Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 11/27/16- Page 4

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/29/16 at 7:37pm

MinnieFay said: "If those are the only 2 choices --- then I'll pick the scalpers!"

[South Florida]

Posted: 11/29/16 at 7:48pm

All these years and I only now noticed what a schmuck you are.

 

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/29/16 at 11:35pm

 

Iris Tinkerbell said:

"And the price increase being a reaction to resale prices is just a lame justification imo."

Absolutely. Actually, it's beyond lame. It's beyond the blue horizon lame.

"Again, Harry Potter manages with simple measures like the only way to get your ticket is to pick it up at the box office in person hours before the show."

Didn't Lazarus enact a similar policy? So it can be done ---- that is, if one wants to do it. Where there's a will there's a way, so the saying goes.

So where's the will?

"It's possible if you want to and if you want to keep the show affordable. Clearly, that is not a priority of Hamilton producers."

It reminds me of that lyric in Irma La Douce: "Grab, grab, grab, grab as much as you can."

 

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/29/16 at 11:37pm

"MinnieFay said: "If those are the only 2 choices --- then I'll pick the scalpers!""

 

Ha, ha, ha! Love it!

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 1:04am

mailhandler777 said: "Just stating that those $10 lottery tickets are sometimes sold for $200+."

If they don't go to the lottery winners, they cease to be promotionally-priced lottery tickets. Not sure what the scandal is there.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 1:12am

My comment has nothing to do with the commercial nature of the theatre as a luxury purchase. It's all about combatting scalpers. Though some seem intent on ignoring the mechanics, there is no extant means of defeating scalpers under current law other than by pricing their risk out of the market. NB that a producer can do something that a scalper cannot-follow the demand curve without risk.

[yellibean2]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 10:47am

Here's something I've been wondering for a while: if LMM and the Hamilton team are so opposed to scalping and resellers why do they keep selling tickets on Ticketmaster which has a resell option built into it? Why not sell on Telecharge which IIRC doesn't have that option? Or alternatively, considering how much money Ticketmaster is making through Hamilton, it seems like they could just ask to have that option disabled. 

Updated On: 11/30/16 at 10:47 AM

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:15am

yellibean2 said: "Here's something I've been wondering for a while: if LMM and the Hamilton team are so opposing to scalping and resellers why do they keep selling tickets on Ticketmaster which has a resell option built into it? Why not sell on Telecharge which IIRC doesn't have that option? Or alternatively, considering how much money Ticketmaster is making through Hamilton, it seems like they could just ask to have that option disabled. "

Turning it off doesn't stop scalping, it just switches the tickets from being sold on StubHub vs. Ticketmaster. Many people prefer the Ticketmaster resale, since when you buy a ticket on there, they reissue a new ticket for that seat and cancel the old bar code. Whereas StubHub just lets you download the original buyer's PDF, but has no measure to stop that person from selling that PDF elsewhere, repeatedly.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:16am

You don't just choose which ticketing provider. The ticketing providers are negotiated by the theater owners. All Nederlander theaters use Ticketmaster. The Rodgers is a Nederlander house. They can't use Telecharge.

[yellibean2]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:47am

haterobics: I understand that people will just go elsewhere if they can't resell on Ticketmaster, but I'm just confused as to why there's basically an official resell option when the team keeps railing on against it. 

neonlightsxo: Yeah, I figured that might be the case. But still - don't you think they have the power to get Ticketmaster to disable that option for Hamilton?

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:54am

yellibean2 said: "haterobics: I understand that people will just go elsewhere if they can't resell on Ticketmaster, but I'm just confused as to why there's basically an official resell option when the team keeps railing on against it. "

They are against the people using loopholes/technology to game the system, such as bots that buy hundreds to thousands of tickets as soon as they go on sale. They have reduced the number of tickets people can buy per session, and have canceled bot purchases, so they are trying to do what they can. A lot of those measures didn't even kick in until the later blocks that went on sale for next year, though.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 1:02pm

There is of course a large culture of entitlement on this board but I don't want to confound this issue. The Hamilton people are making more tickets available at extremely reduced prices. They are also investing in the fight against gaming the system. Yes there are many people not able to afford tickets but there are many tickets going to people much less able to afford them than the whiners. Reselling tickets is not evil; gaining tickets unfairly and then price gouging is. 

[GreenGables]

Posted: 11/30/16 at 1:37pm

Here, here!