Great Comet prices?

[endofthelane]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 3:14pm

Hi all,
Long time reader, first time poster! Went and saw "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet" this weekend and LOVED it....then came here to read other's thoughts, and was surprised to see so few posts about it. We did the rush, but I'm wondering, do you think they've out-priced themselves? Even the $49 Rush felt steep (though was well worth it)...just wondering if anyone else has decided against going because of the price?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 4:14pm

"Even the $49 Rush felt steep (though was well worth it) ..."

Jesus Christ. Seriously.

[endofthelane]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 4:20pm

Sorry Namo...I don't mean to sound cheap...but it is literally the most expensive rush in town, Broadway included! And the rush doesn't even include the meal...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 4:21pm

Somebody better call you a whaaaaaaaambulence.

People act as if seats being sold to them at a loss is a constitutional right.

[endofthelane]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 4:27pm

I definitely don't think that...it's just interesting to compare their rush to every other rush in town, and wondering if the higher prices are affecting people's desire to go...Have you seen the show Namo?

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 4:42pm

I thought your post was quite reasonable, endofthelane. I didn't read any "cheapness" into it.

I loved the show and didn't regret buying a discount ticket, which I think was around $79 and included the food and drink.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 5:51pm

Yes I saw it. Yes I got the last of the discount evening performance tickets that included food. I don't care about cheapness, it's the entitlement that I find annoying. Are you unable to look at the many mitigating factors that would make the rush tickets higher than those of an open ended broadway run?

Why not start a thread saying you thought the show was great and worth the 50 dollars? Sometimes in life we don't get to go see everything we want to see because we don't have the money for it. We have to make choices. We may even have to miss things we want to see. The prices are what they are. You either pay em or you don't. Most theater is not done on an ability-to-pay basis.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 5:56pm

Don't pay attention to that bitter b!tch, endoflane. I'm actually put off by the price of the rush because it is very steep. It makes the show seem like it's above itself by offering the rush at that price and then making the food/drink an additional cost.

Namo, I would love to know how selling at rush price means they're sold at a loss. If the seat wasn't going to be sold anyway then it can't be at a loss since it didn't cost them anything in the first place.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 7:54pm

Fifty bucks for a rush ticket to an off-Broadway show is absurd. Some might argue that fifty bucks for a regular priced ticket for an off-Briadway show is equally absurd, but that's another conversation for another day. The bottom line is that as long as people keep paying these terrorist prices, they will continue to rise and rise.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:36pm

"It makes the show seem like it's above itself... "

"The bottom line is that as long as people keep paying these terrorist prices..."

Fifty bucks for a practically sung-through show with a big cast in a lush environment where you can see where the money goes.

Honest to Christ, people, listen to yourselves.

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[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:48pm

Let me guess. You're a republican.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:49pm

You must be new here.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:53pm

I'm not new you moron. I've been on here forever. Maybe I just never noticed your dicky posts before now.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:57pm

I have expressed exasperation over the whining and the fact that entitled people can't seem to face reality. You have taken the typical fvckwad road of name calling.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 8:59pm

And you just did the same thing. Your "entitled" argument is typical Fox News bull****. I guess no one should see theatre except the 1%. All the rest of us poor folk will just go sit in a ditch and play with mud.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:07pm

Yes dear, I just did the same thing. Just as I did when I looked at your joined date and wrote "You must be new here." I know what I am writing and do it carefully.

$50 is not 1% theater prices, sweetie. $450 premium seats are 1%er theater prices.

The fact of the matter is, people have to make choices and prioritize what they are able to see. If $50 is too much for a musical performed in a sumptuous environment, it's hardly the worst example of american classism. If it's something somebody wants to see, they have time to try to save up fifty bucks, or maybe prioritize something else. One show charging 50 dollars for rush tickets, which the OP SAID WAS WORTH IT, is hardly the end of theater-going possibilities for the average theater goer.

And seriously, the whining! You sound like a spoiled baby.

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[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:11pm

Good for you. Your transformation into Fox News republican asshole into stark raving bitch was completely successful. Give yourself a nice pat on the back.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:19pm

Calling $50 "terrorist prices" is more Fox News than anything that has ever come out of my brain. But you know what they say about pointing a finger...

Updated On: 7/9/13 at 09:19 PM

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:27pm

$50 for a RUSH ticket Madame!! I paid that as the Ars Nova preview rate for the full show, including dinner, and it was hardly worth it. One tiny plate of rubber chicken for a table of five. Various sides, equally too small for five people. We walked out starving, and the show itself.......well, the atmosphere was fun. And there was one good song. Worth 50? Nope.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:29pm

Ahhhhhhh. So this is about so much more than $50!!! It almost always is, isn't it?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:34pm

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:45pm

Nothing new. Somebody's got a beef against a show and uses a tangential issue to pile on. Disingenuous as hell, but, this is the internet so what else can one expect?

[Kad]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:47pm

That must be so easy for you to say, Namo, as your sit in your plush 1% penthouse cigar room, making college students fight to the death for Great Comet tickets.

[endofthelane]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:56pm

This is a fascinating convo, but not really what I was posting about...whether or not the show is worth $50 (or $125, or $237.50!) isn't really what I was asking. I just wondering if by making their prices higher than any other show on or off Broadway, the show hasn't priced itself out of a large fanbase. I thought the score was amazing, unlike anything I'd ever heard at the theater (some songs reminded me more of Radiohead or Arcade Fire than musical theater), and it seems like it could appeal to a really broad, young crowd, like Rent did 20 years ago, if it were more affordable. Instead they seem to be going for the uber-rich, champagne drinking Meatpacking crowd. The night I went wasn't full, so they ahve extra seats to sell...and a lot of the crowd that was there seemed to be there more for the scene than the show.

Just kind of think it's a shame, I thought the show was worlds better than Murder Ballad or Here Lies Love, but it doesn't seem to be getting the same kind of fan following those shows have.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:06pm

I don't think, honestly, the $125 tickets are for the uber-rich. I mean, think of what a single ticket to an NBA game costs. Think what a pair of sneakers cost. Think what seats to a concert not in the nosebleed sections cost.

This show is a for-profit enterprise. It's not the Signature Theater.

Kad... you should see what I made happen for three Then She Fell tickets!

Updated On: 7/9/13 at 10:06 PM