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The Crucible
Broadway
Broadway theatre Opened Jan 22, 1953Play1952-1953 season1,763 seats3 principal cast3830 wks running
The story
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was later questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
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🏆 Tony· 1 win
How it's doing
Strength score
82/100
Houses are 84.6% full lately, selling about $520,245 a week, with sales trending up (+1.7%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$571,658
Likely somewhere between $389,133 and $754,184, based on the last 37 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
0/100 · low
Current capacity: 96% · Recent trend: +1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2016 | $613,098 | up ▲ $102,848 | 96% | $84 | — |
| Jul 10, 2016 | $510,250 | up ▲ $3,169 | 84% | $80 | 🎉 Independence Day, July 4th weekend · ☔ 3 rainy days |
| Jul 3, 2016 | $507,081 | down ▼ $7,835 | 88% | $76 | 🎉 July 4th weekend · ☔ 3 rainy days |
| Jun 26, 2016 | $514,916 | up ▲ $9,374 | 83% | $82 |
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.
Cast
Arthur KennedyE. G. MarshallBeatrice Straight
At a glance
TheatreBroadway theatre
Opening dateJan 22, 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.