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Actually, I appreciate the advice on both issues. This has been enormously helpful.

You folks are great! And fast! Sadly, there are no cheap seats available for Billy Elliott...just the pricey ones. We'll have to make plans to see it our next trip. It's NEVER discounted, so I wouldn't feel like such a chump paying full price for it on this trip, but alas, it is not to be. Looks like we could get rear mezzanine for Next to Normal and for Ragtime, and I'll check on Hair. I thought it might be too good to be true when I got a $120 hotel room....

Right--I'm looking to sit in the cheap seats! We don't usually, and I'm trying to make sure I pick the theater where the cheap seats are not a total waste of time and money. I saw Evita from the top of the house back in the day and there was a video screen I couldn't see from where I was sitting...that's the sort of thing I want to avoid if possible.

I bring my family to NYC to see shows on Broadway a couple of times a year. We normally get discounted front mezzanine seats via BroadwayBox or TDF. This year there do not seem to be ANY discounts available for the time we are able to get there. We'd like to see 2-3 shows while we are in town but simply can't at $500-$600/show. Of the following, which would be the most tolerable viewed from the balcony? Ragtime (Neil Simon) Memphis (Shubert) A Little Night Music (Walter Kerr) Billy Elliott (I...