Recently on Broadway
Picnic
Broadway
Music Box Theatre Opened Feb 19, 1953Play1952-1953 season1,009 seats3826 wks running
The story
Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway, on 19 February 1953 in a Theatre Guild production, directed by Joshua Logan, which ran for 477 performances.
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)How it's doing
Strength score
91/100
Houses are 78.6% full lately, selling about $250,557 a week, with sales trending up (+7.5%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$305,868
Likely somewhere between $257,505 and $354,231, based on the last 11 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 91% · Recent trend: +1.4 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
Loading chart…
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)
Loading chart…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2013 | $331,975 | up ▲ $29,197 | 91% | $61 | 🎉 Presidents Day · 🥶 cold (30°F) |
| Feb 17, 2013 | $302,778 | up ▲ $64,216 | 86% | $60 | 🎉 Lincoln's Birthday · 🥶 cold (32°F) |
| Feb 10, 2013 | $238,562 | down ▼ $17,558 | 71% | $57 | ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (27°F) |
| Feb 3, 2013 | $256,120 | down ▼ $5,441 | 73% | $59 |
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
TheatreMusic Box Theatre
Opening dateFeb 19, 1953
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.