Good Night and Good Luck achieved the new record with an average ticket price of $302.07 and capacity of 101 percent at the Winter Garden Theater. The play, which sees Clooney play the journalist Edward R. Murrow as he takes aim at Senator Joseph McCarthy, broke the record during its second week of previews and is scheduled to open April 3.

UPDATE, with additional figures: Good Night, And Good Luck, the new play at the 1,545-seat Winter Garden Theatre co-written by and starring George Clooney in his Broadway debut, shattered the weekly box office record for a play last week by grossing $3,305,240 for just seven preview performances.

George Clooney said in a new interview that one of the most difficult aspects of portraying 20th-century broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in 'Good Night, and Good Luck' involves smoking prop cigarettes.