Great Comet prices?- Page 2

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:29pm

The OP only felt the price was a little steep for a rush ticket (but conceded the show was worth the price). How can you possibly derive his/her comment to suggest they feel entitled to a cheaper price?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:37pm

You're right. I read the OP with the accumulated baggage of previous threads that all seem to have a fixation on the price for this one show, with the common thread that the cheapest available ticket is nowhere near cheap enough and there SHOULD be even cheaper tickets.

THAT entitlement.

I'm glad OP liked the show. I'm glad I saw it. If I had to miss it because I couldn't have gotten the discount, oh well. There's a whole lot of theater out there at a whole lot of, I hate the expression, price points and I am sure I'd find something else to see soon.

Updated On: 7/9/13 at 10:37 PM

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:38pm

Namo, did I miss your explanation of how the rush seats are being sold at a loss?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:40pm

Obviously, economics is not your forte. Perhaps linking animated gifs is a transferrable skill. Also, please don't go down the "I am doing them a FAVOR by taking the seats and they should treat me like royalty for doing so" angle.

[Kad]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:41pm

"There's a whole lot of theater out there at a whole lot of, I hate the expression, price points and I am sure I'd find something else to see soon."

This.

One show is expensive. They also give you dinner and a drink and a show that is being raved about in the community.

There are shows that are half, or a third of this price. Hell, many are even free.

You're not getting priced out of theatre.

You're getting priced out of one production that if you desperately, desperately need to see, you will manage to scrimp and save and bite the bullet for. God knows I've done that and to say I'm a 1%er would be absurd.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:42pm

Great explanation, Namo. Thanks for clarifying your point so eloquently.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 11:16pm

Here you go: You're paying a fraction of the cost of a ticket to be nothing more than a seat filler. Your presence makes it a slightly smaller loss than if the seat had been empty. And you always deserve to pay less than anybody else because you are special, even if that is an unsustainable business model.

That better?

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 11:20pm

Then they aren't selling them at a loss because it isn't costing the production anything to have you attend. It's better, just not correct.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 11:36pm

I don't think you understand the concept of profit and loss.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 11:43pm

I guess I don't. Nor would I care to. I'm just a big ole idiot.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/9/13 at 11:51pm

You do make that case very well.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 12:15am

Ha!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 7:54am

The $50 rush for this show is easily the best theater deal going in town right now. I've seen it a couple of times at full price and intend to go several more times at the rush price. And if you've seen it, you know that that ticket price is visible all over the joint -- in the food, in the drinks, in every aspect of the production, in the buttons, in the bread.

Now, if you want to have a discussion about how smart a business strategy this is for the producers, yes, by all means, especially since the show isn't doing so great financially. But to say that a $50 rush (even if you *concede* that the show is worth it) for a piece of theater this terrific is extortion -- well, you should have your head examined.

[jaxandmci]

Posted: 7/10/13 at 11:13am

Yikes! Complaints about paying $49 to see this show? Weeks in advance, foolish me paid $175 EACH for two prime seating tickets thinking I'd get two of the best seats in the house. Upon arriving for the 8PM show this past Friday, it quickly became obvious what a chaotic mess the seating was. Seats aren't pre-assigned at time of purchase and they just seem to wing it as people arrive. The manager told us they were having to do a lot of "shuffling" to accommodate all the walk-ins.

Don't be duped into prime or premium seating for this show as no one seems to know where those seats are. After being offered several cramped tables that would have required a lot of pivoting and looking over other's heads (no one--including the manager--would tell us what constituted prime seating), we ultimately requested a two-top located on the raised area to the right of the entrance doors. Comfortable with a perfect view! But I was steamed when I found that everyone sitting around us had bought discounted regular seating tickets. The manager--who had promised to take care of our drink tab for being such good sports--was nowhere to be found when that tab was presented to us at the close of the show.

Perhaps the seating fiasco tainted it but we found the evening very disappointing. The show was too one-note to keep our interest for 2.5 hours, but I suppose things could have been worse. They could have done War and Peace in its entirety.

Here Lies Love tells a much more interesting story. It's done with a lot more flair, and in a lot less time.