Anyone Out There Over 30 on This Board- Page 4

[Huey's Pop]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 4:34pm

Almost 60 here (oh my God, how can that be???), living in Los Angeles.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 5:44pm

I'm over 30 and do not live in NY. I never pay full price for a ticket either(well maybe a few times if a standby or understudy I wanna see is going on). There is always discounts,partial view and upper mezz. I'm not a seat whore though so it really doesn't matter where I sit.

[Paul W. Thompson]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 6:03pm

I am over 30, and when I come to New York I pay full price. I am lucky, and it's by choice.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 6:06pm

I am under 30 but above 20. My social security number is higher than 153-26-4737 but lower than 184-43-3587. My credit card number is 7 more than 3545747025157447, then divided by 1/2 + my age. My birthday month is after the start of hurricane season but before labor day. The date is included within the third week. My number address is the middle 2 digits of my social security number + my mothers age. The street name is using the first letter of the alphabet, plus the 9th, 18th, 14th, and a couple others intermingled.

Any other questions?

Updated On: 12/8/08 at 06:06 PM

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 6:10pm

I am over 50 and not by a small margin

I don't understand the question. If you want discounted tickets, you make plans in advance and can get them. I have, but not sure what this has to do with age. You mean, student rush and such?

I hope that those under 30 continue to support Broadway and by all means, let them have a discount.

Maybe someone wiser (although maybe not older) than me can explain this thread to me.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 6:54pm

I'm over 30 and this thread gave me a headache !

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 6:58pm

My name is Luka...you know the rest.

[show lover]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 9:44pm

Amazing how someone stating an age gets people so MAD. You all have blown this out of shape.
All I am saying is that prices are way to high for tickets.
Stars get paid to much money for theater unlike London where to them it is an art and an honor.
Sets are to expensive go back to more sparse sets letting us use our minds if we have any left.
This is an ART and should be remembered as that.
Am I making any sense come on guys THINK
Updated On: 12/8/08 at 09:44 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 9:54pm

Am I making any sense

No.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 10:19pm

show lover,

Between the fragmented sentences, kind of all over the place comments and the bad spelling (May just be typos), I think you are only making some sense.

I pretty much get what you are saying. I have gone back to your original post. As far as the comment about paying high prices for good theatre and not just Disney....well, there is way more than Disney on Broadway. And there has been A LOT of good theatre on Broadway. Have you seen Doubt, The History Boys, Caroline or Change, Assassins, the Sweeney revival, the Company revival, Gypsy (I haven;t seen it yet), The Pillowman, RENT, The Drowsy Chaperone? (Just to name a few and I know others can continue that list starting from the time The Lion King hit B'Way). There is a lot out there worth the full price.

[Radiana]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 10:26pm

Jane 2 you changed your Avatar. I fell in love with the pink apartment building you had earlier. I don't know where that is but i want to live there.

I was so excited to read the heading on this thread thinking that this would be another nostalgia thing. The Remember When thread kind of died out.

So I've been reading through and although I was confused at first by what the OP was saying, I got the jist of it. He wants the price of tickets to come way down just like gas is doing. I'm sure that would be great except for the fact that the people on that stage and behind the scenes work pretty darn hard for their money. They should be compensated fairly.

I do have to say something in OP's defense. He brought a few of us baby boomers together.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 10:45pm

Sets are to expensive go back to more sparse sets letting us use our minds if we have any left.


Sets weren't so sparse back in the day either. Theymay not be as expensive as they are now, but scalng back a design for the sake of scaling back a design accomplishes nothing.

If a huge, elaborate design fits the show then that's the type of design that should be created. If a sparse set fits the concept of the show, than by all means create a sparse set.

You create the type design that fits the show, while at the same time is within budget. It takes more planning and consideration than to just say "make sets more sparse".