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I come to NYC each year to catch as many shows as I can during my stay. I have been appalled at the surge (to me it seems) in ticket prices on Telecharge/Ticketmaster. I was typically able to secure an off center orchestra seat for under $200 in the past. In fact, in March, I purchased a ticket for under $200 for Tootsie.Now such tickets for Mockingbird and Moulin Rouge run at least $250-500 for the cheapest off-center orchestra or mezzanine seats. Would it ever be better to go right to the b...

Loved the Stritch story. But she was from another era, the Golden Age of Broadway, when legends like Merman, Martin and Channing never, or rarely, missed performances or relied on understudies. Check the previous posts about Carousel to see comments that it has been difficult to come to a performance when all of the leads were performing.

I bought tickets to the Saturday evening performance of Carousel with the hopes of seeing Renee Fleming before she left the show. I then discovered that she would be singing Danny Boy at John McCain's funeral that morning and figured that there was no way she would fly back to NYC on this day to play the evening performance. I just knew her understudy would go on. I was so wrong. This magnificent pro not only sang a moving tribute to John McCain in DC in the morning but she returned to Broadw...

No one, as great as they are, can touch John Raitt, the original Billy Bigelow.

I saw DEH on Wednesday evening, August 30, and Ben was out. Usher just said he's decided to take some time off No explanation. We came all the way from Georgia just to see Ben. Rachel Ray Jones was off also.