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

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!

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Stop screaming at me!

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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.

^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...

$170 premium seats are very well-priced.

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That is outrageous in this economy to charge that

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.

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.