With top price seats at $350, the Schoenfeld Theatre run could do even better business than the 1992 film
Forget carving it up – the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross is raking it in real nice. With Al Pacino leading the cast, the production took more than $700,000 (£439,500) during its first four previews alone.
With premium tickets for the run selling at $350, box office takings were more than 119% of the Schoenfeld Theatre's maximum in line with the theatres standard prices. The average ticket price paid was $164 – the second highest rate on Broadway, behind hit musical The Book of Mormon.
A comparable star vehicle at the same theatre, the 2009 run of A Steady Rain starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, averaged only $150,000 per performance over its 13-week run. Glengarry took an average of $176,000 last week. Its last Broadway revival in 2005 took around $52,000 a show.
It means that David Mamet's play, which follows a...
Forget carving it up – the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross is raking it in real nice. With Al Pacino leading the cast, the production took more than $700,000 (£439,500) during its first four previews alone.
With premium tickets for the run selling at $350, box office takings were more than 119% of the Schoenfeld Theatre's maximum in line with the theatres standard prices. The average ticket price paid was $164 – the second highest rate on Broadway, behind hit musical The Book of Mormon.
A comparable star vehicle at the same theatre, the 2009 run of A Steady Rain starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, averaged only $150,000 per performance over its 13-week run. Glengarry took an average of $176,000 last week. Its last Broadway revival in 2005 took around $52,000 a show.
It means that David Mamet's play, which follows a...
- 10/23/2012
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
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