ADDAMS FAMILY IN CHICAGO - BREAK OPEN THE PIGGY BANK!!!

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:28pm

YIKES!

In the email I received today from Broadway in Chicago, Orchestra Seats for advance sale ADDAMS FAMILY tickets are as high as $170 each with service charges!

Are they serious???? For Previews???

Some "special offer" that turned out to be.
Maybe the cast takes you out to dinner before the show???

Just.....WOW!

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:38pm

or nathan lane gives you a reach around.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:40pm

Stop screaming at me!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:42pm

Why is this a shock?

In baseball, who pays for A Rod & C C'S salary. The same people who will pay Lane & Neuwirth's.

It is not brain surgery. What do you think Spiderman tickets will cost? It ain't gonna be pretty. As long as people keep paying they will keep jacking up the price.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:43pm

Roxy, you're going to bitch about ticket prices, buy full-price for you and Mrs R anyway, have a marvelous brunch at some place in Midtown, thoroughly enjoy the show, and then post about how you had a marvelous time and "the critics got it wrong on this one". So just spare us.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 9:44pm

You forgot, "Me and Mrs. R decided to splurge"

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:18pm

Don't forget about the shoes. For Heaven's sake, don't forget about the shoes.

[lightinthepizza2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:24pm

Poor people suck.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:42pm

170!!?? Yikes. Outrageous. We'll see what happens when it gets to NY...I know I won't pay it.

[raggballad2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:56pm

Mel Brooks will pick it up and tickets will be $450 for rear mezzanine!.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:00am

As high as $170? Does that mean there may be lower-priced orchestra tickets?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:03am

I was actually looking forward to this show. Now I hope it rots in hell with Young Frankenstein.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:04am

I just looked up the tickets on Ticketmaster, and the prices seem pretty standard to me. I don't even see a $170 option. Is this some other promotion or something? Are they prime orchestra seats they aren't selling online yet?

EDIT: The $170 price seems to be listed just under the Pre-Sale option as well as Preferred Seating. I have a feeling you can get decent seats at the normal prices.

Updated On: 5/27/09 at 12:04 AM

[Anakela]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:20am

$160.50 = premium seating center orch
$95.50 = orch
$95.50 = dress circle
$95.50 = loge
$75.50 = balcony
$50.50 = balcony (rear)
$35.50 = balcony (rear) (last two rows)

is what I'm coming up with doing a cursory TM search- prices seem about average for pre-discount code ticket pricing to me?

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:27am

They seem average prices for a show on Broadway, but here in Chicago the top price for a National Tour, or even an open-ended run like Wicked ranges from $75-$90 before all the bonus fees. In Chicago $165-$170 is almost unheard of.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:35am

Will there be a large chorus of singing boys and dancing girls in elaborate costumes?
Does this show have a concept?
I hope Uncle Fester does that light bulb mouth trick.
It has a Romeo/Juliet, Tony/Maria, Lucas/Wednesday story right?
who knows the plot?
Is it a musical YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU?
I wish Matthew Gumley was still Pugsley but Jackie Hofman as GrandMama is beyond the beyond.

[raggballad2]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:40am

^It is really high, but Mary Poppins's "Premium" is $147, I think Wicked was around there, and Jersey Boys' top price right now is $162.50. So the "Premium" seats aren't that different. But $95.50 is a lot for Orchestra/DC/Loge...

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 2:06am

I have my tickets already. They cost $88.00 each. They're in the sixth row.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 7:19am

$170 premium seats are very well-priced.

[Dancin Thru Life]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 10:06am

In NY, maybe...but this is a PREVIEW...in CHICAGO, people. It's way out of line.

The date and location I picked with the "presale offer" came out to be $169.50 per ticket with service charges and "$2.50 express printing" charge.

Thanks for looking up every other date and seat location pricing. It might be helpful to others. It just made me skip the offer entirely.

I hope the rest of you enjoy the show!

[ryantbo2]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 10:08am

That is outrageous in this economy to charge that

[WOSQ]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 10:34am

Were I to buy tix for this show out of town, I would buy them for the last week when all the changes have gone in and the cast and crew are used to doing the show. It would be a better smoother show.

Previews, unless they're comps, would be the last choice.

[Amneris]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 4:41pm

prices are $95.00 top ticket for the promotion/special deals. Maybe if you clicked the other ticket prices you'd see that there were better, more affordable options.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 6:03pm

To PG

Before you go into your normal knee jerk rant against me , kindly remember these 2 things

1. Someone other than me started this thread
2. Many others in the thread decry the prices also

I put up with your inane threads without ripping you every 5 seconds but apparently you have nothing better to do. If someone proposed tickets for $1000 each & all on the board were against it, you would come after me. Sad very sad.

As Confucious said: Paranoia will destroy ya

Have a nice day

P S

Make sure you reply immediately & make sure you are negative as always.

Posted: 5/27/09 at 6:51pm

I just don't get ticket price outrage. When the Producers previewed here, I remember paying around $200 for a really great pair of seats. Before the run ended, tickets were on EBay for $250, $350 $500.

If this show is as good as it sounds, these $170 tickets (if they exist- I can't see anything like that when I look but I don't have AMEX so will have to scramble to buy Tickets Friday) will be going for twice that EASY. Money is tight right now so the BF and I will probably be up in the cheap seats- the same place we saw Sweet Charity. The two of us will see the show and spend $100.

Of course, the big irony is, if the show is REALLY BAD- if Nathan Lane sings a song on a toilet, say, the same queens who are ranting how no one would EVER pay $170 to see a show in CHICAGO will not only buy those tickets but will be running out to LaGuardia and spending $600 on airline tickets, $150 on a hotel room and $100 for brunch on Sunday so they can come to Chicago and tell all their friends how DREADFUL the tacky thing is.