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The Pajama Game
Broadway
St. James Theatre Opened May 13, 1954Musical1953-1954 season1,709 seats3762 wks running
The story
The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his choreography debut. The story deals with labor troubles and romance in a pajama factory.
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Strength score
78/100
Houses are 100.9% full lately, selling about $426,461 a week, with sales trending down (-1.2%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$391,511
Likely somewhere between $291,026 and $491,996, based on the last 22 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
1/100 · low
Current capacity: 99% · 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.
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2006 | $364,524 | down ▼ $48,022 | 99% | $102 | — |
| Jun 11, 2006 | $412,546 | down ▼ $62,638 | 101% | $81 | — |
| Jun 4, 2006 | $475,184 | up ▲ $33,004 | 101% | $81 | 🎉 Memorial Day · ☔ 3 rainy days |
| May 28, 2006 | $442,180 | up ▲ $7,790 | 101% | $75 | — |
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
TheatreSt. James Theatre
Opening dateMay 13, 1954
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.