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Machinal
Broadway
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Opened Sep 7, 1928Play1928-1929 season1,079 seats5102 wks running
The story
Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one of the highpoints of Expressionist theatre in history of the American stage.
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)How it's doing
Strength score
89/100
Houses are 71.6% full lately, selling about $226,888 a week, with sales trending up (+6.2%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$295,146
Likely somewhere between $234,056 and $356,236, based on the last 11 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 85% · Recent trend: +0.6 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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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 · 11 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2014 | $300,119 | up ▲ $14,391 | 85% | $61 | 🥶 cold (24°F) |
| Feb 23, 2014 | $285,728 | up ▲ $69,711 | 79% | $62 | 🎉 Presidents Day · ☔ 3 rainy days |
| Feb 16, 2014 | $216,017 | up ▲ $678 | 65% | $57 | 🎉 Lincoln's Birthday · ☔ 3 rainy days · ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (22°F) |
| Feb 9, 2014 | $215,339 | up ▲ $19,138 | 62% | $60 |
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
TheatreGerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Opening dateSep 7, 1928
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.