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Master Class
Broadway
John Golden Theatre Opened Nov 5, 1995Play1995-1996 season800 seats1598 wks running
The story
Master Class is a 1995 play by American playwright Terrence McNally, presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life, in the 1970s. The play features incidental vocal music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini. The play opened on Broadway in 1995, with stars Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald winning Tony Awards.
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Strength score
73/100
Houses are 91.5% full lately, selling about $296,570 a week, with sales trending down (-1.9%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$302,801
Likely somewhere between $173,508 and $432,094, based on the last 12 weeks.
What could move it
- Holiday week — Labour Day
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 96% · Recent trend: +0.3 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 · 12 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2011 | $346,806 | up ▲ $171,984 | 96% | $70 | — |
| Aug 28, 2011 | $174,822 | down ▼ $105,907 | 91% | $60 | — |
| Aug 21, 2011 | $280,729 | down ▼ $40,056 | 87% | $63 | ☔ 4 rainy days |
| Aug 14, 2011 | $320,785 | up ▲ $2,326 | 92% | $68 | — |
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 dateNov 5, 1995
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.