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La Bête
Broadway
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Opened Feb 10, 1991Play1990-1991 season1,066 seats1845 wks running
The story
La Bête is a 1991 comedy play by American playwright David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière-inspired story, set in 17th-century France, pits dignified, stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe, against the foppish, frivolous street entertainer Valere, whom the troupe's patron, Prince Conti, wishes them to bring aboard. Despite Elomire's violent objections, the company is forced to perform one of Valere's own plays, which results in dramatic changes to the future of Elomire, Valere, and the company itself.
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Strength score
74/100
Houses are 47.5% full lately, selling about $248,329 a week, with sales trending up (+5.1%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$313,191
Likely somewhere between $173,806 and $452,577, based on the last 16 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
19/100 · low
Current capacity: 68% · Recent trend: +1.9 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 · 16 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2011 | $335,673 | up ▲ $27,124 | 68% | $62 | 🥶 cold (26°F) |
| Jan 2, 2011 | $308,549 | up ▲ $124,538 | 49% | $69 | 🎉 Christmas / New Year week, New Year's Day · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (28°F) |
| Dec 26, 2010 | $184,011 | down ▼ $48,372 | 41% | $64 | 🎉 Christmas / New Year week, Christmas Day · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (30°F) |
| Dec 19, 2010 | $232,383 | down ▼ $20,696 | 42% |
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
TheatreEugene O'Neill Theatre
Opening dateFeb 10, 1991
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.