Bette Midler Confirms Broadway Return in HELLO DOLLY — Page 26

haterobics said: "Ticketmaster is even worse, though, since they don't let you do anything across multiple dates. So, you've hit the one area where Telecharge is actually better... even if they won't let you only see $79 tix."

Here's a trick for Ticketmaster: From a show's calendar page, just right-click on "See Tickets" and select "Open in new tab". You can just keep opening tabs until you find tickets you want to buy.

I've done that to look through a ton of Hamilton and Book of Mormon dates. Works like a charm (and is much faster than Telecharge's system).

Oak2 said: "Your arguments make some sense, but I still feel there's a difference between raising the price due to actual scarcity, and withholding them and creating, as you outright admitted, is the "illusion" of scarcity. That's manipulation. That's lying to the customer to trick them into paying more."

But it only works if there is demand.

There are two other issues.

By not putting every ticket on sale, they also prevent scalpers from buying every good seat in the house before people have a chance to get them. We're a biased sample here. Many people don't know Bette is in Hello Dolly yet, and may not until there are more commercials, reviews, TV performances, etc. So, in that situation, paying more for not paying attention is fine. And it prevented the first 15 rows of every show already being owned by scalpers.

So, it gives people a better chance of getting a ticket, and from scalpers owning all the tickets. But they also don't want to sell the house out at $180/ticket if they are all going for 4-5x as much on StubHub later. If someone is going to have a financial windfall from Bette in Hello Dolly, it should be Bette and the people who produced Hello Dolly, not scalpers.

This is getting more exciting. From what's been offered right now, only Balcony seats are left for the first preview performance. And no Premium Seats were ever offered for this performance.



Looks like this this could turn into THE BOY FROM OZ of this coming season. I can already see the cancellation lines forming on Shubert Alley.

Am I the only one who finds that Bette going off for 3 weeks, barely 2 months after the show opens, is a little odd? I know it's a "scheduled" outage, but the show was announced a long time ago - at least a year before it is officially opening on Broadway. It seems a little irresponsible to vacation (if it is indeed a vacation) in what will be the prime post Tonys season.

Still haven't bought my tickets because I'm just hoping more are being released, but getting anxious. The few pairs of orchestra seats that were showing up for my date are gonna now, but they were the same seats each time.

LesWickedly said: "Still haven't bought my tickets because I'm just hoping more are being released, but getting anxious. The few pairs of orchestra seats that were showing up for my date are gonna now, but they were the same seats each time.



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I was waiting it out too but caved yesterday because of the same reason; the few seats that kept popping up for me suddenly started to disappear for multiple days I was considering. Wanted to go in may or early June but the earliest I could go was end of June. So I bit the bullet and bought them. Not sure if I regret it yet or not. Lol.

Ok, I think might jus bite the bullet, too. I was wanting two seats, but to get better seats we can just sit separately.

For those that have been in the theatre, would you recommend rows A or B (both on the side) of the balcony or center row E? As far as sight/leg room?

Stage Door Sally said: "Just got an email with my tickets, beautiful . Now the waiting begins. So much can change in the next several months. I'm particularly concerned about the presidential election potentially changing the climate of the country for the worse, making this event and others less fun and/or doable.



Was thinking exactly the same thing but didn't want to post because I thought I was just over-reacting.



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DAME said: "I HATE, HATE, HATE, the balcony of that theater. If that's my choice I would rather not go. "



Dame, why is that? I was looking at tickpick for suggestions, and ended up with Balcony seats. Why do you hate them?

I don't mind the Shubert balcony at all. It's one of the best balconies on Broadway IMO.

I ended up getting Row E, seats 101 and 102 in the balcony. Hoping they're decent!