Grease Will NOT Offer Student Rush

[Kelly2]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:09pm

As per the box office today, this production of Grease will not have student rush, but will sell SRO after the show opens and when it is sold out. Just thought some of you might like to know.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:17pm

That's absolute crap. Especially with the cheapest seats being $71. I hope they get a rude awakening. All of the people who supported the show (many of them teens) aren't going to be able to afford to go see it. Now there are some grateful producers. Between this and Curtains, I find it utterly rediculous.

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:17pm

Does anyone really believe that this show is going to sell out? Seriously.

[Elphie4ever]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:19pm

urgh...
first of all i heard young frankenstein is not going to have a rush and i am really really really looking forward to watching grease with student rush tickets
are you kidding me no student rush and standing room only...wtf?

[Kelly2]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:24pm

I don't think it's a very wise move for a production targeting a student demographic, I was very surprised that they wouldn't be offering any type of student ticket at all.

And SRO...ugh, standing, for me, ruins my enjoyment of a show.

[rgaywrites]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:25pm

This is really not something to stress about, IMO. Its Grease and the producers are seriously overestimating the popularity of the show if they envision the show being sold out on a regular basis with two unknown leads. Hopefully they change their minds but will anyone really shed a tear if they can't get a cheap ticket to Grease?

[ben1986]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:28pm

To be blunt, like I was even going to go regardless!

[jv92]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:37pm

Do I smell a flop? Come on, really! The kids buying student rush would have helped a great deal. The producers, if they want a hit, would be smart to reconsider.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:38pm

That's wrong. It's a mistake on the producers part to not have a rush.

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:38pm

Surprising, considering the prime audience for the show. A dumb move on the producers' part IMO.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:45pm

Can I save us some time here?

Blah blah blah, rush is not a human right, yadda yadda yadda, how dare you feel so entitled, theatre is a business too, etc. etc. etc., the producers have no obligation to cater to penny-pinching youngsters, and...scene.

Now hopefully that's out of our system.

[Mistress_Spouzic]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 11:51pm

not an obligation but in the past few years its been the norm to have some kind of rush or lotto, so its not a far fetched expectation.

I certainly cant take advantage of 'standing' room...

[winston89]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:17am

I know that grease has a pretty big advance sale. But, I do wonder what the future for this show will look like after the advance ticket buyers came and went.

It's true that it's not a right that the shows must have some sort of rush. But, if your a show that is catering to a younger crowd it maks a smart move business wise to do so. I really don't think that this is going to be the kind fo show that older pepole will come in just for an afternoon preformance of it and then go back.

This will however, attract a younger high school/college aged crowed. And, as someone said before it is a dumb move for them not to. And, I too wonder how long this proudction will last.

I want ot bet on the fact that many people only watched it because it fuled thier fix on American Idol type shows and that it was just another one to watch and that most of the people that voted didn't really care who would win. I am sure that there had been some people who had viewd this as they do of other reality shows as nothing more then a game. Sure, they wanted their Sandy and Danny to win. But, they picked a pair just for the sake of it


And, I am sure that for the most part a majority of the people who support this show aren't going to be able to see it when it is on broadway and will wish they can.

[MickeyCT]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:19am

Kind of an ironic decision since the show is set... in a high school! And most of the characters are... students!

Sheesh!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:21am

You all think not having student rush tickets is going to affect how long the show runs?

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:25am

I wasn't that shocked that YF wasn't offering a rush or lotto, but Grease?? That does shock me.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:26am

But Disney shows skew even younger than Grease will, and they have neither rush nor lotto (except Tarzan). They're aiming at families with Gold Cards and tourists by the busload, not poor college students.

If I were them I'd do a lotto just to make some noise on the sidewalk, but what they can't sell to schools they can unload at TKTS for half price.

[winston89]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:49am

Wonderfulwizard,

No one said that the show not offering a rush would say that it wouldn't run as long. They are saying that the show is geared to stuend aged kids and that having a rush is a stupid move.

And, Broadwaylocal,

Your right, disney shows are geared to people with gold cards and younger kids who want thier parents to tkae them to the shows. Grease is geared to college students who canot afforde top price at a broadway theatre.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:53am

"Do I smell a flop? Come on, really! The kids buying student rush would have helped a great deal."

"But, if your a show that is catering to a younger crowd it maks a smart move business wise to do so. I really don't think that this is going to be the kind fo show that older pepole will come in just for an afternoon preformance of it and then go back.

This will however, attract a younger high school/college aged crowed. And, as someone said before it is a dumb move for them not to. And, I too wonder how long this proudction will last."

Sounds like it to me. A show runs on full price tickets, not on student rush. This won't affect how the show does at all.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:54am

Are we suppose to be shocked.... They got stupid Americans to cast the show... now they plan to finacially rape the stupid americans....

"It isn't making history, it isn't making art, it's a business"
- Curtains

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:55am

How stupid. Awful move.

Maybe they'll start doing a lotto or something later on in the run. This is a show where some people who maybe watched a few episodes of the reality show might want to see it. 78 bucks isn't a 'might'.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 1:53am

well, I was GOING to check this out will I was in NYC...but not for full price...yeah right...

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 2:34am

Are we suppose to be shocked.... They got stupid Americans to cast the show... now they plan to finacially rape the stupid americans....

Isn't that what stupid Americans are for?

This is a show where some people who maybe watched a few episodes of the reality show might want to see it. 78 bucks isn't a 'might'.

Not to mention airfare from Hoohaaville to New York City and a night in a hotel. Not gonna happen.

"Nancy Ann! Wha do we need to flah to Nuw Yurk Ceety to see GREASE? Alisandriansia's Sundae Skool is putin it up en thuh teekets ahr onlee $4.00!"

[MaronaDavies]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:40am

Taboo did something similar--no rush, no cheap tickets, nada. And in the process they priced out the people who would have been their primary audience. To be fair, I don't know if Taboo would have been able to eke out a long run in any case, but having those $20 tickets for the kids and those cheap seats in the back of the theatre would have helped them generate a much larger fan base and return customers.

This is a really misguided and foolish move on the part of the producers. Who do they think is going to see this show, if not the starving students/etc.? This show had a revival ten years ago, it's done all over the country in all manner of tours and regional productions, it's done overseas...neither Joe American nor the frequent NY theatregoers are going to kill themselves to pay through the nose for this. And the kids will keep their loyalties to shows like Spring Awakening, Rent and Wicked, which speak to them more than the dated Grease, and are actually affordable.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:18am

Foster that was the whole point i was making by saying "shocked" i was spelling it out.