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A Delicate Balance
Broadway
Al Hirschfeld Theatre Opened Sep 22, 1966Play1966-1967 season1,437 seats3117 wks running
The story
A Delicate Balance is a three-act play by Edward Albee, written in 1965 and 1966. Premiered in 1966, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, the first of three he received for his work.
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Strength score
46/100
Houses are 74.6% full lately, selling about $535,011 a week, with sales trending down (-5.8%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$408,234
Likely somewhere between $284,750 and $531,717, based on the last 18 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
35/100 · moderate
Current capacity: 67% · Recent trend: -2 pts/wk. A warning sign from empty-and-falling seats — not a prediction that it will close.
Box office (weekly grosses)
Weekly sales & how full
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Gold area = weekly ticket sales (left axis); the blue line = how full the house was (right axis, %). Dashed lines mark Tony Awards night.
Average ticket paid (box office)
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What the typical seat actually sold for — total box-office sales divided by seats filled, week by week. This is the all-sales average, not the discounted TKTS price.
Source: Broadway League grosses via Playbill · 18 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2015 | $432,887 | down ▼ $58,876 | 67% | $100 | 🎉 Presidents Day · ☔ 3 rainy days · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (15°F) |
| Feb 15, 2015 | $491,763 | up ▲ $34,891 | 75% | $102 | 🎉 Lincoln's Birthday · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (20°F) |
| Feb 8, 2015 | $456,872 | down ▼ $6,113 | 69% | $103 | ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (21°F) |
| Feb 1, 2015 | $462,985 | down ▼ $99,865 | 67% |
TKTS discounts
Not spotted on TKTS yet
This show has been full price on our watch — we'll log it the moment it hits the TKTS discount board, and start tracking how deep the cut goes.
At a glance
TheatreAl Hirschfeld Theatre
Opening dateSep 22, 1966
CategoryBroadway
StatusClosed
Production details, synopsis, poster, and cast come from this show's Playbill page; weekly sales from the Broadway League report via Playbill; discount data from the public TKTS Live board. BoothHistory is an independent tracker, not affiliated with this production, the Broadway League, or TDF.