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A Streetcar Named Desire
Broadway
Ethel Barrymore Theatre Opened Dec 3, 1947Play1947-1948 season1,058 seats4098 wks running
The story
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams which was first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley.
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Strength score
85/100
Houses are 61.5% full lately, selling about $386,243 a week, with sales trending up (+10.3%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$565,673
Likely somewhere between $432,850 and $698,497, based on the last 31 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 85% · Recent trend: +4.6 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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Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2012 | $614,897 | up ▲ $126,798 | 85% | $78 | — |
| Jul 15, 2012 | $488,099 | up ▲ $108,144 | 77% | $68 | — |
| Jul 8, 2012 | $379,955 | up ▲ $30,651 | 63% | $64 | 🎉 Independence Day, July 4th weekend |
| Jul 1, 2012 | $349,304 | up ▲ $15,094 | 56% | $67 | 🎉 July 4th weekend |
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
TheatreEthel Barrymore Theatre
Opening dateDec 3, 1947
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.