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Falsettos
Broadway
John Golden Theatre Opened Apr 29, 1992Musical1991-1992 season800 seats1781 wks running
The story
Falsettos is a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn. The musical consists of March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), the last two installments in a trio of one-act musicals that premiered off-Broadway. The story centers on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. Much of the first act explores the impact his relationship with Whizzer has had on his family. The second act explores family dynamics that evolve as he and his ex-wife plan his son's bar mitzvah, which is complicated as Whizzer comes down with an early case of AIDS. Central to the musical are the themes of Jewish identity, gender roles, and gay life in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Strength score
81/100
Houses are 91% full lately, selling about $630,840 a week, with sales trending up (+0.6%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$626,454
Likely somewhere between $516,552 and $736,357, based on the last 15 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 99% · Recent trend: +1 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 · 15 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2017 | $661,019 | down ▼ $51,150 | 99% | $103 | 🎉 Christmas / New Year week, New Year's Day · ☔ 3 rainy days · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (31°F) |
| Jan 1, 2017 | $712,169 | up ▲ $165,730 | 96% | $99 | 🎉 Christmas / New Year week, Christmas Day |
| Dec 25, 2016 | $546,438 | down ▼ $64,077 | 83% | $88 | 🎉 Christmas / New Year week |
| Dec 18, 2016 | $610,516 | down ▼ $12,632 | 91% |
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
TheatreJohn Golden Theatre
Opening dateApr 29, 1992
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.