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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Broadway
Richard Rodgers Theatre Opened Oct 14, 1961Musical1961-1962 season1,319 seats3375 wks running
The story
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name. The story concerns young, ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch, who, with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, rises from window washer to chairman of the board of the World Wide Wicket Company.
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)Awards & reviews
Reviews: positive· 88/100
“A classic musical that won seven Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.”
How it's doing
Strength score
46/100
Houses are 66% full lately, selling about $588,257 a week, with sales trending down (-6.7%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$524,963
Likely somewhere between $101,535 and $948,390, based on the last 65 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
21/100 · moderate
Current capacity: 81% · Recent trend: -2.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2012 | $651,665 | up ▲ $211,814 | 81% | $80 | — |
| May 13, 2012 | $439,851 | up ▲ $72,246 | 54% | $72 | 🎉 Truman Day |
| May 6, 2012 | $367,605 | down ▼ $108,372 | 43% | $76 | — |
| Apr 29, 2012 | $475,977 | down ▼ $41,957 | 53% | $79 | — |
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
TheatreRichard Rodgers Theatre
Opening dateOct 14, 1961
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.