Orpheus Descending (Broadway, Neil Simon Theatre, 1989) | Playbill

Orpheus Descending

Broadway
Revival


SYNOPSIS:

Tennessee Williams’s steamy and lyrical Orpheus Descending is a love story and a tragedy, telling of the passion of a storekeeper’s wife and a wandering guitar player and their doomed escape attempt from a hell of small-mindedness. Set in a dry-goods store in the 1950s deep South, the play’s toxic brew of Jim Crow, xenophobia, and provincialism evokes an American past that unfortunately is not the past, with open acceptance of hatred leading inevitably to violence.

People (49)

Awards

Outer Critics Circle
1990 Outstanding Actress in a Play Nominee
Tony Award
1990 Lighting Design (Play or Musical) Nominee

QUICK STATS

(as of Dec 17, 1989) Total Current Gross: $3,598,732.00 Highest Weekly Gross: $317,822.00 (Week Ending Oct 8, 1989)   Average Ticket Price: $31.14 Average % Capacity: 79.89%

Grosses

Week Ending Week Number This Week Gross Potential Gross Diff $ Avg Ticket Top Ticket Seats Sold Seats in Theatre Perfs Previews % Cap This Week Diff % cap
Dec 17, 1989 29 $223,841.00 $0.00 $2,340.00 $28.37 $0.00 7,889 1,320 8 0 74.71% 5.51%
Dec 10, 1989 28 $221,501.00 $0.00 $11,076.00 $30.31 $0.00 7,307 1,320 8 0 69.20% 2.92%
Dec 3, 1989 27 $210,425.00 $0.00 -$7,172.00 $30.07 $0.00 6,999 1,320 8 0 66.28% 4.08%
Nov 26, 1989 26 $217,597.00 $0.00 -$21,779.00 $33.13 $0.00 6,568 1,320 8 0 62.20% -9.58%
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