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The Merchant of Venice
Broadway
Winter Garden TheatreBurton's New Theatre (1856–1859)Laura Keene's Variety House (1854–1856)Metropolitan Hall (1851–1854)Jenny Lind Hall (1850–1851)Tripler Hall (1850)Play1,526 seats
The story
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)How it's doing
Strength score
92/100
Houses are 102.1% full lately, selling about $1,054,236 a week, with sales trending up (+2.9%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$1,200,422
Likely somewhere between $788,920 and $1,611,925, based on the last 15 weeks.
What could move it
- Holiday week — Presidents Day
Closing-risk signal
1/100 · low
Current capacity: 103% · Recent trend: -0.2 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 · 15 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2011 | $1,125,273 | up ▲ $19,822 | 103% | $136 | — |
| Feb 13, 2011 | $1,105,451 | up ▲ $10,936 | 101% | $136 | 🎉 Lincoln's Birthday · 🥶 cold (25°F) |
| Feb 6, 2011 | $1,094,515 | up ▲ $0 | 100% | $136 | ☔ 3 rainy days · 🥶 cold (26°F) |
| Jan 9, 2011 | $1,114,050 | down ▼ $61,700 | 102% | $135 |
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
TheatreWinter Garden TheatreBurton's New Theatre (1856–1859)Laura Keene's Variety House (1854–1856)Metropolitan Hall (1851–1854)Jenny Lind Hall (1850–1851)Tripler Hall (1850)
Opening date—
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.