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Speed-the-Plow
Broadway
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Opened Jan 1, 1988Play1987-1988 season1,078 seats2007 wks running
The story
Speed-the-Plow is a 1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As stated in The Producer's Perspective, "this is a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog (1997) and State and Main (2000)". As quoted in The Producer's Perspective, Jack Kroll of Newsweek described Speed-the-Plow as "another tone poem by our nation's foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy."
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)How it's doing
Strength score
70/100
Houses are 60.1% full lately, selling about $356,993 a week, with sales trending up (+2.2%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$380,177
Likely somewhere between $265,984 and $494,371, based on the last 21 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
16/100 · low
Current capacity: 69% · Recent trend: +2.1 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.
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2009 | $406,860 | down ▼ $13,127 | 69% | $70 | 🎉 Presidents Day |
| Feb 15, 2009 | $419,987 | up ▲ $96,495 | 72% | $69 | 🎉 Lincoln's Birthday |
| Feb 8, 2009 | $323,492 | up ▲ $20,025 | 58% | $66 | ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (27°F) |
| Feb 1, 2009 | $303,467 | down ▼ $12,278 | 55% | $66 | ❄️ snow · 🥶 cold (26°F) |
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
TheatreBernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Opening dateJan 1, 1988
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.