BOM sets ticket price record — Page 2

A lot of posters on this board need to take an Economics 101 class before they enter these threads. Supply and demand, kids. Apple could charge way less than it does for iPads and iPhones and still make bank - but it charges more because people are willing to pay it.

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"I fail to see how a show trying to make money is greedy. The bottom line is this is in demand right now so they are able to charge a lot of money for tickets."

Because they are greedy.

I know so many people who can no longer afford to go to see a show even at discounted prices. I myself am on a budget and the prices are crazy.

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Updated On: 6/17/11 at 08:23 PM

And yet, this last season was the biggest grossing, most widely attended ever. MORE people are going and spending MORE money on tickets.

How many people still boast that they paid a grand to see The Producers -- and how many others would care?

And how many of those people forgot the show after a week?

Judging from the remarks elsewhere on Matt you have to wonder if that money wasn't wasted before the fact.

Updated On: 6/17/11 at 10:31 PM

This is ridiculous. Prices are not too high. If they were, the prices would go down. There is a limited supply of seats to the Book of Mormon. If those seats get filled every night at the exorbitant prices, then those prices are not too high. Furthermore, if people still want seats and can't get any even if they can pay the current price, then prices are too low.

If you're not willing to save up that much money to pay for the show, then you clearly don't value the show that much. There are people who do. Enough to fill the theater night after night.

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I haven't seen the show yet and hope to in the near future, if i can afford tickets!!! At those prices it'll be 2013 for me to be able to afford and I'm sure there will be a new musical that I'd much rather see at a cheaper price. Plus, all in all I wasn't really sold by the number presented on the Tony Awards. Seemed somewhat generic South Park and a blatant attempt at racial humor.

I really want to go to Per Se. But I can never get myself to fork over the $185 per person. I would really like to drive there in my Mercedes too. But that Ain't happenin'! So I'll take the commuter train to Bubba Gumps (not really..ew!)

Fair? what's fair? That's life. I won't starve and it's not like there's a lack of good cheap theatre around. Just go off Bway or off-off Bway or see a local college play or wait til Book of Mormon tours in a few years and see it in your local touring house for $60. Or try SRO etc.

It's supply and demand combined with the fact that not everybody can afford everything.

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