But we had our weekly losses even at this passive stage.

For the week, the Dow lost 37.96 points, its third weekly loss in a row.

Equally large declines in broader measures gave the stock market its steepest weekly loss since 1989.

As the problems in Chiapas dragged on without a formal settlement, the market registered five straight weekly losses.

With an average ticket price of $37.50 for eight shows a week, that represents a potential weekly loss of $36,300.

That's a far cry from the miserable days of late April, when audiences were running at less than 40 percent and weekly losses sometimes reached $50,000.

Last week, for example, "Seussical" grossed only $280,924, representing a weekly loss of some $200,000.

For most of the indexes, the weekly losses were the steepest since October 1998.

The 2.9 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average gave the stock market its worst weekly losses since 1989.

Yesterday's drop brought the blue-chip indicator's to its largest weekly loss ever: 158.78 points, or 6 percent.