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The Royal Family
Broadway
Todd Haimes Theatre Opened Dec 28, 1927Play1927-1928 season740 seats5138 wks running
The story
The Royal Family is a play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Its premiere on Broadway was at the Selwyn Theatre on 28 December 1927, where it ran for 345 performances to close in October 1928. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1927–1928.
Read more on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)How it's doing
Strength score
53/100
Houses are 76.4% full lately, selling about $207,542 a week, with sales trending down (-6.4%/week). Built from real ticket sales — not a profit guess.
Next week, we expect
$162,463
Likely somewhere between $86,512 and $238,415, based on the last 12 weeks.
Closing-risk signal
12/100 · low
Current capacity: 82% · Recent trend: -1.5 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 · 12 weeks.Every week's full grosses board →
Recent weeks
| Week ending | Sales | vs last wk | How full | Avg ticket | That week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2009 | $184,471 | up ▲ $36,351 | 82% | $43 | — |
| Dec 6, 2009 | $148,120 | down ▼ $12,950 | 67% | $42 | ☔ 4 rainy days · ❄️ snow |
| Nov 29, 2009 | $161,070 | down ▼ $40,817 | 66% | $47 | 🎉 Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving week |
| Nov 22, 2009 | $201,887 | down ▼ $57,956 | 64% | $60 | — |
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
TheatreTodd Haimes Theatre
Opening dateDec 28, 1927
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.