Friday, July 3, 2026

Hugh Jackman’s Radio City Shows This Weekend Lacking Customers at Night, Afternoon Show OK: Result of Tourism Boycott

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Wolverine is having a lot of trouble selling tickets.

Hugh Jackman’s shows this weekend coming up at Radio City Music Hall are a mixed bag.

The evening shows on Friday and Saturday are mostly open, with hundreds of seats available.

The only show that’s sold well is the Saturday matinee at 2pm.

This suggests an older audience will pony up for Hugh, whose tickets are about the same or lower than a Broadway musical.

Either that, or the older people are scared of going to Rockefeller Center — the safest place in the world — when it’s dark outside.

Hugh has done a lot to have value added including appearance by America’s favorite couple, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Maybe he’ll have some new surprises this weekend.

What’s going on here? Lack of tourists. Just as with Broadway shows, attendance is way off because Canadians won’t come here and foreigners who might be not white are afraid of being hassled, arrested, or deported. 

All thanks to Donald Trump. 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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