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...clear how long the play would have to run in order to turn a profit. Enron is playing at Broadhurst Theaters, which has room for an audience of 1,186. Of those seats, 733 are on the theater's main floor. Tickets for most of those seats will cost $121.50, but the producers hope to sell a yet-to-be-determined number of so-called premium seats for as much as $251.50 on Friday and Saturday nights. In the theater's balcony, tickets will range from $121.50 for the best views to $66.50 for the back rows. (See pictures...
...performance. A sold-out week at full prices could generate as much as $1.1 million. At that rate, the show could be profitable in as little as two months, once you factor in the three weeks of previews, when ticket sales are likely to be light. Few plays, though, are able to generate that level of sales. The recent hit God of Carnage has had a handful of weeks when box-office sales topped $1 million. But that play, unlike Enron, had a number of big-name stars...
...instead, Enron on an average night only fills about half the seats, it could take as long as five months before the play turns a profit. If only a quarter of the seats sell for full price, the play, much like the company it dramatizes, will end up being a financial bust...
...were so used to winning, and being so much more talented than the other teams that even if we didn’t play our best, we knew we could still pull out a victory,” Brent recalls...
Though Brent had his parents to teach him this method, Mike had to learn it the hard way. Playing Alabama during the 1982 season, Mike accidentally blocked his own team’s punt late in the fourth quarter, when he backed into the punter and the ball hit off his head. The play cost the Nittany Lions, who were down by just three points, the game, as the Crimson Tide recovered the fumble and went...