\'Glengarry\' Revival, With Pacino and Cannavale, Recoups on Broadway

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Al Pacino, left, and Bobby Cannavale in a Broadway revival of David Mamet's “Glengarry Glen Ross,” directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the Schoenfeld Theater.

Send the word to Mitch and Murray and all the guys down at the home office: those broken, backstabbing salesmen of “Glengarry Glen Ross” have turned a profit on the latest Broadway revival of that David Mamet play.

Press representatives for the production, which stars Bobby Cannavale as the office hotshot Ricky Roma and Al Pacino as the past-his-prime chiseler Shelly Levene, said on Wednesday that it has recouped its $3.3 million capitalization. After delaying its original opening date by nearly a month, the play opened on Dec. 8 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater to mixed reviews. (In The New York Times, Ben Brantley lamented its “strange combination of comic shtick and existential weariness.”) This “Glengarry,” which is directed by Daniel Sullivan, has nonetheless been a box-office smash, grossing more than $1.2 million in ticket sales for the week that ended Dec. 16.

“Glenga rry Glen Ross,” which will run through Jan. 20, is the first production of the current Broadway season to recoup its investment, a marked contrast to Mr. Mamet's new play “The Anarchist,” which closed after only 23 previews and 17 performances.