — won Tonys for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.
The wins for Ragtime and Schmigadoon! came with some landmark moments.
Ragtime’s Lamar Richardson at age 33 became the youngest Black producer to win a Tony in one of the big four categories (Best Musical, Best Revival of a Musical, Best Play and Best Revival of a Play). Prior to Richardson, The Wiz producer Ken Harper at age 36 was the youngest Black producer to win one of the big four Tonys as a lead producer.
Meanwhile, Saturday Night Live’s legendary producer, Lorne Michaels, won the Best Musical Tony as one of the producers of Schmigadoon!
The Tony successes of both Ragtime and Schmigadoon! definitely paid off in the week after the June 7 ceremony. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ragtime, which is playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, earned $1.434 million in ticket sales for the week ending June 14, a bump of $130,000 from the week before the Tonys.
Meanwhile, Schmigadoon! earned $1.135 million for the week at the Nederlander Theatre, which marked a $180,000 increase from the week prior.
The 2026 Tony Awards ceremony staged at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Liberation won for Best Play at the 2026 Tonys, while Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman took home the Tony for Best Revival of a Play.
‘The Book Of Mormon’ Had The Biggest Spike In Business Following The Tonys
One of the many highlights at the 2026 Tony Awards was the reunion of the core cast of the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner The Book of Mormon. Not only did the cast reunite for a 15th anniversary performance of “Man Up,” but the number was introduced by the show’s co-creators Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez.
According to THR, The Book of Mormon’s post-Tony Awards business spiked to $2.24 million for its eight performances at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre the week ending June 14, a staggering $1.5 million increase over the week before.
This year’s Tony Awards were hosted by Grammy Award-winning singer P!NK, who opened the show in high-flying fashion as Peter Pan, before launching into a Moulin! Rouge/”Lady Marmalade”-type production number featuring more than 170 Broadway performers.
