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Other Desert Cities
Broadway
Vivian Beaumont Theater Opened Nov 3, 2011Play2011-2012 season1,080 seats763 wks running
The story
Other Desert Cities is a play by Jon Robin Baitz. The play premiered Off-Broadway in January 2011 and transferred to Broadway in November 2011, marking the Broadway debut of a Baitz play. The play was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other Desert Cities involves a family with differing political views and a long-held family secret.
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Strength score
85/100
Houses are 67.8% full lately, selling about $310,905 a week, with sales trending up (+4.4%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$389,105
Likely somewhere between $292,888 and $485,322, based on the last 36 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 87% · Recent trend: +2.3 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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Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2012 | $424,313 | up ▲ $78,243 | 87% | $80 | — |
| Jun 10, 2012 | $346,070 | up ▲ $85,236 | 72% | $78 | — |
| Jun 3, 2012 | $260,834 | down ▼ $34,108 | 61% | $70 | 🎉 Memorial Day |
| May 27, 2012 | $294,942 | down ▼ $8,483 | 65% | $74 | ☔ 5 rainy days |
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
TheatreVivian Beaumont Theater
Opening dateNov 3, 2011
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.